Fish We Regret Putting In Our Tanks!

[baron_vonklyff]

• 1. Basslets of any kind (except Swiss Guard): Viscious, Nasty, Ornery
  2. Sailfin Tang : Viscious, Nasty, Ornery, Not that good looking
  3. Tomato Clown : Viscious, Nasty, Ornery
  4. Blue Sided Boxfish : ICh infestation from HELL. Caused me to empty my reef of fish (what were remaining) for 7 months, and I still have recurrances.
  5. Coris wrasses : Rock moving devils, coral tippers, shrimp eaters
  6. Catalina Gobies : Found out too late that they were cold water
  7. Moorish Idol : Impossible to keep alive
  8. And Many More....

 

[minireef75]

OMG..I about rolled out of my chair..lmao..

OMG..I about rolled out of my chair..lmao..

I can just picture these fish biting the sh8t out of you guys..lmao...nothing like Evil Pets bent on tasting human flesh....lmao..I'm sure I won't be laughing when (and if) this ever happens to me. Thanks for the laugh...I haven't laughed like that in a long time. Evil Clowns...lmao

 

[Runner]

My mean human flesh eating Gold Band Maroon Clown.

I have a 4" maroon clown and, now, a 3" Clarkii clown in my tank. Thus far, I've kept an eye on the maroon (because of the reputation). He has never charged my hand, but I am careful around him.

Anyway, last night I was scrubbing the algae off the front glass. I was real careful to make sure the maroon was hiding on his side of the tank. I got to the Clarkii side of things, and WHAM! Out comes the little #@$! and takes a chunk out of my index finger. Not too bad a wound; however, I may need stitches from the nice gash I got on my wrist from the edge of the tank as I jumped back.

I am plotting to take the Clarkii to the LFS this weekend. And get something non-hazardous to humans. Like a blennie or royal gramma.

 

[peregine]

Arabian Pseudochromis !

Killed every new fish I put in within a week. Made a fish trap out of a 2 liter soda bottle, it worked ! He's now at the LFS looking for a new home.

Happy reefing.

 

[ReefGeekster]

Arabian Pseudochromis !

Killed every new fish I put in within a week. Made a fish trap out of a 2 liter soda bottle, it worked ! He's now at the LFS looking for a new home.

Happy reefing.

Pseudochromis are the worst of the worst for size. :hmm2:

 

[seqcgr]

Small clown trigger, came home from work to find my very large lion fish floating upside down with all his fins missing and my horned shark with its eyes missing. Very sad day.

 

[anthony0812]

this is when i first started with salt water being a idiot..ok..here is what i did:

Mandarin Goby in a 7 gallon

12" leapord shark in a 40 gallon..

YES YES..i am an idiot!

 

[kev-dog1]

great thread, very entertaining and informative

I'm surprised no one has mentioned - Panther Grouper. Back in my early days, when I started with FO tank, I let the GF pick out the first few fish. "Look at this cute white one with spots and the wavy fins", she said. He quickly grew into an ugly, grey PIG!

Got to stick up for the damsel tho. I've got a Fiji damsel in a fish only with a Niger Trigger and Maroon clown, both of which are three - four times his size. He does a great job of cleaning up the small scraps of food, which is why I got him.

 

[Wolverine]

Yellow-tail and dominoe damsels to start the tank (currently slapping my wrists for cycling with fish).

Clown trigger
Volitans lion
I don't regret necessarily having these two fish, but I regret having them in a 50g tank, and then having to give them up because they got too big.

Then I found RC.

Dave

 

[seqcgr]

Funny thing is, after reading this thread I suddenly want a large maroon clownfish. I like em spunky!:lol:

 

[haley17]

My atlantic blue tang. Harrasses everything, hogs food, and bites. It has lived through a tank crash and two moves. I keep hearing that this is a delicate species, but I am convinced it will outlive me.

