What would be your top 5 choice of Tropical fish?

So, in a similar vein to my other thread about your favourite fish, I thought this would be an easier question to answer.... Well, a bit easier?? Still pretty hard!

So, What is your top 5 choice of Non-Blacklisted tropical fish?

Mine.....

1) Emperor Tetra
2) Sturisoma Catfish
3) Apistogramma Elisabethea 'Super Red Belly'
4) Dicrosis Fillimentosis (not sure if this is still its official name? Think it was reclassified?)
5) Licorice Gourami or Blue neon Goby? Bit of a tie!

Regards
G!

 

1-Silver arowana
2-Thai stingray
3-Clown loach
4-Black ghost knife
5-Bala shark or Red tails cat

There are many other fish but all are blacklist in south africa

 

1- Discus
2- Emperor tetra's
3- Keyhole cichlids
4- Fresh water moray eels
5- Giant gourami's

Truly a question with hundreds of answers. I really love my malawi's aswell.

 

1- bettas
2- honey gouramis
3-rummy nose tetras
4-white clouds
5-bristle nose catfish

There are more fish that I like but I have not try them yet.

 

1.Kribensis (Pelvicachromis pulcher)
2.Apistogramma Cacatioudis tripple red
3.Spotted Climbing Perch - Ctenopoma acutirostre
4.Discus, spesific the fire dragon strain
5.Galaxy rasbora

 

1. Silver arowana
2. Asian red arowana
3. Gold arowana
4. Frontosa
5. Oscar

Dont think its possible to get the red or gold aro

 

Do you know of any freshwater stingrays that are not blacklisted?

 

@bmwkp check there is a thread about this.The black listed species are the easiest to keep tho.

1 Discus
2 Red tail catfish
3 All plecos
4 Oscar
5 Black ghost knife and Pangasius gigas , Pangasius paucidens

 

1. Uaru
2. Severum
3. Polypterus
4. Discus
5. Electric blue Jack Dempsey

 

silver arowana
altum scalare i think they called(real deal angels)
dunno if i can mention pirahna
sting ray
full grown tiger shovelnose

 

Can't mention Piranha or most species of Stingray... All BL!

G!

 

1. Oscar
2. Mbuna (Various Species)
3. Jaguar cichlid
4. Silver Arowana
5. Red Tail Catfish

 

not many lil guys on the lists hey
-betta splendens
-3 spot gourami
-white clouds (just started with these and love their lil tiffs between each other when they flick their fins)
-cories specifically the sterbai
-khuli loaches

but there are so many other species i would love to try! one day when i'm big and have my own place hehe

 

1. Panda cories
2. Stiphodon goby
3. Discus (Blues mainly and wild type)
4. Pygmy Cories
5. Pygmy Puffer

 

Ah! Stiphodon and Pygmy Cories! Good ones!

G!

 

there are quite a lot that are not on the BL actually
Unfortunately they are all the rarer ones and extremely rare to come by... Can buy them online but most people dont ship here, and if they do it gets real expensive...

 

oh yes and:
1. hydrolycus armstus - Vampire Tetra (the scomb, smaller species, is on the BL)
2. Datnoides Pulcher - Siamese Tiger
3. Caquetaia Umbriferus - Umbee Cichlid (if u dont know what these guys are, time to google it!)
4. Osteoglossum ferreirai - Black arowana
5. Bagarius yarrelli - Goonch

 

Okay thatnks guys for the info.
Interesting top 5 you guys have... had to google quite a few names lol

 

if you've seen a Red Tail cat eat something the same length and not much thinner than itself, then imagine what this puppy could do haha.. got huge teeth too..

 

1- black shark
2- tire track eel
3- uaru cichlid
4- severum ( deacon)
5- parrot fish ( soooo cute )