What is your most regrettable fish purchase? - Page 11 - Fish for the Planted Aquarium

treepimp · 08-29-2006, 05:27 PM

sae's definately...Bought 8 through mail order to clear up my bba. I don't even think they tried to taste it. Five died shortly after I got them. I still have 3 takin' up space in my tank.

sithspawn · 08-29-2006, 08:44 PM

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Originally Posted by importracer

Years back, I recieved a nasty shock from an electric catfish....The bastard was only a juvenile at 4inches....I mean this guy was small so he could'nt really "SHOCK" me, right, WRONG....Scenario:55g, bare, just him.....He was at one end, and I was the other....I was scrubbing algea off the glass....All of a sudden I felt jolt of something running through my arms to my shoulder....Obviously it was the catfish....My arm froze for a split second and then was released.....

This reminds me of this LFS I go to for my equipment. I was explaining to them about my black ghost knifefish in my tank living with all sorts of smal fish and catfish and cories. I got it when it was about an inch long and it was stocked together with neons which were all still alive after a week so I bought it. I explained to them to their amazement that it didn't attack or eat anyone of my other fishes even till it grew to 8" long. And soon the topic turned to the fact that this fish gives out a weak electrical field to hunt, suddenly all the sales people eyes turned to one of the salesman....Then some one said "If you wanna know about eletricity, ask that guy. The idiot stuck his hand in a tank full of electric catfish.....like 50 of them." I'm just trying to imagine what it felt like...........

sithspawn · 08-29-2006, 08:56 PM

SAEs are crap and terrorist in my tank. They are greedy beyond belief and useless. Enuff said about them.
Black emperor tetras were another pain in the a** fishes for me. They were nice looking but so much of problems taking care of them....They end with diseases easily after a few months and they are the only fish to get they're mouths chopped of by their tankmates, they were running around with their lower jaw missing etc. This is over 3 batches after a few weeks every batch had died. I start with 10 of them and eventually in about a month one after another......they are all dead, but the worse part is having to treat them in a nano, it was expensive since they took turns to have problems....Mind you I have penguin tetras, neons, cardinals, danios etc...none of them get beat up or sick.......or disfigured....losers......

cs_gardener · 09-17-2006, 07:46 AM

My worst fish was one I didn't actually buy. I bought a 44 gallon corner tank through an ebay auction and they asked if I wanted their 6 fish. Without thinking

I said sure and aquired 5 nice fish and a devil. The devil was a 6" pictus catfish that would eat anything it could fit in its mouth, including 5 of my 10 long finned danio that I moved from a 5 gallon tank to the 44.

It took me several days to figure out my fish were disappearing as its hard to count the fast swimming danio through plants. Finally I did and I had a horrid time catching the catfish and then it got its barbs stuck in the net (and nearly my hand). Thankfully a local fish store took it, and boy was that thing FAT

from eating my danio. Glad to see the last of that fish, and yes, I am now much more carefull about checking out any fish that I acquire.

lailastar · 09-18-2006, 07:02 PM

The fantastic red devils...............

Their name really should have said it all. I bought them to help me with a livebearer issue. Having had mostly peaceful fish before I thought I could handle a little carnage. What I wasn't prepared for?

. Fish that attack each other, bite pieces of other fish off-without eating them or killing them even. A 2" fish attacking my 13" pleco. My big fat peaceful pleco. Right back to the lfs. Strangely enough? I was sad to see them go- they were gorgeous fish

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David W. A. · 09-28-2006, 01:48 PM

Silver Dollars. Devastated most of the plants in 1 month - no one told me what they ate, how was I supposed to know?

fresh_newby · 09-28-2006, 03:33 PM

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Originally Posted by iris600

Question, will ottos eat hair algae?

no get a bunch of amano shrimp they will eat it
Or rosy barbs...other than that nada

fresh_newby · 09-28-2006, 03:35 PM

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Originally Posted by mlfishman

Endless Shrimp Special @ Red Lobster....Musta caught something bad....couldnt keep solid food down for 3 days after.....never again

hahahaha pretty funny. Now THAT is a bad fish purchase! lol

Mine was the cardinal tetras I won on aquabid. He sent them to me and all 15 showed up dead. I feel bad to this day...not for the money, but because the dude didn't bother puting in a heat pack and it was cold so they died.

fishtk75 · 10-04-2006, 02:35 AM

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Originally Posted by cs_gardener

My worst fish was one I didn't actually buy. I bought a 44 gallon corner tank through an ebay auction and they asked if I wanted their 6 fish. Without thinking

I said sure and aquired 5 nice fish and a devil. The devil was a 6" pictus catfish that would eat anything it could fit in its mouth, including 5 of my 10 long finned danio that I moved from a 5 gallon tank to the 44.

It took me several days to figure out my fish were disappearing as its hard to count the fast swimming danio through plants. Finally I did and I had a horrid time catching the catfish and then it got its barbs stuck in the net (and nearly my hand). Thankfully a local fish store took it, and boy was that thing FAT

from eating my danio. Glad to see the last of that fish, and yes, I am now much more carefull about checking out any fish that I acquire.

The same problem the pictus catfish eat all my new rainbows.

alexuci · 10-18-2006, 12:38 AM

cichlids.
I'm a beginner and I didnt know what i bought until i notice that these monsters were chasing and nibbling on my goldfish and my guppies and danios resulting in several fatalities. I did a bit a of research and realize that these monsters are called CICHLIDS. I tried to get them out my 100 gal tank but it is impossible because they are very good at hiding in little holes.