Aquariums: Livestock I’ve Kept Ranked By Hardiness
Livestock I’ve Kept Ranked By Hardiness
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S Tier: Bristlenose pleco, banjo catfish, paradise fish, and medakas. Catfish are generally bulletproof tanks. Both paradise fish and medakas thrive in colder water and don’t even need a heater.
A Tier: South American bumblebee catfish, platy (didn’t keep either long since I rehomed them but were definitely hardy)
B Tier: Mystery snail (though my first one only lasted three months, my second grew huge and still going strong in my 10 gal)
C Tier: Dwarf gourami (mine was surprisingly quite resilient until it got severely bloated from DGIV after less than a year) 🥀
D Tier: Guppies (mine constantly blurred the line between dying en masse when looked at wrong and surviving dirty rainwater outdoors during a power outage)
F Tier: Panda corydoras (my first batches from Petco lived for around or less than two weeks before I gave up, internally cried, and decided to just not keep the species ever again)
I really like this visual layout as it provide a good aid or those coming into Fish-Keeping, using one’s opinion on their experiences.
Poecilidae generally are hardy species. The issue is with their quality in Ornamental Fish-Keeping; the differences between captive stock in North America and Europe compared with wild farms in Asia and Central America.
Guppies would have to be lower than other Poecilia genus, like Platys, for their lack of resistance to Guppy Disease, Tetrahymena, and lack of tolerance to salinity such as Mollies and Sailfin Mollies see.
Dwarf Gouramis have the same problem of being too deeply linebred. Their genetic quality in captivity is often exceptionally low hence why we see Iridovirus be so prominent. Whereas, their wild Asian ancestor is substantially hardier, and would deserve being higher on the list.
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S Tier: Bristlenose pleco, banjo catfish, paradise fish, and medakas. Catfish are generally bulletproof tanks. Both paradise fish and medakas thrive in colder water and don’t even need a heater.
A Tier: South American bumblebee catfish, platy (didn’t keep either long since I rehomed them but were definitely hardy)
B Tier: Mystery snail (though my first one only lasted three months, my second grew huge and still going strong in my 10 gal)
C Tier: Dwarf gourami (mine was surprisingly quite resilient until it got severely bloated from DGIV after less than a year) 🥀
D Tier: Guppies (mine constantly blurred the line between dying en masse when looked at wrong and surviving dirty rainwater outdoors during a power outage)
F Tier: Panda corydoras (my first batches from Petco lived for around or less than two weeks before I gave up, internally cried, and decided to just not keep the species ever again)
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I really like this visual layout as it provide a good aid or those coming into Fish-Keeping, using one’s opinion on their experiences.
Poecilidae generally are hardy species. The issue is with their quality in Ornamental Fish-Keeping; the differences between captive stock in North America and Europe compared with wild farms in Asia and Central America.
Guppies would have to be lower than other Poecilia genus, like Platys, for their lack of resistance to Guppy Disease, Tetrahymena, and lack of tolerance to salinity such as Mollies and Sailfin Mollies see.
Dwarf Gouramis have the same problem of being too deeply linebred. Their genetic quality in captivity is often exceptionally low hence why we see Iridovirus be so prominent. Whereas, their wild Asian ancestor is substantially hardier, and would deserve being higher on the list.