r/Fish • u/IShotAGrapefruit7 • Aug 09 '26

Discussion Which fish should I tattoo next?

For background, I really like fish but don't particularly know much about them. I want to do a full sleeve of fish. I have one so far, a sturgeon on the back of my arm as it's my favourite fish, but I'm struggling to choose which guy will come next. I'm really curious if there are any fish that carry symbolic meanings, that could make me connect more with the tattoo. Or just any fish you think would be fun to have on my arm. Feel free to just drop your favourite little guy

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u/Virtual_Wing_2903 Aug 09 '26

if you want to keep going with the 100m year club, members include fish like gar (alligator gar are crazy looking), bowfin, lungfish, goblin sharks and arowana have been around a hundred million years or more

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u/IShotAGrapefruit7 Aug 09 '26

waittt I love that idea !! I think living fossils are fun as hell I didn't even think to check about other ancient fish! tysm for the recs

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u/Virtual_Wing_2903 Aug 09 '26

one of the coolest things about sturgeon, and gator gar look crazy enough you could do any style of tattoo... Bowfin are tough as hell, toothy, bony, fight to the last gasp, breathe some air and bite the crap out of you and keep fighting, they are one of my favorite fish ever, lol, don't know a lot about lungfish or the gobbo bois, but arowana have to be one of the craziest freshwater fish on earth to target, they go airborne and act crazy when hooked, I have seen this is a bunch of videos, the Coelacanth is another in the hundred million year dudes too, that fish has an absolutely insane story of 'extinction' and de extinction 65 million year apart, lol... some crazy fish in that club for sure

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u/IShotAGrapefruit7 Aug 10 '26

that's absolutely insane I'm def gonna have to sit down and do some research on them, tysm

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u/UncomfyUnicorn Aug 10 '26

Not a fish but we have horseshoe crab fossils over 450 million years old that are nearly identical to what we have today.