What (in your opinion) Is the easiest fish to keep for beginners?

[vetteguy53081]

Firefish goby

 

[Salty Rambler]

starry blenny

 

[Frithton]

If a beginner is a first grader - guppies...(you didn't say which environment)

 

[Andreas' Reef]

If a beginner is a first grader - guppies...(you didn't say which environment)

you can probably tell which environment by the title of this entire forum

 

[BeltedCoyote]

Clowns

 

[Frithton]

you can probably tell which environment by the title of this entire forum

Very true. Been a long day... In all seriousness - clownfish....

 

[WiscoFishNut]

Pair of clowns from the same "batch". I added that extra qualifier because not all matches are made in heaven. Ask the picasso clown in my nano.. Poor guy got bullied every time the dinner bell rang by a standard occ, at east until the bully decided to carpet surf..

 

[Leo_ian]

Euryhaline fish
Eg. Guppies, mollies, neon and pacific blue eye
Yellow tail damsel
Shrimp goby
Tailspot blenny
Cardinal fish
Engineer goby
Neon gobies
Grammas
Basslets

 

[Uncledd]

I can somehow never seem to keep canned tuna alive. The other fish always eat it any ways to combat this?

I hear the trick is to not open the can.

 

[Rmckoy]

I can somehow never seem to keep canned tuna alive. The other fish always eat it any ways to combat this?

A few slices of bread and mustard

Mustard brings out the best in the tuna

 

[CK Amstutz]

I canNOT keep Green Chromis Damsels alive!! I have bought and bought. Large, odd numbered groups. Nope. I have a beautiful tank but know enough now to not buy any of those.

 

[Neros503]

definitely clownfish. my clowns survived huge algae outbreaks with off the chart nitrate readings, they survived more than a month of an inaccurate heater and thermometer, and when I realized it I bought a new thermometer and the tank was hotter than 95 degrees. They've survived almost a year now on me constantly making beginner mistakes. best fish for beginners.

 

[Littlebit]

Devil Damsels, nothing can kill them

I bet

monkeyCmonkeyDo's barracuda can kill him ​

 

[Jeffcb]

pick one that you like..

 

[shanzfish]

I canNOT keep Green Chromis Damsels alive!! I have bought and bought. Large, odd numbered groups. Nope. I have a beautiful tank but know enough now to not buy any of those.

Same here! Everything else thrives. Thought it was just me..

 

[Westside Guy]

Clown over Damsel because then you can actually add a second fish!

Definitely a set of paired clowns! I purchased my Gladiators from ORA and they were shipped to my LFS as "paired" and have been inseparable ever since they were introduced to my tank.

 

[Westside Guy]

All of the classics, Bengai or PJ Cardinal

The only issue with either of them is that they are not active swimmers.

 

[sksouthpaw]

Damsel for sure

 

[sksouthpaw]

Damsel for sure

Again speaking to the question of EASIEST. Not easiest and nicest or most interesting.. just easiest.

 

[Iggy305]

Clowns, PJ Cardinals, anything labeled Starkist.