What Fish Really Are Impossible To Kill!

[FishRfine]

lungfish, celocenths, koi (NOT GOLDFISH) and pacu are really impossible to kill. (I say celocenths simply because they have been around for millions and millions of years)

 

[severum boy]

lungfish, celocenths, koi (NOT GOLDFISH) and pacu are really impossible to kill. (I say celocenths simply because they have been around for millions and millions of years)

Good point, lungfish and ceolanths (no one knows how to spell it) can go on the list.
However, why not goldfish?


Also sounds like Kribs have quite a lot of evidence going for their survival.

 

[cheesy feet]

Koi need clean water.Without they can die..

 

[mlawson]

Desert Goby, Chlamydogobius eremius

Desert gobies can tolerate temperatures ranging from 41 to 104 degrees Farenheit, they can live in pure freshwater up to a salinity as high as 60 ppt thats TWICE marine salinity. They have been found in oxygen concentrations as low as 0.8 mg/l. Also can tolerate a PH between 6 and 9!

surley no other fish can boast things like these!

They're certainly hardy fish, the only problem is they're seasonable and will die after 2-3 years.

 

[wendywc]

Of the fish that I've own, bettas and plecos (except for otos).

 

[dwarfgourami]

Judging from the posts we get on this forum, zebra danios certainly don't deserve a place on this list. And platies I have found very weak lately, also mentally weak- easily stressed, will lie down and die after a bad shock. My portholes seem quite tough as livebearers go, but you have to remember these fish are designed to live (fairly) briefly and intensively; I am not expecting them to outlive me.
I have been impressed by the goldfish I've been looking after lately- back eaten by tadpoles down to the vertebrae of the spine and has now made a full recovery, but I wouldn't say they're impossible to kill: my mother-in-law used to keep them in a goldfish bowl and thought she did ever so well because they lived a year or two....

 

[severum boy]

Judging from the posts we get on this forum, zebra danios certainly don't deserve a place on this list. And platies I have found very weak lately, also mentally weak- easily stressed, will lie down and die after a bad shock. My portholes seem quite tough as livebearers go, but you have to remember these fish are designed to live (fairly) briefly and intensively; I am not expecting them to outlive me.
I have been impressed by the goldfish I've been looking after lately- back eaten by tadpoles down to the vertebrae of the spine and has now made a full recovery, but I wouldn't say they're impossible to kill: my mother-in-law used to keep them in a goldfish bowl and thought she did ever so well because they lived a year or two....

Good points, I dont think anything as mass produced as zebra danios can really be called 'Impossible to kill'. I know a few friends who have had average success, but despite what I have heard about their breeding, none I know has actually bred them. But if there was a way to get some wild danios and breed them with a controlled breeding standard, they would im sure, be as hardy as people say they are.

Wheras Goldfish, must be hardy to live stunted in the terrible conditions that people keep them in, even for very short amounts of time. Most importantly, they survived the journey to England when they were first imported hundreds of years ago. They were then kept in unheated (no problem as far as goldfish are concerned), un-filtered tanks and fed grossly unsuitable foods by their aristocratic owners.

 

[dwarfgourami]

Wheras Goldfish, must be hardy to live stunted in the terrible conditions that people keep them in, even for very short amounts of time. Most importantly, they survived the journey to England when they were first imported hundreds of years ago. They were then kept in unheated (no problem as far as goldfish are concerned), un-filtered tanks and fed grossly unsuitable foods by their aristocratic owners.

Still, my mother-in-law managed to kill hers off after only a fraction of their natural lifespan Just shows anything is possible if you really try.

 

[TammyLiz]

I have found white clouds to be very very hardy. When I was a kid my little sister had two in about a gallon of water in a terrarium set up for a frog. They lived there with no filter and no water changes. And lived and lived, and bred. She had a zillion little dots swimming around with their parents in that nasty dirty frog water. Then she overfed them with that powdered fry food. Somehow after all that a few of the fry actually survived to adulthood, looking as healthy as can be. I find that pretty unbelievable.

severum boy...it is possible to get wild danios here

but I see you're not in the US. I'm sure someone over there could order from his same supplier, though. You can probably get them there, too.

I've found zebra danios to be semi-hardy but not as much as white clouds.