Invincible fish

[Angry_Platy]

I got to wondering about my bnose plec who has lived in my 30gal since I started with fish. thats 18 months. He survived a bout of ich, countless episodes out of the tank (when I forgot to check under the driftwood), he survived all my tank rearranging phases, survived the mass death from flea poison, survived cycling, recycling after substrate changes etc. He is a real trooper and still comes and says hello to me every morning. Unlike other fish who die at the slightest upset to the tank

Not to mention he has fathered so many fry I had to move the female into another tank

The worst was when he was left out of the tank for 3 hours under a piece of driftwood on the carpet. I only discovered him cause the cat decided she wanted to chase him

How about yours? Which of your fish is a trooper and why?

 

[kimbowee]

Mine is nothing as cool as a BN. I have a Black Molly that has survived everything we have dished at her, ya know, like stupidity. First, I knew nothing about fishless cycling. I bought her & 2 other Mollies to start with. She is the only one who made it. She lived through a Columnaris outbreak while I was cycling. And again lived when I dumped 5 new fish in the tank, without quarantining, and caused a mini-cycle. She then survived Ick which I introduced into the tank with the 5 new fish I dumped in. And even managed to survive a round with an 8 year old trying to fish with a net. She still forgave me and my stupidity though. She follows your finger along the glass. Thankfully, I found this forum and some people with brains. UNlike petsmart that told me to set up the tank wait 4 days & just dump in a couple of fish.

 

[Teelie]

My first albino cory from about 3.5 years ago. She was in an uncycled 5 gallon with a fantail goldfish and some other fish off and on. She came with a bent tail and has survived a 10gallon tank with ich about 3 years ago and now she's going through a tank with 2 Panda cories suffering from finrot. This is a 30 gallon and thankfully none of my other fish have caught the rot. I'm treating the tank now with maracyin so I'm hoping that will prevent any further outbreaks.

 

[sylvia]

Besides the danios that cycled my first ever tank, I had a three-spot gourami who has jumped thrice (once from the tank, then I covered it, next from a bucket when I was changing from gravel to sand in his tank and once right out of a net), survived ich, fungus and a mini-cycle and is now getting quite old. He's also been a father several times and is the first three-spot I ever bred. Not to mention that when I first bought him it was more as rescue attempt because he was in with tiger barbs and other male three-spots and looked quite battered for it. He is now happily retired and is currently living with a friend.

 

[pica_nuttalli]

my oldest fish is actually an oto that i've had since i started fishkeeping. he's been thorugh everything, including a period of sustained high nitrates (100+ ppm!) when my boyfriend kept promising to take care of my fish while i was out of town for a few months (needless to say, he wasn't as dilligent as i would had hoped ).

 

[Karah's_Mommy]

When I got my very first betta about 10-15 years ago, I didn't know anything about them at all. I bought the tiny hex tank for him and just dumped him in, no dechlor or anything. I quikcly learned on my own that that tank just wasn't big enough, so I went back to the store and got him a 1 gallon aquaview. I still didn't know anything about bettas. I set up the aquaview, UGF and all and ploppled him in there. I didn't do regular water changes, in fact, I don't remember doing anything but topping up the water. I may have done a random tank cleaning, but I don't remember it. The poor thing lived almost 3 years though, I have no idea how. I have learned a TON about bettas since then.

Another time I was cleaning out my guppy tank and once I was done, I skimmed the plant debris off the top with my net. Then I came online and started reading the forums here. I'm not sure how much later it was (maybe 30 mins to an hour or more), but my dad came and asked me if one of my male guppies had died. I told him no and asked why. He said he didn't see him in the tank. So I raced into my room to check it out. I knew he was just there as I just cleaned out the tank. I looked everywhere, checked under the ornaments, on the floor, and pulled apart my filter. I couldn't find him anywhere. Then it hit me .......... the net !!!!! That poor guppy was scooped up with the debris and just set aside out of the water. I was freaking out. I quickly put him back in the tank, and he just swam away. He's been fine ever since, but I don't use my net to scoop up debris anymore unless I thouroughly check it for fish before I leave it out of water.

