Fish We Regret Putting In Our Tanks!

Rescued Domino damsel from LFS. Beat all to he*l by tank mates, I figured I would rescue him. Tripled in size within 2 months, took over the tank.
 
Originally posted by BrianD Just kidding :) I didn't want to disappoint anyone who saw almost 100 responses and clicked here thinking it was a flame-fest :D

Brian
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I'm amazed that there HASN'T been any flaming yet!

I guess we're all laughing at ourselves too much for that...

I haven't had an issues outside a somewhat aggressive Freckled Hawk. He's upsetting the sensibilities in my tank, and MAY be the culprit behind my dead Cleaner Shrimp.

M
 
Good to see that other people have gone through the same pain as myself.
1) Lunare wrasse, #1 hated fish ever introduced into my tank. This thing trashed my tank, harrassed all of my fish, ate everything and I had to tear the tank down to catch
2) Half-black angel, another bad one, ate a bubble coral, candy cane and was working on my brain before I finally caught him
3) Blue devil damsel, won't ever do that again
 
I have seen Lunare wrasse come up a bunch in this thread - but I honestly my terror fish is my Yellow tang - he steals silversided and urchin pieces right out of the mouth of my Odonus niger, he chases my lunare wrasse and thwacks him with his tail scalpals, he has torn chuncks out of the fins of my clark's clown, and he chases my humuhumu. I got him as a second hand tang from a reef buddy breaking down his tank. I named my tang Gimpy because he has always been missing half of his tail, and he has apparently suffered damage to his top fin which actually looks scarred. But despite the unhealed wounds suffered over his life, this tang is a murderous, meat eating, possessed devil fish - I though my trigger, being about twice the size and girth of the tang, would eat him - but instead he cowers in the corner when gimpy comes out and about. Honestly I have never even considered taking him out of the tank - my other fish are tough enough to deal with the tang abuse - and honestly my silverside eating cripple tang is just too funny to watch to even think about getting rid of -
 
Dragon wrasse (8" adult). Very cool fish. Great colors (and I personally thing the adult form is better than juv.) My Y-tang was in love w him and folowed him everywhere (to its dislike im sure). But, as time went on He pretty much came out to eat in the morning, and increasingly not every day. Then after getting his shrimp or cube or whatever he would flip under the sand till he was hungry again. Thing is that with such a monster in the tank I really couldn't get corals or many other fish. Sorry, but if I am going to have a pretty much species tank, I want something I can see.
 
Two spot wrasse. Beautiful as a juvi., mean and ugly as an adult. I did manage to capture him though, in a fully loaded 90 gal reef. ;)

My one A. Lineatus was mean enough but I refused to part with him.
 
Clown Trigger. Bought him when he was only 2.5 inches. Always cleaned inside of glass by hand (before magnet scapers). He grew to be about 5-6inches. One day while cleaning inside of glass he decided my finger was food. Took a bite out of finger. Had to get stitches. I almost had filet of trigger that night!! Gave him away week after.
 
Juvenile Koran Angelfish:

One of my favorite fish ever but one of the worst decisions is my Juvenile Koran Angelfish. I thought this fish would be Reef Safe but it wasn't. This was the most beautiful fish I have ever had but it ate my corals.

Yellowtail Blue Damselfish:

Mean as crap and hard to catch once they are in.
 
Yeah it's an angelfish. Most of the popular websites online tell you that you shouldnt keep them in reefs.

R.I.F. ;)

I can't believe this thread is still going Roland!
 
I have a purple chromis and he is digging everywhere!! 70% of the time the tank is cloudy because of him. I also worry that he will cause something to shift and crash there goes the glass. Although I think that is unlikely. I am trying to net him using food. Have been close to sucess but am waiting for the perfect time so that I dont ruin the method. The problem also is that it is no stupid fish!!
 
neon velvet damsel... got him when he was a cute baby and then he got big on me.... and I mean BIG! and mean... ended up giving him back to the fish store (they wouldn't take him back) he now lives in their live rock bed unfed and still alive... he's been there for almost a year... ugly... very ugly but alive.... and about 4 inches long....
 
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