 

[sven]

Back in the dark ages of reef aquariums 20 years ago, I spent over $300 on a Sohal Tang. The fish was nice but became lunch for an anemone. It would top my list not because of the fish itself but because of the foolish waste of a life and my money. I could have set up a small tank for that much cash back then.

 

[ccd]

Oblique-lined dotttyback.

Gorgeous fish, means as hell. Kills everything. In jail.

Do girlfriends count?

 

[ccd]

Much the same as GF actually come to think about it.

 

[DT's_Reef]

Flashing tilefish. Most people probably have never seen one, but they are one of the most unique amazing fish in the hobby. They literally flash blue/pink/puple and various shades between quickly before your eyes. The change in color is very obvious.

He was about $100 and jumped out of my tank within a week.

Well, a few years later, I saw another one at my LFS. $80. However, I was prepared. I placed plastic grid (flourescent lighting grid?) over the holes in the top of my tank so he couldn't jump. Apparently there was a tiny gap between my heater and the hole above it and he managed to jump out one night. The cat alerted me to it. Luckily, he wasn't out of water long, and everything was fine. A few days later, I saw it poking its head out of the water, bumping against the grids covering the top of the tank, and repeating this many times. Within one day it managed to squeeze through one of the tiny spaces in the grid work and died.

Dwarf angels. They always end up picking on my corals.

Blue damsels. No explanation needed.

Whitley's boxfish (stupid purchase in my early reef days). Did the poison trick and killed all my fish including itself.

Darin

 

[fishinchick]

Hmmm I had a domino damsel that was teeny, maybe he was humbled by his size. He paired off and was makin like he wanted to spawn with my Percula Clown. They even cuddled in the anemone together.
I love my spazzy little chromis' too. I have four of them. They are cool, but panicky little fish.

The only fish I ever regret having is my Lawnmower blenny. He knocks stuff over all the time. He does a good job at cleaning up the tank so he stays for a while but dang he is a klutz.

Roland, this is a great thread!!!

 

[Critter!]

Sand Sifting Goby..... what a mess, tore up the tank. Moved my Open Brain away from his digging and he would take up a new excavation site right next to the Brain's new location coving it with substrate (safe word). Caught him yesterday afternoon in a trap (he swam right in and I dropped the door!). Rushed to the LFS and received a 50% credit. IMHO all of those long thin varieties of Gobies that Bob Fenner has identified as burrowing are likely to be problematic.

 

[Old Yeller Tang]

Thanks Adrienne!

I just thought it might help others be aware of buying certain fish without the risk tag on them. I know every fish is different and react toward species differently, like my marroon clown which has been a very good fish to me and I know others have dreaded theirs. I still have that nasty checkerboard wrasse in my tank that I give the evil eye to everytime I pass the tank. I still say to stay away from wrasses with pointy faces and grow over 4", unless it is the only wrasse in your tank. I prefer fairy wrasses, but this killer I have will not allow any in the tank. I did remove my bicolor blenny who was a pain too. Now it's in my 29g hex and troubling no one. If I can only rid the wrasse!

Roland

 

[BrianD]

What a freakin' stupid, waste-of-time thread. You are all a bunch of jerks.

Just kidding I didn't want to disappoint anyone who saw almost 100 responses and clicked here thinking it was a flame-fest

Anyhoo, back to the topic.....my major mistake, like others, was buying a pair of gold striped maroon clowns. They didn't bite me, but after I added them to my tank, I lost a coral beauty that I had for 3 years and a beautiful christmas wrassse . Those fish are the spawn of the devil.

Brian

 

[rpisces]

I have faced problems with the following fishes:

1. Hawkfish - When I introduced my new blue devil (Damsel) my hawkfish attacked it from below while they swam on the water surface. The damsel was attacked every now and then until its stomach portion got ecposed and died. That was 5 years ago and until now I have never buy the hawkfish again ( long nose hawkfish is OK).

2. Golden dwarf angel - This angel peck and eat away all my brain corals that it could access.