Any Fish you regret?????

[Reef keeper 103]

Are there any fish/invertebrates that you would never keep again?????

 

[Lemons]

I regret my hippo... little goober doesnt even come out when any humans are near the tank )))). Not to mention he's the king of the 100gallon, so hides 80% of the time and is a huge jerk

 

[Reef keeper 103]

…………………

 

[Slocke]

Just all tangs, clownfish, triggerfish, and hawkfish.

 

[Reef keeper 103]

Clown fish really???? Why?

 

[Coffee Soundboard]

Out of all my fish, I’d say my Gold Nugget Wrasse. I like him just fine, but he is nowhere near as colorful as I expected.

 

[Reef keeper 103]

inverts

 

[littlefoxx]

powder blue tang… that is the most aggressive fish ever! Re homed after she killed a tusk then went after my yellow tang.

 

[Rjukan]

Coral Beauty. Read about how peaceful they are, and a good tank mate... mine is a complete jerk. Kept my female clown up in a corner of the tank, would bully every fish, nipped the poor firefish pretty badly. Now that it's gone, everything is so happy. Clowns swim all over, every fish is out and about, peace reigns.

 

[TehBrainz]

My lyretail anthias

I have a pair and the male has been the bully of the tank for a couple years.

It took me adding a hippo and foxface to try to gain some balance in the tank. Even being twice its size the lyretail still flairs and tries to chase everyone

 

[steveschuerger]

Splendid Dottyback. Horribly aggressive. I got it when I was new in reefing. Never again.

 

[Reef keeper 103]

No clown tangs

 

[Baronen]

Tomini tang. Just a big meanie with new additions. My first tang so I have nothing to compare it to but I believe he has also directly caused the deaths of a few fish

 

[Sitcher6]

Clownfish here as well...once they became a mated pair and started laying eggs they became ultra aggressive to all other fish in the tank. Nearly bullied my yellow coris wrasse to death. I like clowns but now I think I'd only keep them in a very large tank or species only tank.

 

[Reef keeper 103]

I thought it was the most peaceful of all tangs?

 

[littlefoxx]

I thought it was the most peaceful tang

Naso is probably the most peaceful tang from my experience! Tangs are just mean lol mine do well in my semi aggressive to aggressive tank set up. Add a timid fish and they go after it like a wolf pack!

 

[TehBrainz]

He even tries to bow up against me!

 

[dstockwell]

My RBT, one day went from one to now 3.

 

[Naekuh]

I thought it was the most peaceful of all tangs?

Nah i have yet to see a cool tang... maybe the larger ones are peaceful, but all the one's ive seen once they declare the tank, the United Colony of Tangtopia, its pretty much GG.


But fish i regret and will never buy again...

1. 6 line wrasse.... dont even get me started on this spawn of hell known as the 6 line.
2. Orchid Dotty... These guys are ONLY cool for existing fish when introduced... after that, its GG, they always feel the need to jump the new guy in some sort of initiation right.
3. C. Rubius, aka the red longfin fairy wrasse... a COMPLETE A HOLE.
4. Chromis in groups... bah, actually Chromis in general because they will kill each other off.
5. All Damsels.... ugh... dont get me started on how nasty these little boogers are.
6. Lyretail Anthias.... these guys are evil as well. There are better and much peaceful Anthias to look at like the Carberryi, and Dispar.

As for Inverts...

1. ALL CRABS... sorry there is no such thing as a reef safe crab, you mean a partially distracted crab, which has not learned to munch on your expensive corals or killed any of your fish.
2. Boxer Shrimp... NOPE... they like to kill fish if they have the oportunity...
3. Cleaner Shrimp... you will NEVER be able to feed your corals with these boogers, once they learn your coral is a slot machine for food if they hit it enough like wack a mole.
4. Nerite Snails... whats the point in a snail if its 90% gonna crawl out of your tank and then commit seppuku.
5. Astera Snails... although i will still buy them, but i wonder how they made it though evolution and NEVER learned to flip themself over right.

 

[landlubber]

The Copperband Butterfly. They're docile, attractive fish but their dietary requirements aren't always straight forward and are so anti-aggressive that even fish making sudden movements seems to stress them out exacerbating the feeding issue further.