[Innes]

I have never seen dead fish due to cycling tanks, not that I cycle tanks that much!
I would guess that livebearers, anglefish and plecos would be a bad choice - these seem to die really easely!
but piranhas and goldfish are really hard to kill, they can take cycling, and probably much worse!
My take on this is I wouldn't reccomend cycling with fish at all, but if you are going to do it, get the type of fish that is most likely to handle it, e.g. goldfish or piranhas/silver dollers/tetras.