What is the most intelligent freshwater fish?

[StiffMeister]

its impossible to know what the smartest fish is. fish mentioned above seem fairly smart but who the smartest is...

 

[Jesse]

Better include the Elephant Nose in this category also.

I mentioned mormyrids previously.

 

[Bud8Fan]

Sorry I wasn't familiar with their scientific name. Now I am.

 

[cichlaguapote]

id say its between puffers, RD's, and elephant noses

You can't really single out RD's as being smarter than any other large ca/sa cichlid.


As for who's the smartest. I say the one who was never caught out of the river. But that kinda goes along with what oddball said.

 

[RedDevilDon2005]

thats a good point

 

[shallow]

black ghost knife id say or at least smartest fish i've seen

 

[cbfreder]

its impossible to know what the smartest fish is. fish mentioned above seem fairly smart but who the smartest is...

I'm with stiff, intelligence is far to difficult to define within our species. There is no way we compare intelligence between animals that are so different from each other.

Brandon

 

[guppy]

i'm just wondering

The one that hasn't been caught yet.

 

[Burtess]

The one that hasn't been caught yet.

I guess that rules out this one :

But some fish are difficult to catch not because they are intelligent, but because they have different feeding habits that make them hard to catch. Grass carp are an example, they feed mainly on vegetation and are not usually caught by hook and line.

Burt

 

[T]

w0w great catch on that one. is that a grass carp? hahah i wantone in my tank!