What was your first or biggest "newbie" mistake? | Tank Talk Thursday

[Iamonlyme]

Buying a Haitian nem!

 

[Iamonlyme]

Buying a cute little tank bred Maroon Clown, it was six weeks old. Now it's going on 11 years old and we refer to it as the "wife eating piranha".

I have it's sister lol

 

[mfief]

Buying a cute little tank bred Maroon Clown, it was six weeks old. Now it's going on 11 years old and we refer to it as the "wife eating piranha".

I bought a pair. They are still a pair but they think they are snow blowers and kick sand up that has covered half of my tank and dusted the rest

 

[FLipp]

added a mandarin second week. lol

 

[misoldier06]

Used Korean tap water. Lol.

 

[BSchlecht]

I have a feeling there is a lot of Mandarin stories out there. Such a beautiful fish most of us have a hard time staying away from them even if we know better

 

[Eienna]

Used Korean tap water. Lol.

I can only imagine...blech.

 

[BSchlecht]

Used Korean tap water. Lol.

I take it that it is worse then our typical tap water?

 

[svt stang]

putting xania in a sps tank..

 

[BSchlecht]

putting xania in a sps tank..

I made the opposite mistake. Tried to put SPS into a tank full of Xenia..

 

[Eienna]

I take it that it is worse then our typical tap water?

Yup...

 

[BSchlecht]

Good to know, fortunately I haven't ever had to find out the hard way

 

[Thomas Porter]

Please don't get mad,cause I had to laugh but I HAD A 5 INCH MAROON IN MY 75...HAD HIM FOR 2 YEARS. bought another after a move, meanest SOB on the planet. this was 15 yrs ago. They're so beautiful though

 

[DVeit]

I don't understand everyone saying "adding xenia to my reef tank" or "adding shrooms to my reef tank". I've had xenia and rocks full of all types of mushrooms for over a year in my 75g mixed reef. My xenia never leaves its rock (been in the same spot for over a year and hasn't spread a bit) and my mushrooms do spread around but are no big deal to remove if I don't like where they land. I'd say my biggest mistake buying a used tank with scratches and a bunch of equipment that at the time I thought were cool but turned out to be crap, and the scratches at the time I thought weren't a big deal now drive me nuts.

 

[NanaReefer]

Superman Shrooms baaaaad!!

 

[eliramos]

Superman Shrooms baaaaad!!

Hahahaha this answers the above statement perfectly

 

[DVeit]

Hahahaha this answers the above statement perfectly

Looks like time wasn't taken to take care of the problem before it got outta hand to me!

 

[PaulKreider]

Bought fish from petco online! lol

 

[NanaReefer]

Looks like time wasn't taken to take care of the problem before it got outta hand to me!

Easy for you to say while sitting behind your computer screen. You've NO idea what all I tried to control their growth. Please keep your judgmental comments to yourself.

 

[PaulKreider]

I don't understand everyone saying "adding xenia to my reef tank" or "adding shrooms to my reef tank". I've had xenia and rocks full of all types of mushrooms for over a year in my 75g mixed reef. My xenia never leaves its rock (been in the same spot for over a year and hasn't spread a bit) and my mushrooms do spread around but are no big deal to remove if I don't like where they land. I'd say my biggest mistake buying a used tank with scratches and a bunch of equipment that at the time I thought were cool but turned out to be crap, and the scratches at the time I thought weren't a big deal now drive me nuts.

I had xenia, wasn't a problem for awhile untill I tried trimming it back once. That's when it went out of control, any small tissue particles that arent collected settle and form new colonies. For me this ment hundreds of new groups starting up.