Fish you regret getting rid of

[Taratron]

For a few years, I was on a damn roll with getting any fish that caught my eye. Black guppies, syno cats, tons of cories. I wasted gods know how much money on fish I bought, and then within a few months decided to sell, either because they weren't what I wanted, or some stupid excuse. Gone that way went the longfin panda cories, the syno petricolas, the black moscow guppies. The guppies, for some reason, started to die in my water; when I sold my last trio to a breeder, he has hundreds of them to this day. The synos went to a friend, and within two months they were spawning like crazy.

But those aren't that big a deal. What I kick myself over are my tatias, ones I sold last year, when money was tight and selling a few dozen of my blue-eyed ancistrus fry wasn't going to cut it. So I dug out my six adult tatia intermedia, ones I'd had for years, debated, and then sold the group. I was trying to save my L333 adult males and 6 juvies but they too went on the block a week or two later.

One guy got both groups, and he messaged me today stating that he is expecting fry from the tatias, as they laid a massive egg clump for him. I'm thrilled that we should, hopefully, have more of these fish now, but I kick myself for selling them. Should have set up another tank for them, should have sold something else, but so it goes.

But regrets aside, I did get my dream fish from a guy getting out of fish entirely, a trio of zebras. I'd rather keep them than any tatia and chances are good I can get some fry from the new breeder.

If nothing else I am getting the reputation for giving away extras when I sell, because the female Egyptian mouthbrooder was holding eggs when I sold her, the sterbai spawned for their new owner who saved the eggs, and the guppies, as I said above, are at nearly every fish club auction.

Still, damn. I regret the tatias the most.

[nvcichlids]

THe fish I miss the most are my L127's. Those guys were purchased on a whim as a "pair (meaning 2 fish)" of L127, shipped to me for a total of $10 (fish and shipping). Kept them for a while and after three sucessful spawns I sold them to a member of my LFC as he wanted to try to breed some L#'s. Well He moved away and I sold all my fry, so I am now high and dry and miss watching their weird backwards breeding in my breeding tubes.. yup, sure miss them

[racoll]

Many, many years ago I had a really cool freshwater Australian plotosid (

Plotosidae

). Never worked out what it was, but this was pre-PC days, mind.

Got beaten up badly by a

Synodontis nigrita

, and I gave it away. Why did I not get rid of the syno? What was I thinking?

[littlebristlenose]

L 014,L264 and L090 but if it buys a martal home??

Selling my orignal white L333 colony in 2002-3 this was first imported as L066.

[CanadaPleco]

I miss my pair of 12" L14's the most followed by my group of L200's Pretty common fish compared to some of the ones I have now, but I really liked them a lot!

[medaka]

To be honest is was only a few years ago, and I parted with a breeding group of Corydoras paleatus. I had this group for many years and the blue really shone, these also were the group that I used for the article;-
http://www.planetcatfish.com/shanesworl ... cle_id=100


But my biggest regret was many many years ago when I was much, much younger was letting go of a group of Corydoras revalatus what little beauties they were. They used to glisten like a piece of wet stone after it had rained, they didn't move around the tank that much and ate very little, I never once saw them eating. Maybe they were nocturnal feeders?. Nor did they seem interested in making babies
But, like I said I was much much younger then and it was a time when the world was not like it is now.

[grokefish]

Brachyplatystoma tigrigrinum

I have been seriously thinking o clearing my one remaining tank out and getting another.