What's the one fish you regretted buying the most?

[kirinreef]

bicolor blenny, liveaquaria says its reef safe, however it starts to pick my acans.

 

[Dragon52]

Any Clown, they get mean as heck & attack you everytime you put your hand in the tank. lol

 

[biggie4jets]

There are too many to list .

blue velvet damsel , potters Angel , snowflake eel , tomato clown pair.

Why a potters angel?

 

[Hercaluis]

Coral Beauty .....it was not messing with my corals but kept nipping at my clam

 

[jordan9095]

blue spot jawfish for constantly rearranging everything on the sandbed. golden angel for eating coral

 

[Tony616]

Hawkfish, gotten aggressive I have to remove rocks to catch him

 

[Jesterrace]

Hard to narrow it down to just one but any of the following could qualify:

Flame Angel-Aggressive Jerk to tankmates (went after my firefish within about 10 seconds of being the in the tank) and started nipping at my Hammer and Frogspawn to boot
Red Head Salon Fairy Wrasse-Went after everything in the tank after a week
Snowflake Occ Clownfish-Went after everything in the tank and ended up contributing to the death of my Scissortail Dartfish and Possibly my Purple Firefish
Yellow Tang-Took a chunk out of my Coral Beauty and used it's scalpel to put visible cuts on my Coral Beauty Dwarf Angel.

Won't get any of them again

 

[Bill Bolton]

I have 2 that I grew to hate equally
1. Electric eel..... brush up against it .... just once!!

2. Juvenile African Lungfish....
They are forever hungry.

 

[725196]

My clown fish. My wife and kids wanted them so I got them. Jerks bit me whenever I am cleaning the tank. I get lots of little marks and sometimes they draw blood.

 

[Crustaceon]

#1 Marine Betta. Gets big. Hides constantly. Nothing like a fish you’ll barely see that substantially adds to the bioload of the tank.

#2 Saddle Valentini puffer. “Test bites” everything. Fish, snails, crabs, acros.... It’s like it thinks “Hey, I like the polyp extension on your BC Spainbow! CHOMP!!! Oh, that’s not food... Maybe if I... CHOMP!!”...You get to live with my snowflake eel in the other tank buddy. I hope you like kenya trees. Go nuts.

 

[The guppy guru]

The one fish I regret buying the most was, my blue fan tail Moscow guppy. I regrets this purchase because this fish although very beautiful he was small and didn’t get along with the other fish and two days later I found him dead stuck to my power head, because the clown fish had killed him.. If I ever get the chance to get another one I will buy as many to acclimate so that they can at least hold their own.

 

[van7271]

This whole discussion just proves that fish like people have their own personalities. A lot of the fish that are in the discussion are supposed to be reef safe or very docile fish but you can’t judge a book by its cover. Got a pseudochromis fridmani that was very calm until he became an adult. Now he is the bully of the tank.

 

[TonyD1988]

blue throat trigger by far. He took out numerous fish including a male and female bird wrasse couple. Such a jerk.

 

[Simply__J]

Lemon Damsel. Just caught him. He's currently in solitary confinement. Charged with territorial aggression towards every other fish most recently harassing the newly added Lawn Mower Blennie preventing him from doing his job.

 

[Lindaanne60]

Fire fish, mine just hides all day

I had one did the same thing. Never saw it hardly.

 

[Zionas]

Sure they are among the hardiest wrasses but wow, you’ve had them for more than 10 years. Grats! Do they jump a lot?

 

[Zionas]

That must have sucked! Did it have visible signs of disease when you got it? I heard Potter’s are a pretty difficult species among the dwarf angels.

Would you get another one or would you try something easier like a Coral Beauty, Flame, pygmy, or Half Black?

My dream angel is either the Flame or Joculator, but heard Flames are a bit tricky depending on their condition at the time of time purchase.

 

[Magellan]

This whole discussion just proves that fish like people have their own personalities. A lot of the fish that are in the discussion are supposed to be reef safe or very docile fish but you can’t judge a book by its cover. Got a pseudochromis fridmani that was very calm until he became an adult. Now he is the bully of the tank.

Was thinking the same thing. I have 4 fish, and they all came up over and over on this thread! 6 line wrasse, springeri damsel, and 2 clowns ;Hilarious

My thinking was that all the fish were semi aggressive, and could all hold their own. It’s been about 15 months now and my tank is peace on earth.

really love my 6 line btw.

 

[Crustaceon]

Another fish... Behn’s Damselfish.

Starts off cute and becomes a monster.

 

[palbert_95]

Not a fish but I regret getting a Coral banded shrimp. he was a little aggressive the first couple days towards my firefish but the firefish finally found a hiding place on the opposite side of the tank, since then everything was perfect until 2 nights ago that i noticed my royal gramma had been attacked(his tail fin was cut in a weird angle) then i noticed him slowing down for a couple hours, i came back from work to find him lying down in a corner with all his fins torn to pieces and he was barely able to move, I was looking from a couple feet away and saw the shrimp go after him, i came over and scooped the shrimp and put him in a different container and took him back to my LFS. came back and my Gramma only made it a couple hours after that and then he passed (R.I.P) he was my favorite fish so it was a bummer and thats the reason i regret getting that shrimp instead of a Cleaner shrimp or a Fire shrimp