How many species of fish have you kept over your lifetime

DrownedFishonFire

Goliath Tigerfish
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hard to remember them all from my childhood to now. Has to be at least 300 different species over my lifetime including natives. for current stock: roseline sharks, zebra loaches, angelfish, panda barbs, arilius barbs, golden wonder killifish, black skirt tetra, 3 different sp. of rainbowfish, Congo tetra, blue and red columbian tetra, blue eye daisy ricefish, smudge spot cories, napo cories, melini cories, L24, L32, L114, jaguar catfish, BN Pleco, fire eels, clown loaches.
 
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xenacanth9

Redtail Catfish
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My list, fresh and brackish water

CHARACOIDS

Paracheirodon innesi
Paracheirodon axelrodi
Hyphessobrycon herbertaxelrodi
Hemigrammus erythrozonus
Pristella maxillaris
Moenkhausia sanctaefilomenae
Hyphessobrycon amandae
Paracheirodon simulans
Carnegiella strigata
Gasteropelecus sternicula

CYPRINIFORMES

Danio rerio
Danio tinwini
Puntius titteya
Puntigrus tetrazona
Carassius auratus
Carassius auratus auratus
Tanichthys albonubes

LIVEBEARERS

Poecilia reticulata
Poecilia sphenops
Gambusia mosquitofish, exact species unknown
Xiphophorus maculatus
Xiphophorus hellerii
Dermogenys pusilla
Nomorhamphus liemi
Fundulus heteroclitus

LABYRINTH FISH

Betta splendens
Trichogaster lalius
Trichopsis pumila

CICHLIDS

Apistogramma cacatuoides
Neolamprologus meeli

LOACHES, CATFISH, SPINY EELS

Pangio kuhli
Pangio oblanga
Pangio myersi
Pangio semicinta
Sewellia lineolata

Corydoras pygmaeus
Corydoras panda
Corydoras aeneus
Corydoras paleatus
Corydoras sterbai
Microglanis iheringi
Ariopsis seemanni/Arius jordani
Otocinclus vittatus

Macrognathus circumcinctus
Macrognathus siamensis

GOBIES

Brachygobius xanthozonus
Brachygobius xanthomelas
Gobius bosc
Tateurndina ocellicauda
Gobioides broussonnetii

PUFFERS

Dichotomyctere nigroviridis
Carinotetraodon travancoricus
Colomesus asellus

TRUE EELS & POLYPTERIDAE

Gymnothorax tile
Anguilla rostrata

Erpetoichthys calabaricus

WEIRD/MISC FISH

Strongylura marina
Chasmodes bosquianus
Hypsoblennius hentz
Syngnathus fuscus
Pantodon buchholzi
Morone saxatilis
Leiostomus xanthurus
Cyprinodon variegatus variegatus

Will update if I happen to remember any others. Sort of lame list, but I'm kind of held back in terms of options. 60+ species overall. Toxotes jaculatrix is a species that may be on here soon.
 

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Alligator Gar
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Goldfish (comet and oranda), tetras, catfish, plecos, guppies, mollies, platys, danios, koi, oscar, rainbows, honduran redpoints, severums, blood parrots, acaras.
 
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TwoTankAmin

Aimara
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Fish I used to have but I no longer keep. I mixed common and Latin names (*denotes spawning in my tank):

Corydora panda*, similis* (eggs eaten), elegans, schultzei black
LF rosy barb*
Reg and LF brown and albino bristlenose*
zebra*, choprae* and roseus* danio
yoyo loach
L450 Hypancustrus*
L333 Hypan,
L66 Hypan.
H. contradens
P. compta*
DD black angels*
Farlowella vittata*
Rineloricaria parva*
3 strains of Montezuma sword. two spawned the third i could not get enough of and lost them all.
Siamese algae eater
Flying Fox
Harlequin rasbora
Pspeudomugil furcatus*and gertrudae*
Threadfin rainbow* (fry did not survive)
common orange swordtail
cardinal tetra
otocinclus affinis and zebra
P. Nicholsi*
discus assorted* (eggs never fertile)
A. australe orange
Betta splendens (2 male in sep. tanks)
Betta imbellis*

Fish I have now
Clown loacjh (some since 2002 or early 03))
Redline barbs (denisonii)
Altum Angel
tetras- Rummy nose, purple emperor
Orange fin danio
H zebra* (some since 2005/06)
L173* Hypan.
L236* Hypan., reg. and super white,
corydora sterbae*, paleatus* (eggs always eaten), albino aeneus
CPD
white cloud minnow
1 orphan goby ID unknown
cherry, blue and amano shrimp
assassin snails

I have tanks from 5.5 to 150 gal. Nothing truly monster. 1st tank stocked late Jan. 2001.

p.s. I understand the need for Latin in taxonomy. However, in grade school and part of high school Latin was a required course. I learned to hate Latin at a young age. But when it came to fish, "Veni, Vidi, Velcro"
 
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GoldfishAddict

Feeder Fish
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A lot for me.


Current only:


Tiger Oscar
Green severum
Gold severum
Silver arowana
Oranda goldfish
Calico ryukin goldfish
Nerite snails
Electric yellows
 
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fishhead0103666

Alligator Gar
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Honestly it would take me a good hour to compile a list of them all but the only species that’s important to me is Tetranematichthys wallacei/Wallace’s shoehead catfish. This is truly a beautiful species that doesn’t get anywhere near enough love in the world so I’m trying to breed it so I can send them all throughout the world so that others may enjoy them as well.
 
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MultipleTankSyndrome

Giant Snakehead
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Bump! Couldn't resist replying here.

Used to:

-Goldfish
-Koi
-Bluegill
-Pumpkinseed
-Yellow perch
-Common pleco
-Rosy reds
-White clouds
-Guppies
-Red tail shark (will have again!)
-Pangasius catfish
-Featherfin catfish
-Squeaker catfish I don't know the species of, that was not a featherfin
-Zebra loach (will have again!)
-Weather loach (will have again!)
-Yoyo loach (will have again!)
-Striped kuhli loach (will have again!)

Currently:

-Clown loach
-Pictus catfish
-Black kuhli loach
-Siamese fighting fish
-Bristlenose pleco (depending on how much mess this pleco makes, it unfortunately might have to be moved to the 'used to' list)
-Neon tetra (hopefully this won't happen, but neon tetra disease may move these to the 'used to' list)
-Green neon tetra

And this does not include 4 species I haven't yet kept that I will next year.
 
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Daniacat

Plecostomus
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Common goldfish
Betta
Blood fin tetra (returned)
Neon tetra
False Julii catfish
Peppered catfish
Bronze catfish
Otto catfish
Clown pleco
 
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