HEAD COUNT

[vantgE]

Just wandering about the survival rate of our hobby

I have been fishkeeping for about 18 months now and killed over 12 fish

12+Many fry that I didn't attempt to raise- like- goldfish fry over fifty can't raise that many anyways most were deformed have 16 or 18 left, and fry that hatched in the cichlid tank

from cycle,
agresion
fry jumpers
adding fish +columnaris
adding fish
and
the grandmother

 

[Ethos]

I've been in the hobby for alittle over 9 months, and I've killed 3 fish.
Before I was seriouse about the hobby, I killed 2 bettas

 

[bettaboi]

i have been very lucky been into it for about a year and only lost 1 neon tetra

 

[Synirr]

I've lost several bettas for numerous reasons over the years (old age, incurable finrot/bodyrot, weird congenital defects, jumpers, swimbladder disorders, glass cleaner poisoning which was NOT MY FAULT...) but other than that I've had pretty good luck. I also managed to kill about 10 feeder guppies that I was trying to keep... those things are so inbred and fragile it's unbelievable!!

 

[Ethos]

I believe it. My Neighbor Geiun, she has not been able in 6 months to keep a fish alive for more than 10 days. Yet she keeps trying

 

[Tolak]

In 2 years I've gone from a couple of community tanks, to a small scale breeding setup with 14 or so tanks. My wife has threatened to kill me on numerous occasions, but I'm still alive.

My survival rate is good so far, that could change real quick if I run across a killer deal on a used tank.

Tolak

 

[mm_simb]

I've been in and out of the hobby for 3 years and I've killed over 10 fishes The betta on my sig is the only one I've been able to keep alive for a while already, although right now is struggling through some fin rot and velvet.

 

[Sky042]

Was actually fairing pretty well till an unexplanable occurance in my 46G bow where I lost nearly 20 fish and have never figured out why.

 

[CFC]

Other than newbie mistakes and the filter disaster that wiped out most of my fish a couple of years ago ive lost about a dozen fish since getting into the hobby properly, most of these have been pretty much my fault for attempting to keep unsuitable species together like when i had a Leporinus systamaticly wipe out everything it was kept with before i caught it in the act and moved it to another tank, now the little sod spends his days dodging Exodons

 

[FishEnthusiast]

I made lots of mistakes in the beginning, like introducing a fish that I didn't quarantine first. That fish brought ich with it and it wiped out my entire 20G that had been running nicely for 8 months. I had a plec, 8 tetras, and some kind of barb schoal in there. Since then I have lost 3 female bettas to columnaris, 5 rummynose tetra and one dwarf gourami to ich, 1 angel to unknown causes, 4 oto's to unknown causes and 1 dwarf rainbow to dropsy. I am battling velvet right now and I am winning

Sheesh, now that I write it down, it seems like I kill a lot of fish

 

[daudy_dojo]

i have been in the hobby since feb. ( BF bought me a 10 gallon and some mollies to start off with)

since then i have lost:
2 neon tetras (didnt know anything about them but i thought they were cute)
2 albino cories (one was eatin and the other was ... it... died of depression cause his lover got eaten)
1 angelfish (my CAE sucked him to death cause i didnt know of the dangers of flat bodied fish and CAE)
1 otto (some weird tumor)
1 betta (poor velvet he had fuzzy fungus, swim bladder, fin rot, and everything else i can think of)
1 10 gallon tank (pressure crack cause i moved it with water in it )
30 mollie fry (didnt know they were born until it was to late )
1 guppy (didnt know i had to de-chlorinate the water )


i think thats it cant remember!

but yea needless to say in 4 months i have come along way before the betta and the otto i hadnt had a fish die on me in.... 3 1/2 months YEY! then my otto got a weird disease and died and then i rescued velvet and tried my best and then he died saturday

 

[dwarfgourami]

I fishkept for a few years as a child (we're talking the early 1970's here); my main memory from that period is how fragile fish are and how all your pocket money goes on replacements.
This time round, touch wood, I haven't had a death yet- but then I've only been in the hobby for 3 months, and I haven't got a lot of fish, which must effect my statistics. I would have thought if you keep hundreds, even under the best conditions, you would expect a higher death rate than me with my eleven.
Also, I am not trying to keep anything difficult (yet), though I must admit I am impressed by my male guppy. He's a tiny little thing with an enormous red tail, he looks so inbred you'd expect him to drop dead on sight, yet he is such a little toughie, swims amazingly well for his physique, and stands up to the bullying platy who is 3 time his size.

 

[OohFeeshy]

Currently...
3 guppies that very more fragile than I thought
A BN plec that TBH was too small to sell
4 Glowlights due to either NTD or gill flukes

 

[DMan99]

Been in the hobby for 18months, ive had 6 fish die and then fry that were unsuccessfully raised unfortunately...

 

[Jules H-T]

I've lost a black ghost knife fish (never got on well, only lasted a fortnight- the flow rate was too high for him and he got sucked onto the filter), and 16 neons (which were all eaten in under 24 hours unfortunately), in around a year of tropicals. No diseases apart from a bit of whitespot which was easily fixed.