ive been wanting to ask this on your fish blog but asks are off there, what are your wildest dream fish? like if you could have any sized tanks without cost being an issue? for me its silver dollars and ropefish and pike cichlids with pearl cichlids . also hi :)
hi!! idk anything about cichlids other than that they're very pretty, so going off of that metric, great choices!! silver dollars and ropefish are awesome too!
for me it would *definitely* be betta unimaculata pair! i absolutely adore wild bettas and unimaculata are not a exception. i actually have a tank to put them in - but i can't do that until we move. it's a 75 gallon, and i plan on doing a paludarium type set up (with about 40 gallons of water space). i'd love to also have some dither fish in there, like some tetras or something similar, but unimaculata get so big they're liable to eat anything that fits in their mouth. but yeah, long and short, betta unimaculata!
i also really want kuhli loaches, they're absolutely adorable little goofballs and i love their little barbells.
a few others in no particular order are pearl gourami, trichopsis vittata, trichopsis schalleri (i'm a sucker for all three croaking gourami species), betta imbellis, and honey gourami. can you tell i really like labyrinth fish?
related, i would *love* to have my own business ethically breeding and selling bettas. preferably betta hendra, because i want to help with their conservation efforts and to keep people from buying wild caught. but i could also very easily settle for domestic bettas, as there's a very high demand for them already. i would focus on correct care and urge any buyers to educate themselves on the fish they want. if i were to ever have a store front, all of my display fish would be in their own decently sized holding tanks, preferably with unique aquascapes in each! the unique scapes would get people thinking of ideas for their own tanks at home! i just love bettas a lot and i genuinely want to dedicate my life to them :))
sorry for the long winded answer! i hope you got what you were looking for! thanks for the ask :))
