Let's find the Fugliest fish.

[fish_breeder_05]

And this.

frogfish??

 

[fish_breeder_05]

so far the only disliked ones here is the boxfish and the fathead or blob or whateveryou want to call it :laugh: :soda: :soda:

 

[DreamingAloud]

More info about the Prehistoric Monster Fish? Well, I can certainly try...

The article at Practical Fishkeeping that lead me to it:
http://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/pfk/pages/show_article.php?article_id=58

The Toadfish Wikipedia entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toadfish

Something I dug up from Google:
http://ichtyonb1.mnhn.fr/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=53559

A thread on them at FishGeeks:
http://www.aquaria.info/index.php?n...&t=44360&sid=4eb0c711e024e484b1e3e71baee04fc2

I get the feeling there'll be more gross-looking fish here:
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/

Sadly I don't know anything about them personally - my LFS is rather small (though they really know their stuff) and never carry anything as odd as that.

 

[Emg]

LOL...that frogfish looks like a fungus or something.....lol....

 

[patoloco]

Everybody has taken their best odd balls in this ugliness contest, and some other want to play poker.

However, the ugliest looking fish I've seen is this:

I could keep a horn nosed boxfish in my tank (provided It's behind a courtain, lights turned off and I'm wearing a blindfold) but never would keep a celestial goldfish.

 

[Emg]

Pat....I couldn't see the pic you posted.....is this the one ???

http://www.****************/images_01/goldfish_celestial_w250.jpg

What a STRANGE looking face shot !!

 

[graphicdesign_r]

Anyone find a good picture of hagfish or lamprey? Those are UGLY and NASTY (the hagfish eats rotting meat and the lamprey is a blood sucking parasite).

HAHAHAHA! Horrifying!!

http://www.uwlax.edu/biology/faculty/tyser/QME/files/hagfish.jpg

http://bio.classes.ucsc.edu/bio137/images/lamptongue.GIF

http://www.nature.com/news/2004/040705/images/lamprey.jpg

 

[Dangerdoll]

YIKES!!

 

[sublime1184]

I just remembered this one thanks to an old thread being brought back to life...
To me, the Black piranha is beautiful, but I'm not so sure in this picture lol

Black Piranha w\cut lips:

 

[reziztor]

Would that have been the Natinal Enquirer?

Hey, those carp with human faces are real. They have been bred here in Korea and I went to go visit them.

http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusives/fishface.html

scroll down, you see they are real.

There are many big lakes here with old, old Carp breeding ponds nearby that have these kinds of carp. There are many ancient legends about them too. What looks like the two front eyes are actually their nostrils.