Well I started with electric blues from malawi then moved onto Australian
natives freshwater, then onto dwarf cichlids, from there to community
tetra's, rasboras and bettas, my catfish phase started and as they grew I
began to aquire south and central american tankbusters. Now I keep
cephlapods when I can as displays and Africans when I can't;
triops/mollies/electric yellows as a cash crop as well as a few
plants/snails I grow in my pond; most catfish serve a purpose b/n and L168's
for algae and tandanus tandanus and corys for clean up.
I work with fish all day and find that I only really keep my delicate or too
cool fish at home.
Sorta perk of the job to be able to set your favourite fish up in display
tanks.
heh heh
atm I am finishing a sal****er stingray and perch tank.
Have cresent perch and moses perch so far as well as a good sized flounder
and a few species of rock cod.
I think the challenge for me is to get a new environment setup and working
well.
The sorta thumbs up is when I have happy fish at the end.
But it can be a slash and burn method of keeping fish....... few fish
remain as favourites and it's hard not to feel like you have moved on too
quickly.
Fish that have been standout pets for me and that I reccomend anyone try.
Hoplo catfish, Borneo sucker, white knight (melanistic electric blue),
dalmation mollies, panda oranda's, riffle shrimp, orange cromide, scats,
clownfish, paradise fish, Nimbochromis polystigma, fossichromis rostratus,
bolivian butterflys, texas, oscars, moray eels, mangrove jacks, target fish,
chocolate cichlid, dovii, wrasse, octopus, blennys, gobys, altum angels,
cardinals, trets, brislenose, corys, rainbows, toadfish, sole.....
You can keep fish until you die and never run out of goodness!!!!!!
Besides it beats getting shot at for a living.
:-)




"Adam" wrote in message
...
I appreciate and love how everyone has their own tastes and opinions
when it comes to fish (and everything else for that matter). That
doesn't mean that I won't want to pick someone's brain when I am
curious about thier passions. I was reading about the upcoming ACA
convension in TFH and wondered why people love cichlids so much. For
that matter, why do any of you love the fish you do. I should preface
this by saying that I love discus and angels and a few other types, but
as for africans, I could take 'em or leave 'em. They just look like
'fish' to me. I know that may sound silly, but I am drawn to more
exotic fish I suppose. Perhaps it is because I have never owned any...

Personally, I like cat fish and small schooling fish. I also like
inverts. I don't know why. If I had a bigger tank, I would probably get
discus (for soem reason, I don't think of discus when I hear cichlid).
I bet some of you are rolling your eyes as I do when someone starts
professing their love for XX or YY. In the process of writing this, I
am now thinking I should go get some africans or something to see what
all the buzz is about.

So what do you like and **why**