Fish We Regret Putting In Our Tanks!

Rpisces,

I knew I'd get some good replies here! About your Golden Angel. A friend of mine just gave me his Golden Angel and I have it in a holding tank right now. I know angels can be notorious pickers as my Bicolor is the reason I no longer have green open brains in my tank anymore, but have you seen yours pick at clams and sps'? Also, do you have yours with other dwarf angels? I really like to add the Golden Angel to my main tank but want to take precautions because I do have clams and sps' as well as other dwarf angels. My lfs has their Golden Angel with other dwarfs for over a year w/o problems. I might just put it in my smaller tank just to be safe.

OYT
 
OYT

The Golden Angel was a new addition. Therefore, it didn't come out every often but during the brief period of sneaking out it would peck and eat away the open brains first before being chased away by my Purple and Yellow Tangs and thus have not enough time to sample my other corals

I also have a Flame Angel and it is OK. The problems with any new addition is that before they have time to adjust and eat prepared foods they would sample their natural foods first!
 
Royal Gramma...

:( I added a Royal Gramma to my tank, and my Purple tang did not like him. In hindsight from my FW days, fish of the same colors/patterns do not like each other. hence, Purple/yellow tang did not like Violet/yellow Royal Gramma. Long story short, poor Gramma:(

Angela.
 
Hmmm.... my purple tang and gramma got (past tense, as my friend now has this tank and fish) along very well in a 55 gallon that only had a few chromis in addition. The purple had been in that tank for 8 years and ignored the gramma when I added it.

I think aggressiveness can vary a lot within a species.

Darin
 
yep, no problems with tangs and gramma, but the ole eel, now he decided he had a problem with him one day. But that was a quick solution to his problem, and then i was one less gramma -Guru
 
sand sifting goby and a firegoby two days later on the floor :( and that damn banded shrimp! only comes out at night i never get to see him
 
Man, o man, glad I saw this thread while researching pseudochromis!

I do have a yellow stripe maroon clown, and oh yes, she is one mean little beastie, I really have to watch out for her.

I have two four stripe damsels and two yellow tail damsels. I used to have another yellow tail I called the general who was probably the meanest son of a gun around, so mean, that when I was cleaning the tank, he attacked the intake filter and got stuck in the drain tube, served him right. Since then, one of the four stripe damels has become the biggest of the small fish.

Everyone gives way when the maroon clown comes out to play, no one wants a piece of that.

My problem is, with such an aggresive tank, I have problems finding a fish that can hold its own without wiping out my cleanup crew of snails and crabs! I would like to get the damsels out of there and put in some other stuff, but I am still working on it.
 
Hellspawn Damsels

Hellspawn Damsels

I inherited a tank full of damsels (came with the tank when I got it, used). That's bad enough, but two were a mated pair that had apparently spawned in the tank, and had three smaller offspring. This gang of hellspawn was so nasty that they pestered a 3.5" Fiji Blue Devil to death. The only thing they didn't kill was a 5" damsel.

Eventually, I had to take out all the decorations and catch all the hellspawn and "dispose" of them. LFS wanted NOTHING to do with these things. According to them, they are a type of damsel that no one sells anymore--gee I wonder WHY???!!! I didn't want to leave them in there for fear that they would spawn again and create MORE.

Compared to them, the two bullies I have now are pretty tame, although I can't wait for the lunare wrasse to grow up and beat the stuffing out of the damsel--

Send me your community outcasts, one thing I HAVE noticed is that these nasty fish are just about impossible to kill! And since I am fairly new at this, that is definately a good thing!

;)
 
I see the sand sifting goby is mentioned a few times with a couple of mentions for the gold head sleeper. Personally I love mine and I wouldn't remove him for any reason. He has caused his share of trouble but he is a great fish and I have heaps of worm trails, some big worms in the rocks and the mandarin is still going well.

However, a couple of damsels I have removed due to aggression but the worst mistake I ever made was a midnight angel. Nice looking fish and well behaved for a few months. Then he got the taste for corals. Ate an entire 5x3" Tubipora, some Cespitularia, Xenia and picked at SPS before I finally tore the tank apart to remove him (taking advantage of the situation and removing the 2 damsels and adding a couple of inches of sand).
 
The "Monefliouttayo walletfastathanucanblick" fish is always a killer.

You see it swimming in your LFS. You get interested but think "I should wait, think it over, do the research to make sure it is compatible with my other occupants". Just as you start walking out, you see another couple looking at YOUR fish - you make a beeline for the counter and say "I'll take that fish - the Impulse Takemehomenow!!!!"

2 days later, every one in the tank has ich, is beat up and the new fish has rearranged everything.

The things we do....
 
