Is there any fish that you just cannot keep alive?

Breakthecycle2 · Jun 14, 2015

I have a few fish that I love, but for whatever reason, I cannot keep from dying.

Scotts Fairy
Lineatus Fairy
Any jawfish, except pearly's.
Auora gobies...no matter what I do, they find a way to get out.

What about you guys?

jlanger · Jun 14, 2015

Female Ruby Red Dragonets.

I won a male fish from my local club's raffle a year ago and he is doing great in my 120gal reef.
I've tried a couple of times adding multiple females, but they've all perished rather quickly; most likely due to coming in very thin and in poor health.

4FordFamily · Jun 14, 2015

I haven't tried in years but royal grama

Humblefish · Jun 15, 2015

My "Achilles heel fish" used to be a CBB. Finally got one doing well in the DT. But before this one, I lost 3 in QT over the past 2 years.

redfishbluefish · Jun 15, 2015

I have tried Copperband Butterfly fish two times and I refuse to kill another fish. In both cases the fish were eating at the LFS. But when I brought them home, I couldn't get them to eat. The odd thing about both these is that I have a relative.....a long nosed yellow butterfly....that I've had since 2008 that eats everything.

RavenSF · Jun 15, 2015

Red Spot Cardinal fish. I love these guys but I went through ten of them. They all eventually just wasted away. In my defense I have no trouble keeping everything else alive.

Reefing Madness · Jun 15, 2015

You aren't going to believe this one: I can't for the life of me keep a Yellow Tang, I've had 12 of them, and haven't had any luck at all. Those fish kill me.

tweeter · Jun 15, 2015

Naso Tang. I tried three and gave up.

Humblefish · Jun 15, 2015

redfishbluefish said:
I have tried Copperband Butterfly fish two times and I refuse to kill another fish. In both cases the fish were eating at the LFS. But when I brought them home, I couldn't get them to eat. The odd thing about both these is that I have a relative.....a long nosed yellow butterfly....that I've had since 2008 that eats everything.

Same thing happened to me. I brought over some blackworms, watched the CBB eat them at the LFS, but then the dang thing promptly starved to death once in my QT. I even put him in my frag tank as a last ditch effort, when someone suggested they don't respond well to being in a sterile QT. Never had any problems keeping a Long Nose.

mOnsterzOas26 · Jun 15, 2015

Golden Midas blenny for me , I have had 3 and they all jumped to their dead [emoji26].

DVORaully · Jun 15, 2015

Copperbands for me. I have tried 2 of them and they just seem to die after a 2 weeks. All my other fish are healthy.

Joeganja · Jun 15, 2015

here's one.
harlequin filefish or another name is orangespotted filefish.

ncfishguy · Jun 15, 2015

Purple fire fish !! I'm ordered two both came in dead this was from two different places ! And I picked one up from fish store and in jumped

eatbreakfast · Jun 15, 2015

Acanthocepola indica, red bandfish. Just can't keep it in a community tank. Next time I try one will be in a tank dedicated for it.

jason g · Jun 15, 2015

I have no luck with blue green Chromis. I can buy 5 at a time and they all seem to die off within months. Weird I can keep Mandarins alive but not these little guys. Makes me upset because they are my favorite fish to look at.

Breakthecycle2 · Jun 15, 2015

Wow, I'm glad to see I'm not the only one with an Achilles heel. I've gone through maybe 8 or 9 Bluespot Jawfish, 1 redhead, two tiger, and a few dusky. They either jump, just die or get bluespot jawfish disease. All my Auroa gobies jump as well.

4FordFamily · Jun 15, 2015

Breakthecycle2 said:
Wow, I'm glad to see I'm not the only one with an Achilles heel. I've gone through maybe 8 or 9 Bluespot Jawfish, 1 redhead, two tiger, and a few dusky. They either jump, just die or get bluespot jawfish disease. All my Auroa gobies jump as well.

I tried one blue spot and It disappeared so I gave up.