I need the names of the most exotic freshwater fish you can think of.?

looking to start a fish tank with exotic and rare fish. i want an idea of what to get, the odder the better.

I need the names of the most exotic freshwater fish you can think of.?
Some strains of Asian Arowanas (Scleropages formosus) are priced up to $50000. They are CITES animals and completely prohibited for import into the USA, even if they were bred legally.





Some wild collected discus can be extremely expensive too.





But if you mean something bilogically exotic, look at the blind fishes, they are discovered among characins, cichlids, gobies, so on. In the USA there catfish Satan eurystomus, living in arthesian wells. Some other blind fishes live in caves.





However all these fishes are not sold in the local shops.





If you want something more easily to obtain, you can try with electric knives, Borneo suckers, freshwater glass eels, hatchetfishes, daemon cichlids, so on. All they are real weirds :)
Reply:while freshwater glass eels are scared, they bury into gravel, and do that tail ahead! Spiny eels (Mastacembelus, Macrognathus, so on) also can hide in the gravel, but they sank into the sand head forward :) Report Abuse

Reply:My favorite oddity fish are African Butterfly Fish.
Reply:the oddest?


Freshwater river shark, paradice threadfin, FW sawfish, duck billed knifefish.


The knife runds about 700


Threadfins are almost impossible to keep alive


and the FW shark and sawfish both go for well over 150k
Reply:Fish can run into the thousands of dollars. Try starting with something affordable if it is your first try at it!!! I made some bad expensive choices in my start up and learned a lesson. Exotic doesn't mean it has to be expensive. Try a ghost fish, a red tailed shark, or like I found, an albino algae eater. GOOD LUCK!!!!
Reply:A motoro ray perhaps...?? There are several types of freshwater rays out there...
Reply:A Garr is one of the freakyist fish I can think of. I use to have piranha...strange little fish and agressive when you have several like I did. Oh another great fish is an Arowana, you don't see them very often.
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