What is worst fish that gets sick quick!

[danielbui23]

Basically like the title says but in your personal experience or maybe what you have always read. I would like to know, "What is the worst fish to put into an aquarium that seems to always gets sick with ich brake outs or wont eat and gets sick or even just dies for no reason while others in the tank are great"

I personally have nothing but trouble from Copperbanded Butterflies. I gave up after the second one.

Anyone else?:wave:

 

[cody6766]

I'm not sure why, but I can never get those pesky blue gill to survive in my reef. It's a shame because I caught them near my house when I lived in OKC all the time. Anyone know why they didn't last more than an hour or so???





















Seriously though...I had a clown goby and a starry blenny that wouldn't eat. I keep pretty 'basic' fish though. I"m sure you'll see tangs and butterflies mentioned though.

 

[madkat]

I have had 2 sets of trouble fish.

I went through 4 pair of gold stripe maroons. Chock it up to bad livestock. All purchased from the same LFS. Haven't had clown problems since and my clowns are spawning about every 2 weeks.

Next would be the clown tang. Beautiful fish but can't keep them alive for more than 2 weeks.

 

[pwhitby]

with all tangs, its all about the quarantine.

I have had no issues with clown tangs following a long Qt and acclimation.

All tangs are wild caught and as such they have been exposed to a lot of intestinal parasites. If you dont treat these chances are your healthy tang will eat and eat..but never grow and will ultimately starve.

In Qt i band nori to plastic pipe to simulate an algae covered rock, this works well and the fish eats. I then sandwich pellets in the nori. then I feed pellets, then I soak pellets in garlic and prazipro. once the fish is hunting pellets its time to get the tank ready for him to move into. this has worked well for me with a number of tangs.

The flip side is, all tangs are wild caught, and there will always be some that will never truly acclimate to a closed environment.

P.

 

[jkhudson]

Ditto to Paul
I have reached the point where I won't buy another hippo tang from a vendor regardless of warranty. Tangs are fragile compared to others.

Cody, what kind of water did you keep your bluegills in? I had a tank with bluegills, catfish, and other fish from a creek by my house. I knew tap water would kill them so I hauled buckets from the creek to fill the tank.

 

[lauremf2002]

ditto to paul, also I have trouble with very shy fish like clown gobies and blennies. I put them in the tank and then never see them again

 

[blakers82]

I don't know the answer to your question, but I once quarantined a powder blue tang. He was eating nori like a champ. A week in he displayed ich and I lost him soon after. I'm still bummed.

The last time I added fish I added a school of fairly small chromis to my reef tank. Perhaps they were too small, but I thought some might make it. If anyone was going to mind it would have been my powder brown tang, but he didn't seem to care so much. However, in about 3-4 days they had all disappeared. I found 3 on the outside of my Vortechs, but no remnants of the 4-5 others. Could have been disease or maybe the fish. It also could bave been very a friendly invert.

 

[zxanth]

I had problems with Naso tangs... Which is sad because I really want one ... Tried it 3 times the last 2 lasted about six months and died.

 

[danielbui23]

I'm not sure why, but I can never get those pesky blue gill to survive in my reef. It's a shame because I caught them near my house when I lived in OKC all the time. Anyone know why they didn't last more than an hour or so???








Seriously though...I had a clown goby and a starry blenny that wouldn't eat. I keep pretty 'basic' fish though. I"m sure you'll see tangs and butterflies mentioned though.

Haha, Blue gill in a Reef? Haha I just got that one.

 

[MarlinDreams]

Mine used to be Hippo Tangs, no matter what we did there were always problems.