What type of fish to you like to have in a freshwater tank?

I want it to be milkfish. I want to have a fish pond full of milkfish. Aside from the fact that they taste good, it sells good in the market.

I love arowanas! Kiwari is a golden red tail that we have....I like watching my fish glide in its 75 gallon tank....so graceful with its beatiful scales.

I would love to have some Asian Arowanas but in the United States of America they are not allowed because they are endangered in the wild. I am setting up a fish room with about 100 tanks fro breeding tropical fishes (freshwater). One of the fish that I will be raising to sell ate the angelfish, nearly every store will take some from a good breeder (as long as the stock is hardy enough and looks good).I will also be breeding some of the killifish and also some freshwater crustaceans like shrimp and dwarf crawfish.

I have a 55 gal. tank with 1 pacu in it. He has outgrown the tank though and we need a bigger one. I got him when he was the size of my palm and he just kept growing and growing. He loves to mess the tank up, dig out the fake plants, move the rocks, take the air filter hose off, chews up the plastic hose for another air filter. Detaches the heater...the list is endless!

I also have a 29 gal tank, but currently do not have it set up. I don't really know too much about fish and what can go with what. Seems like when we do buy fish they end up dying on us or one eats the other.
We use to have 2 oscars in with the pacu when they were small, but the oscars fought each other. Then one day one oscar died for no reason that we knew of and a few days later the other one died. We were thinking it was lonliness on the 2nd one, but not sure really.

I attached a picture of our pacu. I was told he was worth about $400 at the size he is now.

In the wild the pacus can reach over 4 foot long and they will eat most any vegetable matter that is in the water. their teeth are very sharp and powerful so that they can bite through Brazil nuts (which usually take some doing by man with equipment). You might be better off building a pond indoors for your pacu with a few windows to see in. There are too many pet shops that will sell animals (not just fish) that are not really suitable for home growing . Most of the fish that I am referring to just get too large to house in normal sized tanks and others are poisonous or dangerous in other ways (like the electric eel) Often when a fish is bought and not put into a proper size tank it dies a slow and horrible death. Fish are growing all through their lives but if they are in too small a container of water the inside organs will keep on growing even if the outside are not growing. this will stress the fish and lower their resistance to diseases. Other fish that should not be kept by any but the really knowledgeable and able to care for them is the fish that has a special diet such as fish that needs a particular king of insect or other food that is not easily gotten. A lot of pet shops will not tell you these things when you buy the fish but expect you to buy things to help keep the fish alive. I have seen pet shops sell oscars and guppies to go into the same tank as tank mates and not as predator and prey.

hi.. i really love goldfishes and guppies. they are tamed and they dont chase off other fishes in the aquarium. these will make it obvious that i prefer fishes with lots of tail...LOL... i love to watch it as they swim to and fro...

i have always loved fresh water tanks. they are better than marine aquariums as they are maintainence free, more colourful and more vivecious .the fishes are friendlier generraly.my favourite fishes are gold fishes,angels,discuses,loaches,mollies,swordtails,guppies.generally freshwater aquariums fishes are active swimmers so the tank is always busy with activity.