Fish in lots of tanks you think are just ugly

[Marco S]

Porcupine puffers

How dare you! They are so darn cute. Them and Clown Triggers are the reason I went to saltwater in the first place and when I found out I couldn't keep either in a reef tank I was crushed.

 

[Goodair]

Very interesting how different people's views on this are!

 

[Hemmdog]

Eels

 

[Cassian]

pajama cardinal fish and yellow tangs.

 

[Cassian]

Eels

my grandmother hates my eels. lol. ive always had two or so in each of the tanks ive had.

 

[lion king]

Fun post!!!

 

[William Mumford]

Pj cardinal.

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

OK, this is meant to be fun. So no personal attacks. Just call out fish you see allot of and call it what it is to YOU.

For me, I can't stand Fox face, Cardinals or dog face Puffers.

This is all personal opinion so what one person doesn't like is totally OK.

Hornflower fish, fancy gold fish

 

[JMM744]

Got to go with fox face. None of the puffers trip my trigger either.

 

[CheckeredPants]

The majority of captive bred fish look like rejects that wouldn’t have made it in ocean. I know captive breeding is a good thing, but 90% of the specimens I see look like duds compared to their wild counterparts.

 

[TvanB1]

The majority of captive bred fish look like rejects that wouldn’t have made it in ocean. I know captive breeding is a good thing, but 90% of the specimens I see look like duds compared to their wild counterparts.

This is mostly due to poor practices from the ‘big’ farms.

 

[lion king]

Eels

I thought that for a very long time, then out of frustration trying to find something different for an aggressive tank, I got one. Now I just love them, fascinating creatures.

 

[lion king]

The majority of captive bred fish look like rejects that wouldn’t have made it in ocean. I know captive breeding is a good thing, but 90% of the specimens I see look like duds compared to their wild counterparts.

It is getting better, it was kind of like puppy mills in the beginning.

 

[Snookin]

I thought that for a very long time, then out of frustration trying to find something different for an aggressive tank, I got one. Now I just love them, fascinating creatures.

Years ago when I was in high school I had a predator tank in my room with a snowflake eel in a 37g tall Marineland show tank. During a feeding it came flying out the top and slithered about my floor with its mouth open. I put a net over it’s head and threw it back in tank. Immediately sold the eel and went to peaceful fish. That eel tried to murder me.

 

[Peach02]

sailfin tang not sure why they are so popular

 

[Hemmdog]

sailfin tang not sure why they are so popular

Which kind don’t you like? The GBR one is awesome.

 

[leedsrhinojohn]

Clown fish for me, I just don't see a point to them

 

[PYRU]

Blennies and the little fuzzy lionfish. I'm not big on tangs at all either.

 

[ScottR]

Eels

Oddly, my biology teacher in high school had an eel tank in the classroom that I loved. He let me feed it frozen cubes of fish. Then I went out and filled up a tank with ocean water, swam into water with a net and bucket and filled that tank up. So eels got me into this hobby - 20 years ago!

 

[Hemmdog]

Oddly, my biology teacher in high school had an eel tank in the classroom that I loved. He let me feed it frozen cubes of fish. Then I went out and filled up a tank with ocean water, swam into water with a net and bucket and filled that tank up. So eels got me into this hobby - 20 years ago!

Wow that’s a cool story! I think I just got bit one to many times by the moray’s when I worked at a public aquarium. Those things are crazy. I was just trying to clean..