Hardiest Fish

[Eelzor]

Sorry if im totally off with this question just wanted to know, Are Goldfish (Comets & Shubunkins) the hardiest fish in the world?

 

[infant340]

i dont hink thy are actually i think they re one of the easiest fish becasue they are so hardy. i think th haredst one is the neon tetras IMO.

 

[Alien Anna]

What do you mean by "hardy"? No fish is invincible and fish, like people, are all individuals.

I find black neons pretty well unkillable, but maybe that's just my experience. Danios as supposed to be hardy but I know someone that killed all of hers off (in an un-cycled tank). Pencilfish and rummynosed tetras are supposed to be delicate, but mine are tough as old boots. Cardinals are supposed to be quite hardy but I always seem to kill off about 50% of the ones I buy.

A more significant question is: why do you want to know?

 

[AquaNut]

I don't actually think neons are very hardy. Golden barbs and tiger barbs both seem super tough to me. I would imagine it has a ton to do with your water conditions. A fish that might be extraordinarily hardy in soft, acidic water might not last a week in hard, alkaline water and vice versa. I've also found danios and cories to be super hardy, yet many say cories are delicate. I actually found an opaline gourami on my living room floor one time. He'd been there long enough to get somewhat dried out and he looked pretty dead. I put him back in the tank; he sat on the bottom for a while, but he's swimming around happily as I type this, and that happened a couple of years ago.

 

[Starfish]

i think th haredst one is the neon tetras IMO.

You have gotta be kidding? Neons are one of the most fargile FW fish about.

 

[knutty]

i used red velvet swordtails to cycle my tank. that was many moons ago. they are still in my tank and very happy. i dig em.

 

[guppymonkey]

Most of the common livebearers are hardy. Swordtails and Platies are (in my opinion) some of the hardiest fishies. Guppies can be very hardy but some are delicate because of specialized inbreeding to create certain strains. Many of the gouramis are delicate and most of the ones I have tried ended up dying from stress. Bettas can be super hardy from my experience with them but not when put in a tank with tetras or other fin nippers. It really all boils down to what kind of fish you want and what kind of water you want to put them in.

 

[CFC]

You want a hardy fish try snakeheads, theyre almost impossible to kill no matter what the water conditions. In the wild these fish can live in water so polluted that nothing else can live there as like bettas and gouramis they have a labyrinth organ which allows them to breathe air and if the going gets really tough they just get up and walk across land to another pond or stream.

Another one would be the climbing perch, these fish are so hardy that they were one of the few tropical fish that could survive the long trip back to europe from asia by sea as long ago as 1870!!! They can even survive out of water for up to two days and are often found high up in trees, where they have climbed themselves!!!!!

 

[Alien Anna]

Another one would be the climbing perch, these fish are so hardy that they were one of the few tropical fish that could survive the long trip back to europe from asia by sea as long ago as 1870!!! They can even survive out of water for up to two days and are often found high up in trees, where they have climbed themselves!!!!!

Wouldn't the climbing perch be so hardy it would hardy itself right out of the tank, up the curtains and out of the window?

 

[cheirodon]

I once carried a bunch of cardinals from the Ventuari river (a tributary of the Orinoco), downstream for a week, on a small cooler, and, to my surprise, 85% of them made it. It was a very rough ride, so I would tend to think they're hardy!

Where can I see what a climbing perch or a snakehead looks like?
(picture, pictures, we want pictures!)

 

[Kossy]

black tetras, danios, cardinals are all very hardy fish however like said not invincible...and yes neons are by no means hardy they are infact quite delicate Elezor why do you want to know?

 

[Ron]

I feel that black mollies are the most hardiest fish in the universe!! They can live in fresh, brackish and salt waters. they can handle liveing with messy turtles, through cycle, almost anything. I think that they are impossible to kill!!
Ron

 

[Bubble]

I assume you mean hardest fish to raise then I would agree. They are very easy to get sick if the water condition not good. I used to have 5 gold fish and they keep dying. I switch to parrot and oscar now, since then, none of them had died. (same condition, same tank as the gold fish was in)

 

[Eelzor]

Kossy-

Elezor why do you want to know?

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AA-

A more significant question is: why do you want to know?

Just for fact.

lol, i think some of you are taking this to the next level. walking fish? surviving extreme conditions? What are these animals?! Seriously, a fish that hardy is too hardy. My simple question was that if goldfish were the hardiest fish! Thanks for all opinions. It seems everytime I start a topic we get a big debate...I like it!!

 

[smb]

CFC is right on. I say a snakehead also.

Thanks for all opinions. It seems everytime I start a topic we get a big debate...I like it!!

Troublemaker!