what are some fish that you will not try to keep again?

[Moort82]

Mine is a clingfish. I tried every possible food, live and dead, and it wouldn't take anything. The only thing it would eat where the eggs of my cleaner shrimp, whilst they were still attached to the shrimp. It was painful to watch it strike at them and they rightly used to shudder afterwards. In the end i took it back after a couple of days of this.

 

[krak256]

mine are blue spot jawfish, cleaner wrasse, and anthias. lost 2 BSJ due to white spot disease or BSJ disease, cleaner ended up starving even though it was eating prepared foods, and anthias are too difficult to constantly feed

 

[kellerexpress]

blue spot jawfish, they are escape artists and love to commit suicide on the carpet.
also along those same lines, yellow coris wrasse. Ive lost 3 to carpet surfing, even though my tank was covered.

 

[68551]

I'll never try another moorish idol. I was able to keep one alive for about a year but I wouldn't call that a success. Beautiful fish but horrible success rate. I'll also agree with damsels, I still can't catch the two I have now :lol: !

Get an acrylic fish trap, damsels are voracious eaters....Whatever food is their favorite turkey baste it into the trap....They are usually the first fish to go in....One of the easiest to catch IMO....

 

[Ralph ATL]

blue chromis-grow up to be aggessive and ugly, imho.
Talibots Damsel-peaceful my a$$
Tangs-just not my thing
Angels-just not my thing

 

[Kinetic]

Flame Angel
Blue/Green chromis - they're just poop machines, are aggressive, and when they get big they're ugly

 

[Orbitalshados]

Powder Blue Tangs- so pretty until the day they get ich and the day after taht, when they die. I work at an lfs and i'd say our customers have a succes rate of maybe 1/50. which maybe isn't saying much if our customers suck. I'm 0/1 myself.

 

[89Foxbody]

Purple/Strawberry Pseudochromis. Imagine the meanest, most hateful person you know, and multiply it by 10 and you have this fish.

 

[RiddlerJoe]

For me, I won't own a Copperband Butterfly, a Cleaner Wrasse, or Purple Pseudochromis again. Butterfly because they just don't live, Wrasse because they should be left on our reefs (and don't live), and Pseudochromis because it was the meanest fish I've ever had.

I know what your saying with the Purple Pseudochromis. MY wife brought one home for our nano tank and he beat the crap out of everything in the tank. I was forced to remove everything from the tank just to net him.

Riddler

 

[Amoore311]

Powder Blue Tangs- so pretty until the day they get ich and the day after taht, when they die. I work at an lfs and i'd say our customers have a succes rate of maybe 1/50. which maybe isn't saying much if our customers suck. I'm 0/1 myself.

Powder Blue success rates greatly depend on where your specimen is collected. If you aren't getting the Maldive caught fish you are pretty much screwed from the get-go.

 

[geaux xman]

another chromis bites the dust this morning. now 2 remaining from 7.

 

[romanr]

I'm loving my 6 blue/green chromis. You have to have a larger tank (100+) and feed 3 to 4 times per day. Or at least that is what finally brought me success with them.

My beef is with overly aggressive fish, mainly Damsels & clowns. Of course I think aggression many times comes from the small boxes we put these fish in.

I also don't think I will ever spend $200+ on any single fish specimen, as someone mentioned before, there are plenty of hardy inexpensive fish which could arguably be said to be just as beautiful as the more expensive(rare) fish.

 

[capt85]

Not fish but tubro snails.

They are little bulldozers in my 55.

Whatever is not glued down they will knock over in less than 24hrs.

 

[Outerbank]

Green chromis b/c they grow big and ugly. They are cute when small.
Tomato clownfish--it was too mean and always bit me.

I have an ORA fridmani pseudochromis in my tank and it is a model citizen.

 

[Romewhip]

Talbot damsels- they're pretty, but for some reason I can't get them to live.
Pencil urchin- mows everything in its path.

 

[MrKite24]

Jewel Damselfish

The meanest fish I've ever owned. I have had a maroon clownfish for 8 years and the damsel made the clownfish look like a saint.

 

[ALH]

Green chromis b/c they grow big and ugly. They are cute when small.
Tomato clownfish--it was too mean and always bit me.

I have an ORA fridmani pseudochromis in my tank and it is a model citizen.

beauty is subjective, but I don't think BG chromis' are ugly as adults.

 

[joejoe1055]

blue devil damsel
bicolor angel (mean and loved brain corals)

sallylightfoot crab for inverts

 

[Angel*Fish]

Jewel Damselfish

The meanest fish I've ever owned. I have had a maroon clownfish for 8 years and the damsel made the clownfish look like a saint.

:lol:

 

[Matt_Wandell]

I am surprised at the responses--I was expecting to see more fish that are just considered too difficult to keep long term.

I can only think of one species of fish that I've kept and will never try again. Ptereleotris grammica, the lined dartfish. They are just way too passive and skittish for captivity and never seem to get used to it, even in a dim tank, cool temperature, passive tankmates, multiple feedings, etc. Tilefish and ventralis anthias are easy in comparison.