I Dare You To Try To Kill These Fish!

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[@KGTropicals]

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[@kurtvanzuuk1407]

I have had so many issues with guppies to , they are sick when we buy them so you can't not quarantine them they will die. I even had some spread a disease in my community tank and wiped everything out .

[@orangescalefishy1258]

are Kuhli loaches ok in hard water? I have water of around 17 dGH

[@michaelportillo5148]

Hello @KGTropicals I have been in the fish world now for about 3 years and just started watching your videos. I have a question. I have a planted 36 g bow front aquarium with a Fluval 207 canister and a sponge filter in the tank that is rated for 40 gallon tank. I have a heater keeping the tank at 80F. I do water changes each week and check the water levels with a liquid testing kit a few times a week. I would like to just have one larger fish in it and was thing about a blue jack dempsey. What are your thoughts and if not what is a larger fish that would do well as a single decorative fish. Thanks!

[@milkshakemistake6239]

Rainbow sharks are one on this list that I have experienced first hand their hardiness. Like 4-5 years ago I was moving into a new house, the power had been off for a few days and we went in to clean out all the stuff the people who lived there before us had left. There was a half filled, 20 gallon tank with murky water left sitting in the living room, we went to dump it all out and there was a single rainbow shark in there. I’ve had him ever since, his name is Edison and he’s what got me into fish keeping because I started doing reasearch on him so I could take better care of him, got him filter, heater, much bigger tank, plants etc. and years later he’s still thriving.

[@robertlewis78]

That’s actually sick asf

[@FierceSurvior]

Kulhi loaches. Twice when I was in high school my Kulhi loach survived two tank crashes where I lost everything else. I did the same that was mentioned drained the tank down to only two inches and left it for a week when I went to clean the last to reset the tank I found them in the gravel alive and well. Plus they have the cutest faces.

[@pollynicklas5220]

We had an upside down catfish that was bulletproof!

[@raifhourieh6038]

Me on the second hand bought 4 kuhli loaches that were very good looking and found them all dead the second day and every time i want to buy more i feel afraid that they might also die, you guys gave me courage now to buy new ones wish me luck.

[@_DROM_]

My very first fish was a burgundy beta. He lived for 4 years in a 50L aquarium with a couple of guppies and tetras. He left them alone. I let my brother name him. He called Lu, for Lucifer, and ironically, the fish was an angel! 😂

[@fantasyskeep]

Idk where yall get guppies, but here in Tampa, they are one of the most fragile fish and are pretty much guaranteed to come with internal parasites. I'd even suggest that guppies are best when kept by advanced keepers.

[@shanes-aquatic]

I love love LOVE Oscars. I've had one jump out of the tank before as well. I was trying to hand feed him, lol. An honorable mention for incredibly durable fish for this list, Convict Cichlids. Probably the most durable fish i've ever experienced.

[@PlainsPup]

I can relate! My Oscar survived jumping out of his tank; my rescued bettas have thrived; my rainbow shark survived for years; and my guppies keep breeding like crazy! Gotta love bulletproof fish! Interesting note about bulletproof fish, though: they still have vulnerabilities. I’ve noticed that, as tough as common plecos are, they are still sensitive to nitrogen waste in the water, which causes their fins to recede. As for goldfish, they’re tough, too. However, I’ve noticed that if their pond is too shallow, the daily fluctuations in temperature can be lethal.

[@luiscarlosherreramarroquin2065]

Red devils: though you were dead! Oscar: my dead was extremely....exaggerated

[@DahLekKnight]

I don't get why people say Zebra Danios are lame-looking fish, but to each their own I guess. I think they look cool because the resemble other big fish. The regular zebra danio looks kind of like a striped bass, and the spotted variety of the species kind of reminds me of a trout. You get stripers and trout in your tank! How cool is that?!

[@dirtdawgz8326]

There pretty fish for sure.

[@sandwichboy2511]

I think they call them lame looking because people nowadays all want crazy colours that look crazy in a tank.

[@Dhruv_Dogra]

True

[@elizaalmabuena]

And interactive. Danios are amongst the most likely fish to come over and investigate if I press my finger against the glass in shops, they also like following it along as I move it. They would probably respond well to marker training and be the kind of fish you can teach tricks to.

