What is the fish you regret putting in your tank the most?

ferchb · Jul 17, 2014

When I bought my tank it came with 3 convict damsels and a neon damsel. I don't know what they were thinking and I didn't know enough getting into the hobby to know what I was getting into. If the stripes weren't attacking each other they were teaming up on the neon.

jordan banks · Jul 17, 2014

Teal palys

Florida reefer · Jul 17, 2014

I had a beautiful flame angel. It was great until i put a bad *** maximus clam in. He ate it! After that, he turned into a little butthole. Started dominating every fish I put in, except for sailfin tang. The expensive one with the spots on its face, what do you call those again, desjardeeny or something?

saltyhog · Jul 17, 2014

Flameback angel. One of the safest of dwarf angels I was told.......ate an acan and would have destroyed my duncan if I hadn't trapped him and removed his sorry carcus.

jordan banks · Jul 17, 2014

Florida reefer said:
I had a beautiful flame angel. It was great until i put a bad *** maximus clam in. He ate it! After that, he turned into a little butthole. Started dominating every fish I put in, except for sailfin tang. The expensive one with the spots on its face, what do you call those again, desjardeeny or something?

Lol, just the way you wrote that. Sorry for your loss

Sully · Jul 18, 2014

Sacohen said:
If we have to stick to fish it would be a Bicolor Dottyback. (Mean sucker).
Getting out of fish it would be Coral Banded Shrimp.

I had to lol at this one. Fish for me is yellow tailed blue damsel. Had to tear the tank apart to get him out.

The CBS though might have been the biggest terror ever! It absolutely would go crazy on corals (everything) stealing food right out of the mouths at feeding time.

Girlsfish2 · Jul 18, 2014

Cinnamon clown for sure, bit my hand every time I cleaned the tank. After 3 years of dealing with the smiley faced bite marks I finally caught him and have him to the lfs.

Oliver94 · Jul 18, 2014

Bicolor dottyback !! Killed all my firefish,didn't leave them since day 1.. He always enjoy hitting my clowns,which will hit him back,and sometimes follow my chromis also.And the worst part of the story is that it is really hard to take him out.. still trying without removing all the LR

slate744 · Jul 18, 2014

Lunare wrasse. Eats all of my cleaner shrimp and a 40$ fire shrimp. Also I cant get a clam

Preyou · Jul 18, 2014

Domino Damsel

She killed her partner and now she leaves everyone alone except for my anthias ... She keeps the males under the rocks.

Mdeluca19 · Jul 18, 2014

3 stripe damsel (not a sergeant major)

TankCrasher · Jul 18, 2014

Purcula Clown....I've had Occ., Flame, and Tomato clowns and had them posture up but never bite. This little SOB will get me every **** time. He/She has even gone air bound to try and get me while feeding. Hate that little *********. If it wasn't for my 5yr old loving it, I would have bought a lion fish just for satifaction.

TankCrasher · Jul 18, 2014

Fire clown not flame clown

gacolt · Jul 18, 2014

my fairy wrasse mean as the day is long.i can not add any this with the same body shape he has killed all my other wrasses except my six line

KaneH · Jul 19, 2014

Matron clownfish and yellow tail damsel. Maroon would harass mates and the damsel would bite me when I wasn't looking.

Karen · Jul 19, 2014

I am too new to the hobby to have horror stories like those but I did find this well worth reading. Things to keep in mind before I buy some tank mates for my firefish.

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fishroomlady · Jul 19, 2014

sergeant major damsel. Bought two as little guys years ago in my FOWLR. Well, by the time they got bigger, they were vicious! I did have to tear my whole tank apart and remove all live rock to catch them. I'm sorry to say I was using very bad language during this process and had to ask my youngest to leave the room. I was soaking wet and it was a bad "tank" day that's for sure!

kireek · Jul 19, 2014

Dtech07 said:
Cherub Angel from HeLL! He doesn't touch the corals but kills fish with no issues.

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I had a cherub Angel for well over a year until my open brains began to decline.Fortunately they recovered after he was removed.This involved removing most of the corals and live rock.I am also a reluctant owner of a puffer that eats SPS and a yellow damsel who wants a piece of me.