Fish or Inverts That You Would Never Have Again?

[Rcpilot]

Curious if you've ever had a particular species of fish or invert in your reef, that you would NEVER have again. (reef pests obviously don't count here - none of us want those)

What species of fish or invert?
Why would you not have another one?

 

[steallife904]

Flame Angel!!!!!!!!!! I knew there was a risk going into my reef tank but had seen dozens in person and have friends with no issues............. I got the 1 that loved LPS, specially expensive rainbow acans. He whipped out my LPS. I recently moved so he was pulled from tank and will never try any angel or (WITH RISK) fish again.

 

[Rcpilot]

Yep, that would do it for me!! I love acans.

For me - it's the 6-line wrasse and any clown fish. They're aggressive and not all that community minded.

 

[Waters]

In a reef tank, any species of dwarf angel. Had to remove more than I can remember due to coral picking.

 

[tnc112105]

Shortspine urchin. Ate the silicone out of the corners of the tank (trying to get to algae I assume).

At least it was a cheap 55g, but I’ll never get another one, especially with a rimless tank.

 

[Webslinger]

feed your dwarfs angels 3 times a day and i've never had issues. they will a picked a little but never harmed anything.

 

[ScooterV]

cirolanid isopods
mantis shrimp
eunice worms
guerilla crabs
aptasia

But, on a more serious note, long spine urchin. Loved it otherwise, and it was awesome on algae, but it was a bulldozer and grew way too large.

 

[norfolkgarden]

Pistol shrimp 3".
Not a Randalls (they are supposed to be wonderful), but never again my problem.

 

[jurgenph]

peppermint shrimp.

they ate my ricordeas and zoas.


J.

 

[Amoo]

Dwarf Angel - Any of them. I bought a new one recently specifically for my sump. Never again in a DT.

 

[Jesterrace]

Flame Angel!!!!!!!!!! I knew there was a risk going into my reef tank but had seen dozens in person and have friends with no issues............. I got the 1 that loved LPS, specially expensive rainbow acans. He whipped out my LPS. I recently moved so he was pulled from tank and will never try any angel or (WITH RISK) fish again.

Definitely on my list to never have again for a combo of aggression and coral nipping. My Coral Beauty has been much better behaved than my Flame Angel was.

My list:

Flame Angel (aggressive butthead and coral nipper)
Solar Fairy Wrasse (aggressive butthead)
Firefish/Dartfish (way too much time hiding)
Clownfish (aggressive butthead)
Mandarinfish (too much hassle to keep up with it's dietary needs)
Yellow Tang (aggressive butthead)

 

[Jesterrace]

feed your dwarfs angels 3 times a day and i've never had issues. they will a picked a little but never harmed anything.

It does depend on the individual fish, but I feed my Coral Beauty seaweed once a day, and frozen LRS Reef Frenzy twice a day and it has pretty much left my Euphyllia frags alone (those are the only corals I have). Oh and it also helps to have them in an established tank with plenty of algae to graze on.

 

[mta_morrow]

Pistol shrimp 3".
Not a Randalls (they are supposed to be wonderful), but never again my problem.

Had a tiger pistol, AKA Bob the Builder. Removed and re-homed.

Now have 2 candy cane pistols. Much better behaved.

 

[biophilia]

yellow clown goby - voraciously chowed down on acro polyps

emerald crabs - manically pounced on LPS and NPS corals every time I attempted to feed them. Injured one of my dendros by digging into its mouth to consume the food that was inside.

 

[jurgenph]

yellow clown goby - voraciously chowed down on acro polyps

OH yeah! forgot about that one. my kids called him acrokiller.


J.

 

[Rcpilot]

emerald crabs - manically pounced on LPS and NPS corals every time I attempted to feed them. Injured one of my dendros by digging into its mouth to consume the food that was inside.

I forgot about this one!
I had one that was really cute when it was a baby. It grew up and started attacking .... everything. Fish, snails, shrimp... didn't matter. I watched it attack a nessarious snail on the glass. The snail reversed course and went for the safety of the 3 inch sandbed. The emerald dug the snail out and ate it.

This crab was always well fed. I really think it depends on the individual temperament. Mine was an opportunistic ambush predator.

 

[Muttley000]

Coral banded shrimp. Always on corals and a general PITA!

 

[roberthu526]

Foxface! Most push over ever

 

[Maritimer]

Periclimenes brevicarpalis. Peacock-tailed anemone shrimp.

Any anemone it's in will shrink, fade and curl up. It's just rough on 'nems.

~Bruce

 

[ca1ore]

Fish - I avoid most of the hyper- aggressive species like domino, three stripe or Sohal; or those that require herculean efforts to feed, and they still mostly starve (mandarins, Tuka anthais). Inverts - mainly the ones that will poison the tank (sea apples) or those that simply starve (flame scallop, most stars).