Fish you have/had kept but wouldnt keep again

[Currdawg12]

i have a yellow tang, hippo tang, 3 chromis, 3 anthids, two clowns, diamond goby, salfin tang, six line wrasse, and yellow wrasse and i love them all and have never had a problem out of any of them

 

[guillermo2100]

Bat fish

Why ? Because it died ?

 

[BigRed78]

I mean I’m not totally against keeping them again but I won’t mix them with smaller fish any more. My ocellaris clownfish turned out to be a bunch of jerks. Once they got about a year old they started harassing everything. Even my juvi harlequin tusk. They also used to bite me whenever I put my arm in the tank.

 

[gapgawwd]

Flameback angel, He use to terrorize my fish. One day he went at my Yasha and met his demise from the pistol shrimp.

 

[iamacat]

WOW, after reading this post I'm afraid to put any fish in my tank. Actually I've had a lot of these fish before with very little problems. The one exception would be a Tomato Clown. That thing would attack me every time I put my hand in the tank. I took care of him though. How yo ask? Well every time I put my hand in the tank I went after him, I would flick him with my finger and pock him with whatever I had in my hand. He would try to hide in his anemone and I would still poke him till he would leave his anemone and hide in the rockwork. After a while any time I put my hand in the tank he would run and hide. If I seen him stick his head out I would go after him, I was relentless.

Oooo I love when I connect on a good flick. I’ve been running this method with my snowflake that went loco. So far Less bites, but I’ll se how much glue I have on my fingers when I place my frags next week. She’s loves to time it right after I break the film and try to hold it in place. Disrespectful

 

[Sigmund]

Orange Banded Pipefish. Have lots of success with Blue Stripe and Red Banded, but the orange I have not had success keeping alive. In a very mature reef with providing live food daily.

Clowns - mean and for me not very interesting. My first saltwater fishes ever pair of Percs that lasted 10 yrs. did love both of them though.

Any Tang. Just don’t care for them.

sure I won’t make a lot of friends with this post.

 

[SeniorReefer]

Damsels of any type, hawkfish of any type, any zebrasoma Tang.

I cant agree more

 

[Mothys mixed reef]

for me my darn blue cheek goby keeps messing,sand all over my lobo corals Six line wrasse was a bully too

 

[LeftyReefer]

Worst thread ever to read before shopping for fish.

Looks like I'm gonna have a tank of just snails.

 

[knightnsd]

Definitely a Pixy Hawkfish. The one I have right now has already killed one wrasse and took a huge chunk out of another. I can’t catch him without breaking down my tank. I didn’t think they were supposed to be this aggressive. Too bad because I like him otherwise.

reminds me of a strawberry hawkfish I think it was called that I liked and think I will avoid now as I would hate to lose any of my wrasses

 

[Daniel@R2R]

sixline wrasse for me

 

[costaricareef]

Great thread. Hadn't seen it. I once had a Green Moray (Gymnothorax Funebris). Small, about a foot long. Grew quickly to almost 3 feet and super thick, and ate EVERYTHING. Beautiful fish though. Don't do it unless it's a very big tank and you don't mind her eating the fish.

 

[muzikalmatt]

Bicolor blenny. Absolutely love his personality, but he eats my corals. So far he's destroyed a platygyra and a stylophora and is currently nipping at my green slimer and a jack-o-lantern lepto. I've tried overfeeding, but once these guys get a taste for coral they won't stop.

Why they are sold as 100% reef safe is completely beyond as I'm not the only person who's had this problem. There are too many other types of blennies that don't eat coral for me to get one again. Plus a tailspot is way more colorful.

 

[i cant think]

Damsels (Aside from most Amphiprion)
Zebrasoma tangs (Unless I get my hands on an extremely rare Rostratum)
Any Eel
Sixline wrasses
Jade wrasses
Small Possum wrasses

 

[Aquaman11]

Moorish Idol. Had one for a about a year. Ate very well but began to get thinner over time and eventually died.

 

[Pearse73]

Bangaii cardinal. What? Is probably the reaction of most people but bear with me.
I went to work one morning leaving a happy peaceful tank. Came home that evening to a dead Chromis, a dead red Firefish, a Royal Gramma that was badly injured and a fairy wrasse in the same state. Both fish being attacked constantly by the cardinal. I caught it and dumped him on the sump until I could move it on. The two injured fish died the next day.
I will never ever have one of those fish in my tank again.

 

[Conchman]

Extra large Yellowtail Damsel, aggressive towards large clownfish, Volitan Lionfish, ate the Yellow Tail Damsel. In my defense, this was the early 80's, we still had a lot to learn...

 

[Cell]

Maroon clowns. Too big. Too mean.

 

[Gawlfa]

Any clown. My clowns love to bite me. I even had one that accelerated to attack speed so it could jump out of the water to bite my arm when I was reaching over the tank. I tend to call them curse words during water changes.

 

[Cell]

Never hurts, always startles me enough that I yank my hand up and make a mess.