Fish We Regret Putting In Our Tanks!
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Powder Blue Tang - not that I regret the fish, in itself it is great but I cannot introduce any other fish ... So far the only fish who stood up to him was my Passer Angel. Now the two are "Buddies" and do everything together, including stopping by my cleaner shrimp for some grooming. Unfortunately, I want to add other fish and these two have terrorized anything I have tried so far.... grrrrrr. Surprisingly, the corals I have put in have been left alone, hope it stays that way ...
kenny77
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Yellow Longnose Butterflyfish. he get stress out just by looking at him, but now that he get use to people walking around the tank, i ran out of live brine shrimp and that almost all he eat. and no LFS had some for 4 day, the poor guy was starving so i try to feed him with some mysis but he wasnt eating enought so now the poor guy that is suceptible to ich mora than average fish, got ich and the other fish too. but but thank god the other fish even when they have some signs of ich they are doing great. but the yellow Longnose i really dont know if he is going to make it
Navyblue
Low maintenance first
This thread is older than I am here 
, but a good thread nonetheless.
Purple tang: big bully.
My pair of ocellaris clown: my first fishes, too common and uninteresting (nothing wrong actually), and I still have them till today.
Yellow belly blue damsel: I didn't put him in, one fine day when I got home I was "surprised" by my mom by an extra fish I found in my tank (unquarantined and unacclimated) and I found both my firefish on the floor, dried. Off he goes into banishment.
, but a good thread nonetheless.Purple tang: big bully.
My pair of ocellaris clown: my first fishes, too common and uninteresting (nothing wrong actually), and I still have them till today.
Yellow belly blue damsel: I didn't put him in, one fine day when I got home I was "surprised" by my mom by an extra fish I found in my tank (unquarantined and unacclimated) and I found both my firefish on the floor, dried. Off he goes into banishment.
michaelmcl47
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My yellow tang,
Hes a mean fish but,hes always part of the family now.Always keeps me in stitches from time to time with his antics.I just can't place in any other fish cause he kills them overnight.
Hes a mean fish but,hes always part of the family now.Always keeps me in stitches from time to time with his antics.I just can't place in any other fish cause he kills them overnight.
xian
Premium Member
Here's a few failures
Bicolor and Lemon peel angels: neither ever really got on well with my hippo tang stopped eating and died in a week.
Fourline red sea cleaner wrasse: Fine for a few days then died mysteriously. (Tried this twice DOH!)
Here's one I haven't seen, here, yet: Sally lightfoot crab Confirmed kills neon goby, firefish, ocellaris clown
Sixline wrasse: confirmed kill on a royal gramma and almost on an ocellaris. Healthy fish, but mean, died in a power outtage
Lessons I learned the easy way
No damsels in the reef
No pseudochromis ( I did keep a P. diadema in a 20 gal with an ocellaris clown at school no problems)
Bicolor and Lemon peel angels: neither ever really got on well with my hippo tang stopped eating and died in a week.
Fourline red sea cleaner wrasse: Fine for a few days then died mysteriously. (Tried this twice DOH!)
Here's one I haven't seen, here, yet: Sally lightfoot crab Confirmed kills neon goby, firefish, ocellaris clown
Sixline wrasse: confirmed kill on a royal gramma and almost on an ocellaris. Healthy fish, but mean, died in a power outtage
Lessons I learned the easy way
No damsels in the reef
No pseudochromis ( I did keep a P. diadema in a 20 gal with an ocellaris clown at school no problems)
Johnsteph10
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xian -- man, have you lost a lot of fish!
Royal Gramma
Beautiful color, lots of fun to watch and feed. But, a mean SOB. It ripped of the front jaw of a goby that I had in the tank. Also it attacks the stick I use to stir the sand bed. It is such an aggressive eater that it tries to eat right out of the pipet that I use to feed.
Just to give you guys a better idea.... I've got a 10" red devil in one of my freshwater tanks that has left me plenty of teeth marks. If I could put the gramma in the same tank as him, the red devil would go down in no time.
Beautiful color, lots of fun to watch and feed. But, a mean SOB. It ripped of the front jaw of a goby that I had in the tank. Also it attacks the stick I use to stir the sand bed. It is such an aggressive eater that it tries to eat right out of the pipet that I use to feed.
Just to give you guys a better idea.... I've got a 10" red devil in one of my freshwater tanks that has left me plenty of teeth marks. If I could put the gramma in the same tank as him, the red devil would go down in no time.