[@lilialorbey]

​@@elizaalmabuena its bc they typically associate human hands with food!

[@Jeswald1]

YAY! Bettas and guppies, my two favorites. I have a story about my common plecos that is pretty incredible; too long to post here. My local fish rescue (Ken's Fich Rescue in Lynn, MA, TY for your help) has more full-grown plecos than you could imagine. PetcoSmart often has people who don't know about their full size (or don't care) to dissuade people with small tanks from buying them.

[@Uathankicks]

I dropped my first order with you guys. Feel kinda guilty it’s so big but thank you guys so much 🙏 very excited for Lisa’s snails and Tropica plants 🪴

[@KGTropicals]

Thanks so much for the support!! You wont be disappointed when you see the plants and snails trust me!!

[@crystalgrzelak]

I bought a betta unplanned. I had just removed guppies from my 10 gallon into a 20 gallon. So I put the veil tail male into the 10 gallon until I got a 5 gallon cube. Well guess what he uses the whole tank so now I can’t imagine putting this little guy into a 5 gallon.

[@Whips_World]

I had a Rainbow in a South American predator tank for years. They don't have teeth. They barely have a mouth, and yet, that thing basically ruled the tank. That 8" torpedo would chase the oscars, the convicts, the Pike and even the jaguar.

[@BlackKoiRecords]

Top fish videos are back!!! In the words of Ice Cube, Today was a good day!

[@edmorris1437]

I think for many people, getting guppies that are hardy is much more difficult. I’m still trying to find some that are NOT riddled with Camallanus worms or don’t succumb to Columnaris bacteria after a few days. It’s not my tanks or my water parameters. It’s just tough to buy a fish that isn’t already dying.

[@Jeswald1]

My best success with guppies (and endlers) have been on Ebay. There are dedicated fish keepers (like us) who don't care about profit, they just want the fry to move out for the cost of shipping. My best guppies/endlers were "unsexed fry." They thrived and were gorgeous. The guppies I bought from Petco/Petsmart were fine for a few months, then started to become listless and eventually died. Who knows how old those fish were when purchased?

[@edmorris1437]

@@Jeswald1 Given that, I don’t think guppies deserve to be on the bulletproof list.

[@AnimalsVehiclesAndMore]

I have a few guppies in my fish tank, and they've actually bred and produced babies a few times. A decent number of those babies actually live in the same tank as all my other fish, and they're doing really well.

[@wanderingstar3255]

same with bettas...5+ years ago they lived 4-5 years, but massive overbreeding has led to very disease susceptible and short lived fish :(

[@DirkDeadeye_]

When I was like, 8-9 my stepdad had this old 6 foot tank at his parents house, sprayed it down and cleaned it, decided on a lark he wanted to keep fish again when we bought a house. Many fish came and went, but that pleco was always there. When I left to go on my own, it was pretty much his tank, he was a monster. I remember when we got him it was a tiny thing.

[@KCC22211]

Pleco and convict cichlids are my hardy fish. I was able to bread the convicts with an under gravel filter. 12 months later finally decided to do a full water change. Only to find several cichlids with giant heads and slim bodies.

[@braelynheltne6328]

I had guppies a long time, I was so careful and cleaned regularly, and they just kept getting wiped out by fin rot. I couldn't take it any more after a yr and a lot of treatments and finally gave away my last surviving one (of a final school of 9 😢) and moved on to platies. Yet my bristlenose pleco is still alive and well

[@memydogsandi]

I can't believe you guys are the Cichlid people and Kribensis didn't make this list! The last time I had a tank I had four of these guys in it. I removed and sold the fish, I turned off the heater and filter. I drained the tank to 2 inches (if that). Then the tank sat there for SIX MONTHS. I FLEA BOMBED the house TWICE in that time - no, the tank was not covered. When I finally got around to selling the tank and my friend and I went to drain and clean it all the way, as we poured out the last of the water a Kribensis swam out. It was a huge mad panic to get a bucket of fresh water and throw the lil one back into water....my friend adopted him and called him "nuclear" (it was a toss up between that and "cockroach"). Apparently, unknown to me they bred in the tank prior to being removed. This guy must have survived initially by eating his siblings. No idea how he survived the flea bombs or lack of water and food for the rest of the time though.

