Anyone else have a particular fish they can't keep?

[thatcichlidguy]

Bala sharks, cant keep the stupid things alive for more than a week.

Mollies, more of the same. I did manage to keep one alive for a month , but it died and for no apparent reason.

Catfish. Except for corries and plecos I manage to murder everyone I get.

 

[all_or_nothin]

Oscars! i have one now but one died from pop eye, two died of other fish aggression, one died of over crowding of my fish tank. the last one was at least 5 years ago before i knew what was overcrowded. But i have one living happily in my 120!!!!!

 

[gregkarr09]

I've never had a cichlid die on me, but had to get rid of fish due to aggression. I had a 8'' texas that I couldn't keep w/ anything, because she would try and kill tank mates. Even when she was 3'', she almost killed my 6'' male convict. I still have the convict, and he is over 10 years old.
I have had problems w/ ich, HITH, and popeye in the past, but cured the fish. The only fish I had problems keeping is pictus catfish, but that was a long time ago and it was ich that killed them.

Thats awsome I would really like to know your water change schedule and feeding guide

 

[Adhlc]

Green Terrors. The first one I had for about 6 months, one day stopped eating and started pooping white, showed no interest in food for weeks. I finally had to euthanize. The second one lasted a couple weeks, before he too stopped eating and started the stringy white poo. I treated both with everything I could think of, but with no luck.

 

[Otherone]

Green Terrors. The first one I had for about 6 months, one day stopped eating and started pooping white, showed no interest in food for weeks. I finally had to euthanize. The second one lasted a couple weeks, before he too stopped eating and started the stringy white poo. I treated both with everything I could think of, but with no luck.

BIG DITTO!

Green terrors................I'm on my 4th one and he's got parasites hangin off his gills..............lost 2 to sudden cichlid death syndrome aka got killed by red terrors.............lost one a few months ago to arthritis and now......this is my very last attempt at GT's. I've treated this one with cooper well see............

 

[nguyenz]

How about the african arowana and the paddlefish / spoonbill catfish

 

[CubanB]

i find male dovii's very hard to keep - simply because they all turn out to be females lol

 

[LowCel]

i find male dovii's very hard to keep - simply because they all turn out to be females lol

I'm hoping that one of my male dovii's turn out to be female.

 

[xylpheon]

Bala sharks, cant keep the stupid things alive for more than a week.

Same here. Glad to know im not the only one . I've tried so many times with no luck. I was told they do great in large numbers...so i tried half a dozen small ones in a 55 gallon to see if they'd make it....and....they didnt .....So i finally gave up

 

[Tom]

NEONS! Because whenever I have a nice new tank of neons I get the urge to put something in that can eat them -_-