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my best one once had a freshwater sting ray and currently has a lung fish

My LFSes have those regularly.

There are a few species of catfish that I have seen only once over the past decade in my LFSes.

If it's a rare fish, you can sure as heck bet that my LFS doesn't get it. There are definitely rarer fish that never get into LFSes around here. However, stingrays and lungfish do appear every now and then; they're not extraordinarily rare.

Last edited by Shinigami at 06-Nov-2004 19:40

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I just today went to a new LFS that had, among other cool things (I had to run through, but this is what I managed to see), some very cool Tropheus (and carrying actual groups/potential colonies, not just the one or two you sometimes see), some cool eels, and - F1 Altum Angels! Very very very cool.

My other good LFS often has Glowlight Danios, Denisonii barbs, rasbora species I've never even heard of, and of course my (N)L. hecqui. Not to mention about six species of freshwater stingrays, Giant Gouramis, rift lake cichlids of types I never see outside online transhippers, etc.

Last edited by LittleMousling at 06-Nov-2004 19:40

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The rarest things I've ever seen at my LFS were some victorian cichlids someone dropped off (I think), leopoldi angels (once), green neons (once), and dragon plecs (several times).

My LFS's occasionally get in a few speicies of oddball plecos that I've never seen or heard of. They got in Hillstream Loaches once. They've got in tiny flounders. They've got a few Stonefish right now. They've had a remora. They occasionally get in some really weird or really odd fish or invert. Once an LFS got a Tigrinius in! It had really bad coloration, and it was only $20! But I didn't have a spare 180g tank laying around, so I didn't get it...

I guess the rarest ones we have are the contaminants that come in with already semi-rare fish. We keep them in our large bunch plant tank, where they are the happiest fish in the world (unlimited food, tons of plants, etc). All of the fish are contaminants or fish that people have brought in and no longer want. The stock in this tank is actually quite interesting:

4 Corydoras leucomelas
1 Corydoras trilineatus
1 Corydoras rabauti
2 Brochis splendens
2 painted tetras (one is missing an eye)
3 Gambusia affinis
2 unknown Hemigrammus species
1 unknown Rasbora species
1 unknown minnow (possibly North American)
1 neon with a missing gill cover (but perfectly healthy)
3 formosa killis (came in with ghost shrimp)
3 least killis

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well my LFS sometimes gets rare dwarf cichlids and the moment they have a batch of von rio tetras with screwed swimbladders
oh once 4 of my 6 black widows all lost their left gill covers- that was pretty rare lol

cfd

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One of the LFSs in my area (the store of the year 2004 in Tropical Fish Hobbyist) always has something I've never seen at other stores. Right now they have sawba resplendens which I'd love to get but have no room for. They also have a bunch of snowflake discus . Additonally this store is geared more to saltwater, which I am no expert in, so they probaly have alot of rare fish there.

well..i don't know if this is a rare fish...its called finescale tigerfish(coius microlepis)freshwater fish and they can get up to 45cm

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I know human beings and fish can co-exist peacefully.

There is one lfs about an hour away from me that often has fish I don't see in the other closer stores. Betta unimaculata, betta coccina, exclamation point and emerald dwarf rasboras, zebra plecs, glowlight danios, various apistos and killies (never see them at other lfs), red long finned white clouds, and more I'm not thinking of right now...maybe it's time for another drive

Oddly it depends on the area you live in...what might seem rare here may not be to someone else.

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my LFS has baracudas.

They also have had the stingrays, and that stuff.

one of the lfs by me had an elephant nose once. Also, the little LFS in this town has had polypterus (spelling) for quite some time now. I think those are pretty rare, at least, I've never seen them anywhere else.

Polypterids, tiger dats, discus...all common here....but, any species of betta aside from B. splendens is a rare thing.