[@thraciensis3589]

I had a couple of Kribensis in late 80's. They had great personality. They were not too hardy for me. You were lucky, I guess!!

[@Amusementnational]

THESE KIND OF VIDEOS ARE MY FAV FROM U GUYS! 😊

[@Daz-0161]

PLEEEASE start making species profiles for all kinds of freshwater fish 🙏🏻🐠

[@jaxxonfishroom]

Great video 😊 mine would be Danios, Corydoras, Angelfish and Red Tail Sharks

[@wanderingstar3255]

agree with corys! had 3 that lived in an inch of water and no food for 3 months after i 'emptied' a tank and didn't realize they were still there! oops lol

[@bjjbrawler1]

I had a Khuli Loach hide in the sand as well for months. There was water in the tank but he only came out as I was draining it and scooping out the sand. I thought he must have jumped out but never found anything on the floor lol.

[@SlippyMcKnot8472]

I got myself a new tank and moved over an extra filter I had hooked up to my other tank so I could jump start my cycle. I just happened to be looking into the filter while I was filling the tank to make sure the filter started up. All of a sudden I thought I saw a fish in the filter swimming around. Turns out it was one of my Kuhli loaches. I have no clue how long he was in there, and thank God all the water didn't drain out while moving the filter over. Luckily, I was able to save the little guy. So for anyone wanting to keep Kuhli loaches make sure you have a pre-filter sponge on the intake.

[@KGTropicals]

Great story! Thanks for sharing! Just proving my point how resilient those little snake looking things are!

[@warpedlotus850]

It's really cool that a good amount of that resilience comes from these species evolving to "hibernate" through dry seasons by burrowing into the ground until disturbed.

[@farley2408]

Just got a nice red Betta in a 10 gallon cube.Tank is planted and looks like he is digging it.There is also 2 Mystery Snails and a Nerite snail too.

[@Breaking_Beard]

I had a 5g tank that crashed while i was out of town and i thought everything in it was dead. I unplugged everything and stopped feeding. I added some water with no dechlorinator just so it wouldnt be empty. 4 months later, I decided to clean it out and start over and i see a little pygmy cory swimming around. 4 months in the winter with no heat, food or filtration and the little dude is still swimming around. Promptly did a water change and fed him and he seems super happy

[@johncameron4194]

Hey Lisa for the guppies tru lowering the temp in the tank to make them bred less.

[@David-rx5eo]

Goldfish for the win. I have almost 40 goldfish in an old spa that my mom turned into a pond. It does get down to freezing here in the winter, and these goldfish have survived just fine for years. Unfortunately this year I lost 4 of them, because the spa/pond starting leaking, got tow low, an too cold. All 4 of those were small ones that I had added this year. I took all the goldfish out, put them in a 50 gallon container, patched up all the holes, jets, etc. on that old spa, so it no longer leaks. I have also added a heater to keep it a little warmer in the winter. That old spa/pond now has 2 waterfalls, a fountain in the middle, a UV light, and an ionizer to keep to keep the algae under control, as well as the heater. It as has a big filter on it. This pond has never looked this good before.

[@Razeredsaint]

9:36 that’s a majestic betta absolutely beautiful

[@Dhruv_Dogra]

Loved the honesty in this video. Lovely couple 😊

[@HeRo-qd6tk]

I missed those videos. Reminds me of my beginnings watching them all !!! ❤

[@johncameron4194]

Always love the lists

[@ccsorn]

Brother and I each had a 10g with a betta (10&11y.o). After 3 months, his tank was down to 2g and literally pitch black. I went to take his tank & was shocked to find the betta alive 😮. I took it and it lived another year.

[@bertsbooks2505]

Done well with Kuhlis, also pretty low casualty rate with golden eye acaras (N Anomola).

[@zanekrempel]

I did the exact same thing to a Khuli Loach with my first tank, cat played with the heater cord and low temps while I was out of town for the weekend killed the rest of the fish. Drained tank and set it in a back room for the winter till I cleaned it out in the spring, and what do you know, there was a Khuli Loach living in it still. It lived for years after that and survived a couple suicide by jumping attempts before I got a better hood.

