Hardest Tropical Fish To Keep

[scott133]

as it says what is the hardist tropical fish to keep
thanks scott

 

[mike os]

hardest,,,,, depends on how good you are....

 

[fifefish]

arowana?

 

[Honeythorn]

They say Chocolate gouramis are pretty hard to keep due to being so sensetive.

 

[oscars r ace]

They say Chocolate gouramis are pretty hard to keep due to being so sensetive.

hmmm that explains it then, i was at a lfs yesterday, and overheard them saying they were getting chocalate gouramis in and one was saying get 12 the other saying 20 and then going on about totally cleaning the tank out and putting new bogwood in and stuff and i thought surley they don't goto all that trouble everytime they get new fish in i guess thats why.

 

[mike os]

aro's are easy,

chocolate gourami are quite hard... but once they settle are OK , as are U fernandezyepezi, P altum, S discus, quite a few of the "new" dwarf cichlids coming into the hobby are a little tricky too.

 

[kribensis12]

I hate to say it, but guppies are pretty difficult to keep. I swear, no matter hard I try to keep them, they die. I bought 5 at a Auction yesterday, and they already don't look to hot ( yes, I acclimated them).

 

[kevinthecow]

I hate to say it, but guppies are pretty difficult to keep. I swear, no matter hard I try to keep them, they die. I bought 5 at a Auction yesterday, and they already don't look to hot ( yes, I acclimated them).

I second his reply. ):

I'd rather have Chocolate gouramis then guppies.
Man, they keep dying on me. I remember my first guppies. Died within a week, nothing went wrong with the others. they were happily swimming.
and from that day on I never bought guppies again. I despise my friend that has guppies. ):

 

[Spishkey]

i have to third guppys! i have nothing but trouble with them really. i bought iver 50 spread out over last year, i have just 6 males and 2 females left! lots of babies every few weeks but none seem to make it over 3 months
should add put of that (0 only 2 were lfs bought all the rest was various private breeders.

 

[LauraFrog]

I fourth! It's due to the outrageous amount of inbreeding that has been done to achieve their fancy strains.

Hillstream loaches have gotta be pretty hard... you've got to have really, really oxygenated water for them to thrive. Sewellia species... OMG I would love some.

 

[oscars r ace]

i bought guppys in december, 7 of them, they attacked my other fish, i got a spare tank from my dads house, filled it up with luke walm water chased them round the tank with my tiny net, when i caught them chucked them into this newly setup tank, about 10 mins old and they all survived, a bit later i found a beautiiful little south american puffer, i bought him but had heard that they can be nippy so i put them in with the guppys, the guppies were attacking th puffer, no the other way around, i hate guppys i will never buy them again!!!!!! oh, i ended up taking them back to lfs

 

[JmeSomers]

I have been talking to my LFS and he said that discus fish were hard to keep. That they are extremely sensitive to chlorine and often if you are on a water scheme that your city counsil will test the water and often add more chlorine from time to time. You just have to really monitor the chlorine levels before doing water changes. Sometimes if you write to your city counsil, they will send you a letter and let you know when they plan to add more... but if they don't and you rely on it... your fish are doomed!

I have no problems keeping guppies... except for the fact that mine is extremely aggressive. Which I never knew that they could be. He is now in the "bold corner" and seperated from the rest of the tank mates. He was picking at my swordtail so much the swordtail now looks like it is waddling more than swimming. My LFS said that he would exchange the guppy for a new one since he is causing so many problems. Just a shame because he is a good size and beautiful.

 

[dave_oddballs]

i have a goldring butterfly loach (hillstream loach) in my snakehead tank, with next to no water movement and no aeration and is extremely lively and healthy dont do anything different for it just chuck in a block of bloodworm and some lance fish and cockles! i dont think discus are hard to keep, my girlfriend has them in a comunity tank with allsorts and her tank has definately had a few upos and down and the discus are still there. guppies are definately not difficult to keep! the reason people say they die is because more often than not the only people that like and buy guppies are people that are just starting out, like the look of them and chuck em in! in which case most fish wouldn't last long. my main tanks are the snakehead tank and the oddball community but the snakeheads pretty much look after themselves and the hardest fish to keep happy in the big tank are the pink tailed chalceus and the hujeta gars but once settled they are pretty easy, also have 3 chocolate gouramis in a community (previously 4) not bad 1 loss in 8 months, and that died shortly after arrival, once settled they get stuck in with the other fish!
id probably be swayed towards saying fish like rays etc would be quite difficult, but dont no as i havent kept them!

David

 

[Amunet]

I have no idea what the hardest is...
I have to chime in on hillstream loaches though. We had one and it was such a great little fish. Our water was pretty well oxygenated due to 3 filters in it at the time, so that wasn't a problem. It did die though (along with 1 other fish) due to a problem with the pH dropping. It was a very easy fish to take care of though.

As for guppies... think ppl say they're hard to keep b/c it seems a lot of them aren't exactly the hardiest of fish due to the inbreeding and such. We have 4 males that are doing alright in our 29gallon tank. 2 of them have those big fancy tails so they don't swim very well. If we ever get more, I'll definitely only be getting ones with the shorter tails.

 

[DiscusKeeper403]

No fish is really "hard" so to speak, it might just take more effort to meet the need of the fish.


I would say Discus and Ram can take more effort. Any wild fish who is finicky with water stats will also take a little more effort.