Fish We Regret Putting In Our Tanks!

Purple Pseudo, just a nasty fish. Ate the back fins right off my fire fish until it died.

Not a fish but camel shrimp! I liked them so I got 4, then I tried corals. I added a leather and found them stripping the skin off. I had to remove all the rock to get them out. The leather has completely healed and no more camel shrimp!
 
Though my Hawkfish had a great "personality" and was a real camera hog, it ate every pod in my tank. I tried every trick in the book to catch it and remove it, but the the fish was too smart to fall for any of them. I finally gave it away when I tore that tank down due to a hair algae crash.

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I'll second the sally lightfoot crab, mine was trying to catch my Royal Gramma before I sent him back to the store.

Of course, my RG eventually got eaten by the bubble tip anemone.

I have two yellow tail damsels, a flame angel, a scooter blenny, and a tank bred clown. The clown has jumped out twice trying to chase my hand out of the tank, but I just pick her up and toss her back in.

So far, the damsels don't seem too bad, they ignore the blenny, don't go close to the clown's anemone, and run away from the flame angel.
 
My Kole Tang

My Kole Tang

I thought I carefully selected the 6 fish I wanted for my 75G tank. A mated pair of Perculas, a Purple firefish, a Comet, a Bangaii and then lastly a Kole Tang. I knew he had to be the last fish because of the reputation of killing off anything added after him.

Over the last 6 months he has reached an understanding with all his neighbors except the firefish. He chases him back into his hole every minute of every waking hour. Then hovers there for good measure for a few seconds.

Now to add insult to injury the stupid Tang has potty trained himself!! I kid you not, no matter where he is roaming around eating in the tank, he makes sure when it is his time to go (and believe me he ââ"šÂ¬Ã…"œgoesââ"šÂ¬Ã‚ a lot!!), he heads over to the top of the firefishââ"šÂ¬Ã¢"žÂ¢s hole and does his business right there on top!! As if saying ââ"šÂ¬Ã…"œHere take that you puny fraidycat!ââ"šÂ¬Ã‚.

He is just a baby still, maybe 2 Ã"šÃ‚½ inches, but he is back to fish store - as soon as I can figure out how to catch him.
 
A pair of blue faced tilefish.
Had them for a week, then one jumped in afternoon, his buddy jumped the same night
 
Not a fish but my green carpet anemone. It has gotten huge at about 15" across and my 2 large sebae clownfish host in it. The only trouble is any small fish that I put in becomes dinner.
A nasty bicolor dottyback that I wish the anemone would eat but has somehow figured out how to chase gobies and small fish right into the damn thing. I watched it do it to a rainford gobie and a purple firefish gobie.
 
mantisagogo said:
Great thread!

2) Maroon clown - I like mine, but people should know what they're getting into. The problem is you buy a sweet wiggly juvenile/male that looks at you lovingly in the LFS who gradually turns into "big bad momma fish" Wouldn't trade her and her mate for anything, but people should know what they are in for
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I totally agree. I love my "big momma" and her little mate, but if I had to do it all over again I don't think I would have them. They are beautiful fish with lots of personality but they are mean and territorial. They are lucky they are so darn cute.
 
Engineer goby - noticed it mentioned a lot - mine is a model citizen

sand sifting goby - another model citizen

Flame angel - NOT a model citizen - destroyed my leather and tormented my cinnamon clowns

Horseshoe crab - not suitable for tanks - I had mine for a year and it disappeared about a month ago - very clumsy
 
BIGGEST MISTAKE: Red morphed warted angler...extremely interesting but overly expensive fish...ate my 4 yr old perc "Blinky", an entire school of 7 chromis, and a scooter blenny thus far. Guy at LFS claimed it shouldn't be a problem if it was well fed. Actually, listenening to a guy at the LFS was my biggest mistake.

The saddest part is that I also have a maroon clown that had reached an understanding with the perc. It was great to have both in a 75g. They actually swam together without fighting. Blinky, you will be missed.
 
the absolute worst would have to be a maroon clown i had . i have had many fish that became aggressive towards tank mates but the aggressive fish have been the easiest to remove ! try this trick if you have'nt yet . i take a small mirrior and tape it to the tank (where ever you have enough room to manuvere a net ) put the net in the tank and wait until the fish sees itself in the mirror . it gets so p.o.ed that there is another fish like itself that i doesn't care about anything else . i don't think it has ever taken me longer than a 1/2 hour to get one of these fish out .
 
My Coral Beauty is a fantastic looking fish in my young 138gal, but each time I add a fish he seems to instegate aggressive behavior, often lying in wait in the rock work and snapping out as the new addition swims by, often causing my yellow tang to puff up and also become aggressive.
 
Re: Flame Angle

Re: Flame Angle

nazgul said:
Started off nice. Very pretty fish. Lot's O color.Never again.
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I got a flame angel as well, it was doing great, not eating any corals, then one day I get back from work, 4 digitata are cleaned bare to the skeleton, two acro colonies destroyed, all tissue removed, and my open brain deeply scarred, and an innocent flame angel chasing one of my clown fish trying to nip it.

I'm still in the process of catching it. Angel indeed...
 
I found this thread by bumping it and would love to keep it going. I read it all the way through and was laughing so hard sitting here all by myself. You guys that haven't seen it should read it though. There are some hilarious stories in this thread.

I think it's probably so funny because you realize you're not alone when this hobby grabs you by the short hairs sometimes.

Thanks for the laughs guys! :lol: :D :lol:
 
Awesome thread!

I have had my share of mean damsels, rowdy wrasses, and unruly tangs too. (Not so many, actually)

But I think I have perfected a method of catching the bullying critters....every time I feed mysis I thaw and rinse the food in a net. When ready, I dip the net into the tank and allow the mysis to "flow" out of the net. Having done this forever (couple years anyway)..all my fish immediately approach the net each time. Some actually swim into the net to eat. If you are a fish slated for removal..this is your final move! Amost all my fish swim toward any net I put into the tank...a little patience and a quick swipe has allowed me to evict any offender without a total reconstruction of the tank...

Happy snatching!
 
I think the only fish i regret putting in my tank (he is now gone) is a dragon goby, that thing loved to dump sand all over my corals, really ****ing off my sun coral.
 
A white ribbon eel, who went about measuring all my fish with jaw stretches: if any fit, it was missing the next morning. That fellow took a total removal of rock to catch and deport.
 
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