[@ShamuAquatics]

I fortunately haven’t had an ich or epistylis outbreak in YEARS but the few times I’ve had it, the rainbow sharks and redtail sharks would be the only fish in the tank that didn’t have a single white spot on them. Very hardy fish and the only things I had them die from were the health complications that came from old age

[@JelloChannel]

Common plecos are like the superheroes of the fish tank, seemingly indestructible - I once saw one calmly sipping coffee with the goldfish and giving a fin-five to the algae eater!

[@GrumpyGillsFishing]

Things to consider Pleco - grows to big Danios - everyone I’ve seen local has crooked spines Guppies - every female I’ve brought home died from columnaris Oscars - too aggressive Betta - eh go ahead Loaches - don’t know nothing about them Goldfish - grow too big and produce too much waste Rainbowsharks - same as loaches

[@donnie8.12]

Goldfish are not only a hearty fish, but they're a hearty meal. 😂

[@Loveofpets]

Hi, I am a new subscriber and I am really enjoying your videos. Keep up the good work

[@spiritualspinster4222]

I vote for Ropefish. I had one for many years that got huge. I found him on the floor one day after coming home from work. He was pretty dried out but after throwing him back in the tank, by the next morning he was fine and lived for several more years. I love these fish!

[@littlemidwestrebornsdolls]

I started with goldfish then Bettas. I want a goldfish pond someday. Great fish that are nearly bulletproof. Gina

[@markmeador1137]

I have a farm in North zTexas. My son won a goldfish at a carnival. He decided it needed more room so he dumped it into our horse water tank. Two years later I saw this foot long goldfish. That tank freezes solid in the winter. We never fed this fish or anything. Amazing

[@KrockRockinNocks]

Goldfish create a type of alcohol that prevents them from freezing to death.

[@Mrs.WarmWaffle]

I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but I can't seem to keep any guppies alive :( I've had fish tanks for over 25 years, but all the guppies I've had dies. My cardinal tetras live and thrive, my ancistrus live an beeds but my guppies dies. I fed up. My parents had fish tank when I grew up in the 80's and they had goldfish with guppies in a 16 gallon tank! The guppies had babies. The tank was full of plants and hiding spots, but They had it for years. And I can't keep my guppies alive in a regular 66 gallon tank!

[@williamkoch9977]

I had a community tank when one of my sons was a toddler. He played with the dial on the heater and the water got HOT. All the fish died but one zebra danio. He lived for several more months although he never looked quite right again.

[@giftofthewild6665]

I have glowlight danios. They are pretty hardy. They survived columnaris and a weird fungal disease that killed my panda garras. Tough little fish and amazingly coloured (prettier than guppies). The only other fish in the tank is a lone rosy barb (last one left of a bunch of 6 that I bought). Not sure what else to put in the tank now.

[@williamblansett5786]

I actually outside the fact my blackskirt tetra stories can match the your stories about every other fish, I'm not very fond of the fish. But when I wasvkeeping fish I always wind up keeping blackskirt tetras. Tiger barbs seem to be pretty hardy too. Sometimes I would have tanks with blackskirt tetra, Tiger barbs, Common guppies,, three types of Danio , Khuhki Loachs and Common plecos. I found Covict Cichlids pretty much bulletcproof.

[@pokejuice1495]

Imo cichlids are very hearty. I have had small fish like tetras and guppies die for no apparent reason at all. For kids who want their first fish i would get a feeder goldfish. No big deal if it dies and easy to replace. My first fish ever was from the carnival and that what got me into the hobby.

[@QueAquatics]

great fish choices

[@sophistiq8ted]

My old store had 8 HUGE common plecos in a 75 gallon.. never did water changes and were basically swimming in their poop. I never saw any die. I tried to give them fresh water when i could.

[@falcolf]

The Fluval Flex 5 gallon kit plus a heater would be an excellent betta home!

