so, I’m buying a house and there’s a small fish tank in one of the walls, it’s probably about 30″ square and about 6″ wide.
assuming I won’t be able to persuade the wife that we should get spiders or scorpions or an ant farm, what should I get?
I want something fairly easy to keep, but something that’s going to provide some entertainment – not just boring swimmy fish. does this type of thing exist? can I get fish that I feed other fish to, like you do with lizards? are any types of fish more active than others?
this may be quite obvious but I know nothing about fish.

I’ve heard Clown Fish are very funny.

boom tish

i’m here all night

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so, I’m buying a house and there’s a small fish tank in one of the walls, it’s probably about 30″ square and about 6″ wide.

Sounds like a nice plaice.

fish pie

a light batter and lots of vinegar 😀

Sharks with frikkin lasers on their heads.

oldnpastit -good call *bites little finger*

can you get mini sharks that will be ‘happy’ in a tank?

Phiranas.

Dojo / Weather loach is an easy to look after, interesting looking and often excitable fish, but equally can be quite boring.

How about some Pathetic Sharks?

I want this one
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM5wFSyRFTM[/video]

what about shellfish, can I keep them? like a big crayfish?
can I breed fish in a tank to eat? so I could eat one of them for supper on a Friday every couple of weeks?

can’t be more entertaining than this 😀 [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh7bYNAHXxw[/video]

Fish aren’t for watching.. dayforeating..

ohhhh choice choices….
Pretty fish or interesting?
Pretty any of the Austrailian Rainbowfish – personally I’d go for Praecox rainbows, alternative would be a group of congo tetras buy them small and grow them bigger.
Interesting – Candiru catfish is the one that swims up your japs eye in the amazon- no putting your meat n two veg near it though! Or leaf fish; looks like a leaf but eats little fish.
If you’re feeling adventurous a Sargassum angler fish – hours of amusement with feeder guppies…

that dancing fish is the solution to saturday night telly.

thanks magowen, the rainbow fish look like they could be the most aestheticly pleasing but I’m liking the Sargassum angler fish – I guess it needs a tank on its own?
I’m erring on the side of ugly fish that eat other fish at the moment.
is a scorpion fish a bit big?

You can do a group of sargassums they just need to be the same size (and I mean same size as the stomach can distend to about 2/3rds of the size of the fish)so I have tanks of twelve eventually reduced to one.
Scorpion fish are good if you can get hold of them – but you need to know what you’re doing if you haven’t had saltwater fish before (obviously same applies to sargassums). In terms fo size there are a number of species available and unless you can speak to the importers you never know what you’re going to get.
If you stick to freshwater then Birchirs are very cool but you would need to make sure they can’t get out as the smallest gap and they’re off. Ropefish are also cool.
Another alternative if saltwater is an octopus or cuttle, they just don’t live that long.