ray-the-pilot

Well my most regrettable fish purchase comes with a story.

Way back in the 1970’s I set up a really fantastic 50 gal. El Natural planted aquarium. I didn’t have any exotic plants, just Amazon swards, and Jungle Val but it was really densely planted and artistic. It got lots of raves at the time and was probably way ahead of its time.

Then I purchased three small Tinfoil Barbs.

At first everything was OK but eventually I noticed that my plants were being trimmed. Not a problem, since I frequently had to do that myself. Soon I noticed that small plants were being pulled out of the substrate. I began to look for the cause. A research of the literature at the time confirmed that Tinfoil Barbs were aggressive plant eaters! By this time each fish was almost 4 inches and I didn’t have the heart to cast them out.

I switched to plastic plants and enjoyed the fish for a few years.

OhioPlantedtankguy

cichlids bought them for the GF and had to tell her when the tank crashed and they died Still don't know why it crashed, i Under fed them, and i usually over feed, but they were only fed every other day but they always ate well at feeding time.

jaiko1975

Here's my sad story I purchased six black neon tetras and six neon tetras from pet smart...that was a months ago. I have left one black neon and 3 neon tetras... . the same day i got em home they started die on me one by one.as the story goes i noticed ick on my Serpa tetras and on my pleco time to panic.. thank god i had some ick treatment on hand. but almost lost all my fish stock in my 50g tank.





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50G several Amazon swords, Palms, 3 Serpa Tetras, 5 Zebra Danios, 2 Sunburst platties,2 Swordtails,9 head and tail tetras,1 rubber nose pleco,2 Cory cats. 20g 1 Jelly Bean parrot c

92cw12

i bought a green terror which was only 4inches and it killed almost everything 2*8 inch goldfish 16cm algae eater it didnt attack the 2 small kribs or my bolivian ram somehow then the green terror somehow ended up jumping out of its tank and died

benderisawesome

The most regrettable for me had to be kribensis. They're gorgeous and have such an interesting behavior. But once their eggs hatched they harassed every single fish I had in the tank. They wouldn't let the cories even come near the substrate. I had two banjo catfish and the kribs would go find their tails sticking up out of the substrate and they would pull them up out of the gravel and start nipping at them. I don't even have to tell you what they would do to my schooling fish (harlequin rasboras) They would even pester my 4 inch pleco. Thank god I had a spare 20g that I could set up so that they would have their own place, or else I would have had to take them back to the pet shop. Now they're as happy as can be, although if I get close to the tank they start staring me down like they think I'm gonna come eat their babies or something. But yeah if you're thinking about getting kribs I would recommend not having them in a community tank unless you've just got one gender.

Scipio

Mine was a CAE.. I had a 10g tank when I was a kid and had the 2 of everything in that tank

I had ugly rainbow colored gravel and some chessy deco in there including a stone turtle that I placed in there that was in my Mom's garden. Well every morning I would notice that I had some missing fish, it first started with the smaller tetras and I was wondering why I could never find them. I figured since they were so small that they were late night snacks for the bigger fish like the angels. But then the bigger fish started missing I started to wonder why I would never see any dead bodies.

Until one night I stayed up and went up to the tank with the lights out and shined a flash light in the tank.... to my horror I saw the freaking CAE dragging down my last angel fish under the stone turtle. I lifted the turtle and there were all of my dead fish ALL 20 of them dead!!!!

I was so upset I netted the CAE, dumped him in the toilet and flushed him
Well when I got up in the morning to go to school, I went to the toilet I saw the freaking CAE sucking on the toilet!!! He must have clamped before he got sucked down. Well I was young and really super mad at the time that I wanted him dead on the spot. So I gave him a bleach bath and I sure enjoyed (at the time) his death!!!! Meh... I'm not gona lie... I still don't feel bad about killing him

overboard

I have three female kribs in a 50 gallon tank and I have not been able to add anything else since. The crowntail betta that had been in there a year had to come out (they chewed all of his fins). I put in two baby angels, about the size of a quarter, and they killed and half-ate one in twenty minutes. They are beautiful, but they are definitely cichlids...

Sunstar

Probably platy... they are cute as a button, but they breeeeeed.

Dielectric

1. Red & Black Pacus
2. Some sort of Snakehead, took a chunk out of my forearm
3. Silver Dollars
4. Yoyo loaches, harassed everything in the tank
5. Serpae Tetras, all other fish in tank became tailess
6. Channel cats

most of these were made when i was a kid

eveliens

This has been a really interesting thread. Most of these fish I have always avoided due to their reputation, or I've had them and really, really enjoyed them (severums and paradise fish!).

I would have to say, I do regret buying Anomolachromis thomasi. Pretty much all of the literature I read said they are pretty peaceful (similar to kribs). These fish didn't read it obviously! I had two. Had to separate them because of beatings. Each one proceeded to pillage their respective tanks, harassing adult angels and gouramis and barbs. The smaller one eventually died, but I still have the larger one... in a mbuna tank! Nary a nip on him btw.

And the lampeye killies. Awesome little fish. Not so awesome in my water. One by one they faded away or had fungal infections.

Purple Spotted/Rainbow Gudgeons- they were cool until they went carpet surfing. No one warned me that they jump!

The rest of the fish I only regret because once they passed I could never find anymore. I adored my pair of checkerboard cichlids and have been trying to replace them for almost four years now. Likewise, I had a pair of thicklipped gouramis, and can't seem to find any healthy ones.