[@pontiacw7]

Of all the fish i've had, i can't seem to keep Guppies. They do fine for a while, but one by one will die off. And Khuli Loach will do great for years, then all of a sudden they'll get covered in a white substance and if I don't catch it immediately and medicate them, they'll be dead in like a day or two. I had other fish in the same tank for many years and they get along fine, but I just have bad luck with guppies and loaches

[@benhopwood5321]

I had 4 khuli loaches in a 55 gallon planted tank with 8 zebra danios. I acclimatised them properly and the tank parameters were as close to spot on as you could get it but the khuli loaches were dead the next day. I was gutted because they are awesome little fish. I have a rainbow shark in a seperate tank and boy do they grow fast and i mean fast!!!!!!!

[@shibibi1]

You've convinced me to put an Oscar and Pleco into my bigger tank that's been sitting empty since I bought it. Ive always been a Nano lover 😂 Adore my khuli, Ember tetra and Betta set ups. I've had all three of those survive multiple home moves with things going wrong.

[@valrdjem]

I had a parrot chilid that took a flying leap onto a hard tile floor from about 5 feet up. He was stunned for a bit but then acted like nothing happened. At one time I had a birshir (sp?) and a jack Dempsey that were buddies and came to the top of the tank for pets. The only fish I have ever had that did that. I think they both were over 10 years old when I had to rehome them due to divorce. Hope they are still going somewhere.

[@Psalm13923]

Agree about the bettas. Love mine. They live for years. I can’t stand their small cups they are forced to live in. Mine is king of his castle in a 55 lol.

[@vistis1945]

The loach was like : "Here I am again FORGOTTEN"

[@missmiller730]

I JUST found 1 of my gold fish on the side of my 35 gal pond & he's been there for 2 days!! Fred survived on water splash from my waterfall. My husband put him back in the pond & Fred just swam off like nothing happened

[@akosmarton8339]

Well I bougth guppies from stores many times, and they just don't last over a month, BUT the fry came out of them seems bulletproof, and the guppies I get from other fishkeepers are definetly bulletproof. Which is weird, but this is my experience so far. Bettas are very far from being bulletproof. Bettas tend to get sick easily even if you treat them the best way possible. Plecos are great, they can survive everything, I don't have exprience with the other mentioned fish.

[@ccsorn]

Many guppies are from farms with brackish water. The fri born in your tank are born into fresh water , so they thrive there. Great news for us guppy lovers.

[@richardmccullum9604]

One of the best you have done.

[@LocalGuy83]

Im a serial killer when it comes to guppy fish. They are some beautiful fish for the short time they live. Pretty sure im done trying because I always feel bad when they die. 😢

[@ronthuomas7428]

I always had good luck with Silver Dollars and Catfish. My Black mollies never made it.Never knew why

[@andreashessler838]

Three words 'medaka rice fish'. Unbelievably hardy and virtually indestructible in a pond. I have them outdoors all year round lower than -5c and, sometimes over 35c . Every year there are more in the pond.

[@jamesnguyen_1]

Yep but they have a short life span

[@andreashessler838]

@@jamesnguyen_1 2-3 years is fine. Their lifespan is shortened by keeping them in warm tanks as it increases their metabolism . Same with goldfish.

[@muzchan2354]

I'm currently helping an old lady out. found that she has a fishtank and a seemingly pretty old pleco in there, plus a few widow tetras and only the roots and small living sign of some former plants. i did a little bit of research on the pleco and was wondering which plant i could buy for her tank the pleco won't eat. do you have any suggestions? she was embarassed that she only had a few fish left in her tank for her husband died and she was no longer able to go and buy new fish on her own. I got her a school of neon tetras and now she asked for some plants.

[@azurehanyo]

Plecos will eat anything that starts to melt, so try some hardier things like various javas and anubias that you can affix to drift wood. The drift wood will not only anchor the plants, but it will provide biofilm for the pleco to eat.

[@joeprovenzano4362]

I’m praying tomorrow when my betta shows up after being in transit for over a week that he’s bulletproof

[@Whips_World]

Not on their list here, but other fish commonly thought of as bulletproof are the Molly, the platty the swordtail and the ram. None of those fish are on Whip's bulletproof list. I'll kill them in months... if not weeks.

[@Razeredsaint]

2:19 some of them are tank size restricted. They will only grow to half the tank size. I have different size tanks and environments. 3:03 danios are awesome until they spawn. You will think you killed them. We had a clutch of like 15000 fry of glodanio. It was cool.

