What's one fish you regret ever having bought?

[Daniel@R2R Verified Admin]

We talk a lot about those "best" fish in our tanks. That might be the priest fish, the fish with the best personality, the best fish for doing a particular job... but what about the worst fish? That might be a fish that has been a bully, a fish that went rogue and ate your favorite coral, or the fish that just aggravates you for one reason or another. What say you? What's the fish you regret ever having bought? Why?

 

[Troylee]

You posted his mug shot

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

Not a fish but a tiger pistol shrimp! Bulldozed all night long, stole frags to decorate his cave, impossible to catch until I broke the tank down.

 

[CasperOe]

My six lyretail anthias' ... As beautiful as they are (... were!) i never really managed to get them to eat properly even with two different dry auto feeders and liquid food on tap. I blame my self, I knew i should have stuck with chromies in stead back then...

 

[tbrown]

 

[o2manyfish]

Maroon Gold stripe Clown Fish - Female Adult. This was in my 125 packed SPS tank. Everytime I reached into the tank and was anywhere near her area - Whack she nailed me.

Tried to catch her with nets -- No Go
Tried with Traps - No Go
Tried with Siphon - No Go
Tried with Wet Dry Vac - No Go


Finally opened my hand wide spread and reached right into 'her' area. She of course bit be in the meat between thumb and pointer finger. And when she bit down I yanked my hand back - Pulling the fish out of the tank and onto the floor.

She spent many years after that in an outdoor rock sump before she found a home at a classroom tank out in Palm Springs.

I hated that fish.

There have been angels here and there that have torn into corals. And I have always been able to easily catch troublemakers. But she was a pain.

Dave B

 

[RFGuy_KCCO]

Diamond Goby, for sure. Mine constantly tears up the gravel, even moving large quantities from one side of the tank to the other. He drives me nuts.

A more distant second would be my 3x Pajama Cardinals. They do nothing but hover in the water in one place. Pretty boring fish.

 

[Zach Mankowski]

Diamond goby. Sand sifter can’t keep anything on the sand bed. Also he has become a little aggressive as well in general with the other fish. Moves a ton of sand all over the place.

 

[Derrick0580]

My original pair of common occ clowns. Had them too long to get rid of at this point as my daughter is attached and named them. They are by far the most aggressive fish I own. They have been banished to their own fluval evo.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Right now, its between the desjardini tang and the Lavender tang, although my sailfin is starting to put the Lavender in its place.
The Dussomieri is in time out as it would not leave clown tang alone.
Im amazed as to How my tank devil the Purple tang has really mellowed out.

Desjardini (center):

 

[1112-425XL]

Red Stripe (Eibli) Angelfish, "reef safe with caution" means absolutely not reef safe!! He nipped at anything, zoas, gorgonians, anything with small polyps. Fortunately when he was relocated they all came back.

 

[bushdoc]

Powder Brown. Bullied to death numerous fish and initially I couldn’t even catch him to give him away to LFS.
Now he is more mellow and coexist with many other fish, including those which I introduced recently.He is the most active fish I have and gives me lots of joy, so I have forgiven him his deadly sins.

 

[Townes_Van_Camp]

This one, Lizzy Borden.

 

[vtecintegra]

Roland's Damsel. Suppose to be peaceful, but was a terror. Took months to catch it.

 

[OscarHaglund]

Coral beauty. Supposedly the most reef safe of the dwarf angels and still ate several corals before i caught it. It’s not even very nice looking

 

[Wolf8895]

Melanurus wrasse. Laid waste to my CUC for some reason.

 

[redfishbluefish]

Blue Velvet Damsel......a devil fish. Beautiful fish, but after murdering three of my other community fish, it was removed and put into a witness protection program....a friend's tank that was an aggressive fish only tank. Other than clownfish, I've sworn off all other damsels.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Powder Brown. Bullied to death numerous fish and initially I couldn’t even catch him to give him away to LFS.
Now he is more mellow and coexist with many other fish, including those which I introduced recently.He is the most active fish I have and gives me lots of joy, so I have forgiven him his deadly sins.

The reason Powder brown is not one of my 200 tangs - same with scopas

 

[Gumbies R Us]

None yet, but I am sure in the future I will definitely regret some purchases!

 

[vetteguy53081]

Blue Velvet Damsel......a devil fish. Beautiful fish, but after murdering three of my other community fish, it was removed and put into a witness protection program....a friend's tank that was an aggressive fish only tank. Other than clownfish, I've sworn off all other damsels.

No kidding- that striking blue fish you love and quickly hate and then trying to catch the thing to get it out