Things You Wish You Never Put In You Tank!

[ReeferRob]

Hey guys saw this on my local forum and thought it was a fun thread. So it might be fun to do here.
Please tell us your regrets and WHY!

I wish I never put a ............... in my tank.
I regret this because it stairs at me funny when I am naked..............
You get the idea!

 

[Poseidon]

Green Star Polyps! 'Cause they GROW AND GROW AND GROW!

 

[ReeferRob]

Green Star Polyps! 'Cause they GROW AND GROW AND GROW!

I thought you called them the "Green Star Plague!"

 

[revhtree]

XENIA, Flame scallops, Choc Chip Stars!

 

[ReeferRob]

XENIA, Flame scallops, Choc Chip Stars!

Why what happened?
Lets try and keep it fun, but also so others can learn why or why not to do the same.

 

[revhtree]

Oh yea sorry...

Xenia = Very pretty, but also spreads like weeds and takes over everything.
Flame Scallop = Very cheap and pretty, but die quickly in captivity.
Chocolate Chip Starfish = Cool looking and cheap, but will eat corals or whatever it can get on top of.

 

[rdvab]

RBTA lays on and kills anything you want to keep.The more I tried to move it the more it split,finally after 9 splits in 2 months I tore it down and took 'em out

 

[Burks]

The sand I'm using now. Thought it would be more "aragonite" like in packing but sadly, it is not. Stuff is a freaking pain. The littlest amount of flow makes it fly all over the place.

 

[jc5205]

Mushrooms................

 

[reef-nut]

Mushrooms................

WHY????

 

[Poseidon]

I thought you called them the "Green Star Plague!"

I do!!! They get crazy, and really HARD to get rid of if you don't keep them separate.

 

[lReef lKeeper]

pistol shrimp ... his digging has caused multiple rock slides that have killed a few very expensive fish !! i can never find him when i redo the rock work either.

 

[scrmbld33]

longspine urchin, was only 3inchs spike to spike, now at leat 10 inches. one of my favorite creatures but knocks frags down (just knocked a milli into my frogspawn, hope he makes it) moves rocks, and poops on the hairy mushrooms for some reason, he will be going to a new home soon

 

[Tinker]

hermit crabs - they knock over everything including my acan on top of my shrooms killing the acan and ate my feather duster cluster
chaeto - gave me hydroids even though I dipped it before adding it to my refuge
rock rubble - came with flatworms
turbo snail - grew 1 1/2 inches in 3 months and puts out more poop than 10 fish.

 

[ReeferRob]

Anyone else?

 

[rocko918]

Sea Grass Wrasse- He/she was thought to eat zoa eating nudis, maybe it did maybe it didn't but now he is a HUGE pain in the butt. It flips over frags, knocks over frags, anything in it's way he like to push around. He digs in the sand to flip over things looking for pods. I have tried to get him out but no go. Upgrading now so he will not make it in the new tank. Every day i have to flip frags back over.

Green Cap - spreads like crazy, kills other frags. Hard to get out. Best bet is to remove the rock.

Green star polys- Spreads like made. I have scraped the rock with a chisel and left a piece the size of a pin, it's back!!!

Green Povona, like cap it spreads fast and have sweeper that sting and kill.

Galaxia - looks good but again spreads fast and kills with its sweepers.

shrooms- spread fast, cover and kill.

 

[divecj5]

Diamond sand sifter goby - Kept the sand bed nice and clean. Stayed on or around the sand bed while sifting when I first got him. Before I sold him, his favorite activity was grabbing a huge mouthful of sand and sifting at the TOP of the tank. All of the corals just loved the

 

[LorenK]

My hand that happened to get jabbed with a piece of live rock. It swelled a bit and took forever to heal.

I use those long gloves now.

Xenia and GSP are great. Just keep them on rocks where they cannot spread. My yellow polyps are going crazy now...I'm fragging them for $5 a plug, they are great starter corals and I've gotten a lot of requests...I'll do the same with GSP and Xenia.

 

[Leishman]

AEFW, red bugs and Monti eating NBs (All gone now, lesson learned there)

 

[revhtree]

Coral - It's addictive and expensive.