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Is there anyone here who also likes fish/aquariums?
Would really be interested in your favorite fish that you would keep if money/size/rarity wasn't important.
Here are mine:
Would really be interested in your favorite fish that you would keep if money/size/rarity wasn't important.
Here are mine:
- Odontamblyopus/other dragon gobies (look at the face, simply beautiful, also very eel-like body - what's not to love about them?)
- Mastacembelus brichardi - blind spiny eel (they come from the Kongo and are completely white/blind, they live in rock crevices) - I like blind fish in general
- Xenentodon - fresh water needlefish (love needlefish, sadly most are marine, the ones in my country have green bones due to Billiverdin)
- Hoplias - wolf fish (very aesthetic looks, also capable of surviving in water with almost no oxygen due to acessoric respiratory organs)
- Thalassophryne - fresh water toad fish (they are from Peru, they are venomous, they have aesthetic looks and a special egg form for improved fertilization)
- Hydrolycus - vampire tetras (like their teeth/their way of hunting/killing prey, saw some of them as a child)
- Hydrocynus - tiger fish (probably the most beautiful jaws I ever saw, capable of killing humans even, some like brevis stay smaller though, some were sold once in my proximity, but they were juvenile individuals)
- moray eels
- Pantodon buchholzi - butterfly fish (they are absolutely basal osteoglossiforms, have the capability to glide/fly over short distances, have a unique look and can breathe air like we do with the swim bladder)
- various snakeheads (my favorite is probably the Aenigmachanna which is a troglobiont only discovered a short while ago during floodings in Asia, sadly they are all illegal in the EU, saw a micropeltes once, but it was only a juvenile, had a beautiful colour pattern that sadly gets lost in ontogenetic colour change, especially love the African Parachanna too)
- Catoprion mento/wimple piranhas (they are ectoparasites that eat the skin/scales of their victims, they are specialized in biting off chunks of skin/scales, they do it by ramming their victims, they also have unique looks, the Dimidochromis is also interesting because according to some it feeds on eyes, others say it only eats the eyes first because then the prey is then incapitated/blind/easier to eat)
- various knivefish (like for example elephant fish which are known for having the biggest brain of all animals relative to body size due to needing a very huge cerebellum for processing the electrosensory information, electrical fish are based in general)
- various others like fresh water flunders, fresh water frogfish, polypterids, etc.