[@hulksmashxbox2909]

My guppies seem happy breed well, but i have been loosing about 75% of my adult guppies about every three to four months. Water tests fine, looks great, the shrimp and bristlenose all dont have the issue. Any suggestions? Symptoms are clamped fins for a day or two then laying at the bottom till dead. Ive tried a few different things but still had about 4 " die-offs" over the last year or so. Oh and all babies and juvenile guppies live through it

[@bige8397]

Texas Cichlids and Bumblebee catfishes are super hardy in my experience also.

[@JasPlun]

I have found Black Skirt Tetras to be super tough fish!

[@21CenturyBreakdownX]

You better have given that kuhli loach a proper burial when it finally kicked it. That's incredible that it survived lol

[@Dominic-qz5uh]

I have ordered from you guys and you are so kind always asking me hows my order and thanking me, no thank you!!!!

[@markpurdie7608]

Danios are so hardy zebra ones i got of a friend they were in a 3 gallon tank 5 of them 2 females 3 males she was sold them at pet store! I put them in a 15 gallon planted tank still fine 2 years later

[@lucashenderson6275]

Oh No. I remember i woke up by my dad screaming at me. He told my my 25 gallon tank had started leaking and 90% of the water was out. I ran towards my neighbor who had a 50 gallon tank. Then we filled it with water and put the fish in it for about a week until we found a new tank. A week later I realized my coly loaches were gone. I forgot them in the sand of the broken tank. That was 3 years ago( they probably ain’t alive)

[@Razeredsaint]

6:59 convict cichlids are almost bulletproof. I had a pearl big male die due to bad minnows.

[@Hanguanjun68]

I had danios only once.. god they are sooooo freakin hard to catch when there's a lot of plants.. oh btw i saw a pair of beautiful black baby oscars in my lfs today.. Edit- My lfs sucks tbh.. they put goldies with angels.. i bought a pair of beaten redcaps.. they have big patches from all the lost scales and their fins are ripped like crazy.

[@Sneltz21]

A few months back I heard a banging sound at 2 am. Didn't think anything of it. I came down to my office at 8:30 am to find my 12" oscar lying on the floor. He was very dark in color and felt really slimy. Threw him back in the tank and he was fine in 2 hours.

[@hsklaven]

I’m struggling keeping baby mystery snails alive. How to take care of the little baby mystery snails? How often do u feed them? New borns? Month old to two months old? How many days do u leave alga wafer in the water? Is Big wafer ok for tiny baby mystery snails? Or is tiny bits of wafer ok? I tried but they all died within a month or two. Do u do water changes every two weeks? How big of a tank do you need? The water level do they full or half of the water? Do they need a 20 gallon? Help! Also different note do plecos eat other community fishes? Or if one is sick? I can’t find my one tetra glo fish?

[@XBullitt16X]

I'm running out of space myself for my guppies lol, every time I think I have separated all the males from the females, I find spawn somehow from a stray male I didn't see soon enough .

[@bradmitchell1139]

Agree with all but the guppies bit may be im not doing it right but I've been in the hobby since 1975 ( first tank) to the present I've had fighters for 7-8 on 2 cases now that must be a record but never able to keep these bloody fish.

[@chrisvallejos6115]

mosquito fish from the tinny tiny stream near most of us next to the park or at the end of the neighborhood, super hardy fish and from experience of “taking a break from the tank” neglecting the tank for a few months, half the water evaporated, no feeding and they all still lived.

[@mmscannadinari]

Impossible to find in UK unfortunately

[@noturbeezwaxbeaulac1383]

I did lose a pleco, it was some 4 years old and not certain what happened, but I lost 70% of the fish in the tank. All had the same problem they started to stop moving kind of a slow paralysis, and at the end, they could only still breathe until hunger got them.

[@HAIZE419]

15:00 my thoughts exactly hahahha

[@yankeekev6733]

Guppies are ace I got them for about ten years now an all I can say is they don't stop breeding and there very good for a community tank

[@ryanthatpizzaguy5792]

i would change the title lol people take things too seriously, love the video!

[@jamesking3628]

😂yes!

[@jeffereyhopkins750]

Endlers are pretty bulletproof too.