 

[Fishy411]

zebra danio. lasting me forever. cycled 2 tanks from day 1 for me

 

[masterfishes]

i have 3...one is a betta that ive had for almost 4 years now....i still dont clean it as often as i should and he should be in a larger tank....the other is a common pleco....ive had him for 2 years now and hes been through 3 different tanks....deaths of several tank mates....3 cases of ich(the last was the worst)....finally is a white cloud that ive had for 3 years....i once had him in a 1 gal and tried having other fish with him but they always died....the pump even broke down and i didnt clean the tank for several months....hes also been through all the hard ships as the pleco

 

[Dwarfs]

My dad's peckoltia pleco and Jewel cichlid are both about 7 years old, and my skunk loaches can't be killed by mortals

EDIT: I shouldn't have posted, I got back from a weekend camping trip and I've found that the peckoltia has died

 

[breeze1770]

I have a cory that survived heavy over stocking of an uncycled tank(22 fish in a ten.. yikes!) which brought on ick. 4 months later a nasty snail over population my oldest sont tried to treat with salt- he squeaked through then too...
He got moved to my larger 55(goldfish) "for his safety" when my sister who was watching my house while I was on vacation, dumped her 5 random african cichlids in my 10 and 55. They ahd killed all but one goldfish and Cory byt eh tiem i got home...
then about a year ago my kids(ages 4 and 5 at the time) noticed some spots on the glass of my tank and thought the'd clean it so they sprayed windex and dish soap and pinesol and finally bleach on the glass trying to clean it.. when they realized it was inside the tank. So we( myself and my mother who was watching them) presume all chemicals made it into the tank as well. The water was foamy and "spring fresh".
Cory survived that also.
My blue opaline gouramis, a pleco and several snails were't so lucky...

he now lives on at the age of 5 in my 55g gourami tank.

 

[Synirr]

I have a cory that is at least 4 years old and simply refuses to die. It has survived my stupidity before I really got into fishkeeping, at least two cycles, aggressive tankmates... you name it. There have been ich, columnaris, and fungal outbreaks in the tank, but somehow that cory has managed to never once catch an illness.

 

[Sky042]

We once had a jack dempsey.
It was given to me after it killed everything in my buddies tank.
I put it in my tank then a few months later went away for a weekend and my tank leaked to the point where there was about 2 inches of water in it. My parents not knowing that there was a fish still in there(lots of plants) started emptying my tank out for me into a utility basin. Well all the sudden they see the JD flopping around in a mass of plants. They'd already wasted all the tank water so they quickly filled a glass with tap water(well water soft 6.6PH no chlorine) and dropped him in that.

They didn't know what to do so my dad adopted the fish and put him in a old goldfish bowl we had(my tank was not salvageable) That JD lived in the goldfish bowl for nearly a year with no heater and basically few water changed(1.5~2inch fish) till one night he got to swimming too hard and jumped out of the tank we found him dried on the carpet.

My dad actually put the fish in a ziplock and put the fish in the freezer as he'd gotten attached to it. nearly 10 years later there is still that little fish in a ziplock bag. He always jokes that one day there will be technology to revive the dempsey.

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

My most invincible fish are;

my common plecs
my female mollys
my male guppy and various females
(believe it or not) my neon tetras!
My albino corys...the list goes on...
I have quite a few fish that have stuck with me for some years since i first started fish keeping

The least invincible fish i have had are panda corys and delta guppys...

 

[lilmisstrouble]

neon tetras funnily enough. my first fish tank was brought for me when I was 10. My parents pretty much left me to it. I didnt cycle, did nothing in fact other than clean it every 2 weeks cos it used to get algae on it. They survived my bad fish keeping for years (!) and even a cat knocking off the lod and trying to catch them! Poor things. It was only when my dad started researching marine fish a long time after that we realised and started to look after them better! Poor babies!

 

[caveman]

All of my danios, they were all there when I first cycled my current fish tank (about a year ago).