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05-10-2004, 04:13 PM
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favourite fish
hi everyone im just wonderin wat everyones favourite fish are
i have a 2ft tank an gettin a 4ft an i wana no some cool fish for it plzz reply thanx |
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05-10-2004, 06:49 PM
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Well... I'll bite.
I've been encouraging ppl to buy rainbowfish recently. The species I mention mostly are: Boesemani, Praecox, Celebes. These would do well in a 55 Gallon (4") or so.
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05-10-2004, 07:10 PM
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[acronym:959730424f="Freshwater"]FW[/acronym:959730424f]>>>>I like personable fish.
Currently it is a toss-up between my graceful BKG and my wiley Betta pugnax and my polypeterus. My daughter it is the discus and the BKG. I also greatly like my striatus botia. If I had to choose just one? More pugnax. my son still loves his chocolate gourami. I like all anabantoids generally. For a larger tank I would talk biotope and then chose from there. Get one feature fish and select all tankmates around it.
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05-10-2004, 07:24 PM
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My favourite fish?
It would have to be my betta's, All of them. Whenever I'm near the tanks they swim to greet me, and even lay on the sand and just stare at me. My female betta in the 29gal did that this morning, and had the [acronym:8cec5531c8="Chinese Algae Eater"]CAE[/acronym:8cec5531c8] land on top of her and pin her! He got bit in the bum for his attempt to wrassle her. 
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05-10-2004, 07:28 PM
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My favorite fish right now are Badis.
jmaster999, you need to decide what type of tank you want: peaceful community, semi-aggressive, aggressive, one large fish, many small quick fish.... |
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05-10-2004, 07:44 PM
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I totally agree. I have all three. I particularly love the reflective blue on praecox rainbows. I also love German Rams and Ropefish. Ropefish make a tank so much more interesting and do fine with rainbows in the same tank. The only problems with them are that they have horrible eyesight and they are unbelievable escape artists!
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05-10-2004, 08:01 PM
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My favorite fish has to be the Oscar.
Totaly awsome fish with a great personality. But you caould only keep one in a 55 [acronym:379bc940d4="Gallon"]gal[/acronym:379bc940d4] tank.
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05-10-2004, 08:06 PM
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I've got to toss in my vote for Polypterus of pretty much any species.
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Loaches: Botia almorhae, B. kubotai, B. striata, Noemacheilus triangularis, Schistura sp.aff.nicholsi, S. vinciguerre, Sinibotia robusta, Vaillantella maassi Bichirs: Polypterus senegalus, P. senegalus (albino), P. delhezi, P. sp. 'Congo', P. palmas polli, P.weeksii, P. ornatipinnis, P. palmas buettikoferi, P. retropinnis, P. endlicheri congicus, Polypterus bichir lapradei, P. palmas palmas, Erpetoichthys calabaricus Anabantids: Ctenopoma acutirostre, Ct. ocellatum, Ct. oxyrhynchum, Ct. kingsleyae, Microctenopoma ansorgii, Mct. fasciolatum, Trichogaster trichopterus, Belontia signata, B. hasselti, Anabas testudineus, Macropodus opercularis, Betta splendens Catfish: Dekeyseria sp. (L-052)Sturiosoma panamense, Hypancistrus inspector (L-201), Synodontis eupterus, Synodontis nigrita, Synodontis brichardi, Synodontis soloni, Anaspidoglanis macrostoma Barbs/Rasboras: Capoeta tetrazona, Rasbora borapetensis, Labeo cyclorhynchus Tetras: Phenacogrammus interruptus Other: Xenomystus nigri, Papyrocranus afer, Pantodon buchholzi, Oxymormyrus boulengeri, Protopterus annectens andPhractolaemus ansorgei |
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05-10-2004, 08:16 PM
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My favorite fish has to be my Jacobfreibergi Peacock Cichlid.
 my avatar is a pic of him 
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05-10-2004, 08:23 PM
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Location: ohio
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ooh ooh! my favorite is definitly the columbian shark. these guys need a bigger tank, around 60 at least once they start to grow. and as they grow (up to 18 inches) theyll need a bigger tank. but they are absolutely the most beautiful fish, and such a graceful swimmer. plus theyre convinced that they arent really a catfish species, but they are true blooded sharks . . .well my noodle thinks shes a real shark at least. these guyz are soo personable! my noodle adores me, as i do her. she has different ways to communicate what shes feeling (do i sound odd? truly she does..
 ) when shes happy she'll blow happy bubbles at me, and when im studying next to the tank she'll sink down and just stare at me with her puppy eyes.columbian sharks are my favorite! |
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