Your top ten species

[dixaisy930]

I love this question because I'm always wanting a new, unique fish, but rarely have the room...I could have a hundred 200 gallon tanks, and still lack room for all of the fish I want.

1. Peacock gobies - pretius gobiea
2. Pygmy cories - smalious cordaydos
3. Red devil - meenious bigous cichlid
4. Piranahs - cutiosbutis meenious pirannah
5. Khuli Loachs - coolious loachious
6. Angels - sweetious fishiois
7. Hi fin rams - primadonius hifinish
8. Pencilfish - skinies writius
9. Marbled hatchetfish - wingious bellios
10. Cherry shrimp - doomious inpufferous tankous

(I needed to feel smart and special, so I just made up the scientific names) )

 

[rain-]

Bettas. I love them and their variety.
Congo Tetra. Amazing creatures, they look so awesome in a large tank.
Green Neon Tetra - Paracheirodon simulans. These small tetras are pretty, so pretty.
Ember Tetra - Hyphessobrycon amandae. Same as above.
Pygmy Hatchet Fish - Carnegiella myersi. Small, fascinating and active.
Flagtail Cory - Corydoras robineae. They are so lovely.
Pygmy Cory. What can I say. They act like tetras, breed like cories and hae taken hold of my heart.
Coolie Loach. Wiggly, beautiful and their breeding habits are kewl.
Otocinclus. Breed like cories, clean everything. Who wouldn't love them.
Wild caught Rio Tefé Discus. You know. Best in the world.

They are the ones I've always loved.

 

[strangemouse]

Oo thats so difficult, glad you added freshwater, I can leave out my brackish favourites

1. Giant Gourami (Osphronemus gorami) just fell in love with these, theres a big one called Betty at my local LFS and I'd love raise a baby up one day =sigh=

2. Leiarius pictus - they seem such great characters and beautiful too

3. Hoplias malabaricus

4. Osteoglossum bicirrhosum

5. Clown Knifefish (Chitala chitala) Hard to choose between Clown and Royal knifefish but I think the Clown has it for me.

6. Leporinus fasciatus

7. Midas Cichlid (Amphilophus citrinellus) breeding pair!

8. Altolamprologus calvus 'Black'

9. African Lungfish Protopterus annectens

10. Polypterus but cant decide which one in particular

So many other cichlids I could add! and all those smaller fish, but tanks no object think I would have to go with the big boys!

 

[clutterydrawer]

2. Pygmy cories - smalious cordaydos

haha you were nearly right with that one, its real name is Corydoras Pygmaeus.

 

[The-Wolf]

Ok CFC asked for it so here goes

Danio regina
Devario devario
Devario maetaengensis
Devario pathirana
Devario shanensis
Danio fraseri
Devario acuticephala
Danio roseus
Danio hikari
and Danio erythromicron

There we go as if you lot didn't guess.

 

[Dwarfs]

1. Mogurnda mogurnda, so friendly and cool
2. Severum, very responsive
3. Senegal bichir, again, owner friendly
4. Badis badis siamensis, mean little tyrants
5. Geophagus surinamensis, I love my little guy, so much personality
6.Ropefish, they're interesting fish
7.Euctenogobius badius, a cool goby I'm looking for
8. Desert goby, another goby I'm looking for
9. Honey gouramis, for some odd reason, I like them
10.Dwarf puffers, They sound so cool but I CAN'T FIND ANY!!!

 

[jasmine]

1 Red tail catfish
2 Clarius
3 A huge shoal of cardinals (Would look stunning)
4 Clown loaches
5 Zebra plecos
6 Lemon cichlids
7 Golden severums
8 Koi angels
9 pirahnas
10 Gold nugget plecos

 

[candy]

im not going to put the proper names as i cant spell half of them and it would take u all a few hours to figger out what im on about..also i might spell things wrong so forgive me ( typing in bed on laptop)

1.bala sharks- a huge school of them would be so nice to see thay are so beautiful
2.snake head- i think thats what they are called..they grow so huge and i love reading about them
3.oscars- i love there personality
4.clown knife-oh so sexy and so much fun to feed
5.black ghost knife- so cute and fun to watch
6.upside down catfish-a school of them would be so cool
7 amazon butterfly fish-got to love them
8 royal knife- to bad nz dont have them ( have seen one once in real life)
9.common pleco-they grow so huge and i love my little guy
10.VT betta- i dont know why but i love them...

yup there is my list wish i could have them all..i think im going to have to marry some one rich and who loves fish and horses..

 

[White Whale]

I would have two types of tanks - Predator and Community

The Predator Tank: (large)
Pseudoplatystoma fasciatum (Tiger Shovelnose Catfish)
Ctenolucius hujeta (Freshwater barracuda)
Hoplias malabaricus (Wolf fish)
Polypterus delhezi (Armoured bichir)

The Community Tank: (long) (heavily planted)
Otocinclus affinis (Dwarf suckermouth catfish)
Microgeophagus ramirezi (Ram cichlid)
Apistogramma cacatuoides (Cockatoo dwarf cichlid)
Nannostomus espei (Espei's Pencilfish) (very rare)
Paracheirodon axelrodi (Cardinal tetra)


Personal:
Betta imbellis/smaragdina/mahachai (Siamese Fighting Fish in its original form): I would like to raise a "purebred" species of betta since the lines are becoming crossed so much these days.