Toughest fishes ?!?!?!?!

[tintin]

Hi....i'm the newest around... ;D....i'm from caracas, vzla....
I have a new 30 gal tank....32x15x20 in....
i clung a Penguin BioWheel 170GPH.....
what can i buy to survive from the ammo cycle...??? ???
will zebras danios pass through????

How about no fish to cycle a tank! That is the best. Read this article
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/faustus/nicoldaquaria/fishless.htm and there are many more!

[scrimman]

Why not just do fishless cycling? ???

[tintin]

thnx ronrca......i read it....i'm gonna find my ammo bottle
and begin it fishless.....
anyway, how 'bout the zebras danios???

Cool! I dont know much about zebras because I have never had any. The toughest fish that I have come across is Whitecloud Minnows. I had them in my 90G tank when it was cycling. I was using the ammonia technique and had 20 minnows. My lfs said they are tough as nails. The ammonia went thru the roof so did nitrites and nitrates. I didnt lose 1 minnow and they didnt seem effected. The temp also went from 78F to 86F with no effect on the minnows. Of course, now that my 90G is cycled, I took the minnows back to my lfs so I dont know the long term effects.

[tintin]

8) 8) thnx.....i'll look for those....sounds faithful

yeah those little fish are some hardy buggers.

[fishboy]

Even hardier are mollies ;D

[tinylittledice]

tiger barbs, green tiger barbs r tough too, i think. i have 10 of them when my tank was still cycleing ;D in a 10 gallon tank, 2 of them died after a year when i added in 2 sunset platy  :'(

[ryanp15]

When my 5.5 gallon was cycling it had two feeder goldfish in it. I soon gave them to my cousin and got some more fish but they made it through and they were only 20 cents. ;D You may want to try those.