Biggest Fish Mistakes

Biggest Fish Mistakes

I would have to say that my biggest fish mistakes includes:

1. Bicolor pseudochromis - lb for lb the meanest fish I've ever seen.

2. Clarke Clownfish - this was my wifes 17-year-old clown. I figured - it can't live too much longer - put it in my reef tank and it lived 3 more years. The thing dug up the sand bed, struck at my arm when I was cleaning the tank, chased and killed my sailfin tang (happened one day when I was at work), etc. But, it was my wifes pet for 17+ years so I had to put up with it. MEAN, MEAN, MEAN....

3. Algae blennie - it was a cool fish that did very well in my quaranteen tank but just could not adjust to the main reef tank - I think that it was the water flow rate. I couldn't get him out w/o breaking down the whole tank - not possible w/ all of the corals. I still feel bad about this one and my mistake.

That's about it.

Dave
 
Biggest mistakes: clowns.

Started out with three adult maroon clowns in a 55G. After a week there was one. The rabid little monster proceeded to kill everything else in the tank, relentlessly attacking e.g. a yellow tang and a puffer, and even me. After I had witnessed it becoming so intent of attacking me through the glass that it ignored the food I'd just put in, it went back to the LFS. I pity the fool who bought her.

Then I bought false perculas. Cheap, not as pretty but also nowhere near as nasty as the maroon. However, after they'd managed to terrorize two host anemones to death and one to the brink of death by either starving (to the point that they entered the stomach of the anemone to rip food out), or just stressing them by constantly nipping them, they too went back to the store. After they were gone I realized that, hey, host anemones are among the easiest and hardiest things one can keep, about as challenging as mushrooms.

I've kept various other damsels and had no problem with them, hell, my yellow tail damsels were even well-adjusted members of society, but I'll never try clowns again. That maroon was the most rabid animal I've ever owned, rift lake cichlids included. Imagine a 5" Mike Tyson on a bad PCP trip and you have my maroon clown.

Second biggest mistake was a wrasse I caught myself. I knew wrasses were specialized invertebrate predators, but how much damage can one cute little 2" wrasse do?

As it turned out: immense amounts. Within two days it'd killed _all_ fan- and peacock-worms, several shrimps and snails, an urchin(!) twice his size and completely annihilated all pods. Back he went.
 
Maroon Clown - purchased at about 1/2" long, it's now 2" long and it's getting more vicious every day. Placed in a tank with jaws - I'd put my $$$ on the clown. I'm convinced it will never die, even Satan doesn't want it around.

Of course I should have known this after I saw one @ Discovery Cove in FL - hundreds of fish 15 - 20 times it's size around & not one of them going anywhere near the clown.
 
We recently had to remove a 7" twin spot wrasse. He was such a cool fish, but he had different tastes in decorating than I did. He was always moving corals around. He also enjoyed the taste of our clams and snails. After he ate all of the snails and killed two or three clams, I hooked him. He has a new home.

We also had a pair of True Percula clowns that managed to chase about 5 fish out of the tank before we realized they were the problem. They also have a new home.

Andrew
 
Somewhat of a newbie here so this may sound like a dumb question. Those of you who have had your fish jump and carpet surf; what type of hood, if any, do you have? It seems like if you had a hood with a front and both sides, you could cover the back with some sort of egg crate or screen vertically. Is this no good?
I was hoping to house a firefish and a watchman diamond and continualy read about their tendancy to examine your carpet.

Thanks,
Grizzy
 
I hate to say this but I regret adding a Harlequin Tusk to my reef tank. It is a favorite,but it eats emerald crabs and of course peppermint shrimp.It has been there for several years,but those dam aips just creep up on you.I have a nice supply of them ,that I would like to use my peppermint shrimp on.They have eradicated all aiptasia in my sump,where they live. I will try a pearlscale first,but I don't want to get off topic. In a 220 FO tank,I once purchased a beautiful Broom tail wrasse which bullied triggers and to my disbelieve ate a 10" snowflake eel.Going further back,I purchased a 12" Picasso trigger,boy was it beautiful,but you know the rest of the story. Anthony
 
1. Angels - Can't seem to keep them alive.

2. Tangs - too big for my 60 gal tank, plus I don't want anything that won't live on flake and frozen brine.

I have a flame hawk, bi-color blennie, and a Purple Stripe Pseudochromis. Theu all seem to get along. The Pseudochromis used to think he was tough stuff till he tried he found out the blennie and hawk can take care of themself's just fine. Sill looking for a 4th fish that will work well with the three I have.:thumbsup:
 
Purple lobster. This guy is like the devil incarnate.

Say goodbye to your shrimp and they are tough to catch. Trying my 2nd type of trap and still no luck AND of course he made his nest right in the middle of the bottom of my reef.
 
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