KoleTang
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I've never heard of dottybacks being peaceful fish.
What is the fish you regret putting in your tank the most?
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I've never heard of dottybacks being peaceful fish.
Sixline wrasse for sure. Mine was completely psycho. Would've torn himself to shreds if he could've got a hold of em. Had a crew of damsels that wreaked havoc. Oh yeah, and when I just started was crazy/ignorant enough (it was a long time ago) to throw a picasso trigger in my mixed reef tank. That didn't work out well.
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TriggerThis
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Flame Angel
Bought him from another reefer with a beautiful reef tank that was being shut down. Supposedly never touched anything.
He was fine in my tank for three months, then the pecking began... Wouldn't ever eat or kill anything. Just nipped the corals constantly making them retract. Causing all the corals to be retracted all the time.
Took 5 months to catch him. One of the most beautiful fish I've seen.
I threw a party the day we caught him.
Bought him from another reefer with a beautiful reef tank that was being shut down. Supposedly never touched anything.
He was fine in my tank for three months, then the pecking began... Wouldn't ever eat or kill anything. Just nipped the corals constantly making them retract. Causing all the corals to be retracted all the time.
Took 5 months to catch him. One of the most beautiful fish I've seen.
I threw a party the day we caught him.
jesterisdead
Community Member
Blue/yellow tail damsels. Have three of them and want them out badly. Horrible fish and want to feed them to my carpet if I can ever catch them....
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AJsTank
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ahaha that's funny you plugged it with your finger
This Neon Damsel that is now ready for his trip to the LFS. Fish totally tore up my sand bed. Causing my rock to shift, nitrate spike and cyano 
All fixed but what a pita!
All fixed but what a pita!
lovemyreef
Active Member
Flame Angel for sure! 1 year plus with no problem then he got the taste of sps and it was over!
kv2wr1
Community Member
Miniatus grouper. The only fish he gets along with are a porcupine puffer and a sargassum trigger. I can't put anything else in the tank without him trying to kill it. Maybe an Undulate trigger, but that would be WWIII. He'll get white tiger stripes when he gets angry. I've tried the mirror trick and that just gets him more belligerent.
The picture below is not mine, but just for reference to show the "tiger stripes" that I'm talking about.
The picture below is not mine, but just for reference to show the "tiger stripes" that I'm talking about.
Mike J.
2500 Club Member
I really like my Tribal Blenny (Casper). I hope it doesn't start doing that! It's solid black with a clear tail. It only gets the blue markings when it's stressed, which is never, or after the lights go out it gets a little blue. It won't put up with much, it even took on the Powder Blue when I first introduced it. Being 5 - 6 inches long, it's the largest fish in the tank besides the PBT.
mandinga
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Every six line I've ever had was very hospitable community fish.
But before this crazy thing called the internet, I put a lunar wrasse in a 100gal reef only to watch him devour hundreds of dollars worth of prized inverts.
But before this crazy thing called the internet, I put a lunar wrasse in a 100gal reef only to watch him devour hundreds of dollars worth of prized inverts.
mfinn
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I added 6 chromis about 4 years ago. 5 are still left and have gotten big and mean.
Foxface had been in the tank for a year. Never touched any corals. Purchased an awesome elegance coral. A week later the picking began. I took him out and put him in the sump. It went all down hill. Coral never recovered and died.
dave9905
Community Member
My last aquarium I had a nice rose anemone so I added a small gold stripe maroon clown who ended up being the devil. He was not much bigger than an inch but killed everything until I finally caught him and donated him to my lfs
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