[@top-hat-roach8116]

Literally, I can keep everything love, but a common pleco. Driftwood, veggies, carnivore pellets and so on. Yet everything else in the tank is absolutely thriving.

[@angiebear8727]

Had two for over 15 years. Got them before I knew better. Ended up making them their own 100 gallon indoor pond. I was actually sad when they passed. They do need lots of food, especially when they get big so maybe that’s why you have trouble, but unless you have a really big tank not a fish to consider if that’s not obvious

[@angiebear8727]

@@AnaNomas-gu9hi oh my goodness! That sounds horrific. It was probably the pleco hitting the lid n stuff. They are easily spooked sometimes and will move a lot faster than you’d expect. I have two bristle nose plecos in my 50 gal. I feed them algae wafers about twice a week. Have wood and lots of plants n rocks for cover. So far so good. One I’ve had about two years the other about 6 months.

[@kelvinemmons2448]

Plecos are kind of like sturgeon. They have no teeth, remain mostly on the bottom and basically have more like plates than scales. My parents had 1 that was about 12 inches and lived for literally something like 10 years or so

[@johncameron4194]

Guppies die fast. Once they bred you might be ok but they die off so fast.

[@jayferasaurus]

I can vouch for the pleco. Had one with an ex. 3 months after we broke up I went back to grab some stuff and the tank had nothing but about a half gallon of brown water and the pleco happy as a could be.

[@Whaleydavey]

Guppies are the fish version of tribbles. You could theoretically get millions of offspring with no end in sight.

[@jeremymoore450]

Hmm, I have had terrible experiences with Guppies I don’t know if I agree with this list. I can’t keep guppies alive no matter how good my water conditions are. So I don’t know where you are getting your guppies at. I stopped buying them because the genetics are so bad. They don’t live longer than a few months for me so yeah. I agree with the Danios. I have zebras and leopard danios in a 20 long planted tank and they are all over the place.

[@ObsidianXVIII18]

I had tank with about 6 danios in one of my tanks I had set up I was moving the tank and the danios when somone had rear ended me I though the danios where dead when I checked in them all of them where alive I was able to set up another tank for them and they all lived for a while

[@celticbarry9877]

Platys I feel are much more hardy than Guppies or Mollies, Guppys or Mollies I feel like don't do well in my water which is pretty soft, i've never bought many but any time I did they all died within like 2 weeks where as Platys don't and platys even breed and the babies survive and grow fine even in very soft water.

[@jamesbackyard7192]

I can pull up foot long plecos from my canal all day. Very invasive in florida.

[@squiddysan]

I'm sorry, but I have to be that person... I'm a returning hobbyist, cycled a 180L (47.5 US gallons), heavily planted tank (medium to fast growing plants), gradually introduced fish after cycle was complete - cory cats, cherry barbs, dwarf gourami as a centerpiece fish. Did everything by the book, checked parameters regularly with a liquid test kit, since it's a new tank (cycled, but not established). Everything was fine, so I decided to add some more liveliness to it. Went to my LFS, got a decently sized school of longfin zebra danios and 9 guppies. I originally wanted platies, but they were being treated for something, so I went with guppies. A week later, I'm down to 5 guppies, with another one slowly deteriorating. While, yes, it was an unfortunate case of cross-contamination with a tank that had a bad columnaris outbreak... It was also a reminder of why you should always quarantine new fish. I started treatment immediately after seeing first signs of illness (with what I have available, since.... Well, Europe.), and fortunately, the other fish are doing perfectly fine, but I'm pretty sure I'll eventually lose all my guppies. That, and your oscar stories make me want to get a big tank so I can keep oscars again 🤣 I miss my baby, he was such a goofball.

[@celticbarry9877]

I would definitely recommend platys over guppys or mollies as a colourful livebearer. For me they are the strongest of the 3, I have very soft water and platys do fine, live full lives, breed with fry making it all the way to breeding themselves and living 1.5-2.5 years where as guppys and mollies do not last a month if I ever get any.

[@donnie8.12]

You guys are awesome

[@CosmicCorals1]

My danios and guppies all died because of a small temperature strike.

[@deborahmartin5341]

I picked my Oscar up in front of my stove I had to take them back into the living room and put them back in the tank rinsed them off a little bit I had some hair on them and he was great no problems after that❤