Since I'm into nano reefs, they become a nuisance.
No Second Chances: Is there a fish that you swear you will never own again?
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stalkem
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Flame2hawk
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Ill take ‘em!
jayala12
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I had one that bullied two clowns to death and was constantly nipping at all my coral. He would also attack snails and shrimp. It took me two weeks to catch the little bugger
Powder blue & brown tangs - ich magnet!
Ok, add an Achilles tang to the above list but she’s so beautiful and I’m a sucker…Dooh!
Ok, add an Achilles tang to the above list but she’s so beautiful and I’m a sucker…Dooh!
Flame2hawk
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I’ve got PB’s and Achillies in my large tanks….but not together. I do have a zebra tang with my PB and they do jostle every once in a while but overall are ok. They pretty much leave everyone else alone…
bitstream
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Yasha Goby. Won't buy one ever again. I bought it, plopped it in the tank, and it immediately disappeared. In the time I had it I only saw it once for about 5 seconds. After a long while, I went searching for it, figuring it was dead in small cave in the rock work... aaaand nothing. Nowhere to be found. At some point I was cleaning the tank and found what was left of it. Apparently the idiot swam into holes on the return eyelet (god knows how) and got itself stuck INSIDE THE EYELET. The fish basically pressure washed itself to death.
What an absolute waste of $80. Stupid fish. Never again.
The other fish I've had bad luck with are Purple Firefish. Both times I got young ones. Since they don't have long lifespans, getting a younger one means more years of enjoyment... in theory. Both of mine croaked while still in a quarantine or observation tank. And they were quarantined months apart, not in the same tank at the same time. There were other fish present both times, so no ammonia spikes or aggression that I could tell. One day, a week or so into quarantine on the first one, it was just sitting there kinda motionless when I went to bed. Next morning, it's sitting upright in the same spot, it didn't flop over. It was just sitting there in the same place place. Dead. The other one I got a couple months later... I don't know. It would just hide most of the time, then stopped eating, and after a few weeks... gone. Neither firefish would swim around and show themselves off like my normal firefish do. Both were insanely timid and dreadfully boring. Shame, since they're beautiful. I won't buy another after two rounds of bad luck. In case anyone was wondering, the other fish in QT/OT with both of these made it out just fine.
Honorable mention is the naked clownfish. I tried two of these (again at different times) and both were aggressive little jerks. Far worse than any other clown I've owned. One of them bit the whole tail off a firefish. I then put the clown in timeout for weeks, the firefish grew a chunk of its tail back, and I figured the clown would have learned its lesson so let it roam free. Lesson learned? Nope. By end of day, firefish's tail is back to the nub. Ended up trading the clowns for some corals. Naked clownfish, never again!
What an absolute waste of $80. Stupid fish. Never again.
The other fish I've had bad luck with are Purple Firefish. Both times I got young ones. Since they don't have long lifespans, getting a younger one means more years of enjoyment... in theory. Both of mine croaked while still in a quarantine or observation tank. And they were quarantined months apart, not in the same tank at the same time. There were other fish present both times, so no ammonia spikes or aggression that I could tell. One day, a week or so into quarantine on the first one, it was just sitting there kinda motionless when I went to bed. Next morning, it's sitting upright in the same spot, it didn't flop over. It was just sitting there in the same place place. Dead. The other one I got a couple months later... I don't know. It would just hide most of the time, then stopped eating, and after a few weeks... gone. Neither firefish would swim around and show themselves off like my normal firefish do. Both were insanely timid and dreadfully boring. Shame, since they're beautiful. I won't buy another after two rounds of bad luck. In case anyone was wondering, the other fish in QT/OT with both of these made it out just fine.
Honorable mention is the naked clownfish. I tried two of these (again at different times) and both were aggressive little jerks. Far worse than any other clown I've owned. One of them bit the whole tail off a firefish. I then put the clown in timeout for weeks, the firefish grew a chunk of its tail back, and I figured the clown would have learned its lesson so let it roam free. Lesson learned? Nope. By end of day, firefish's tail is back to the nub. Ended up trading the clowns for some corals. Naked clownfish, never again!
Very cool - congrats! Beautiful fish though.
I have an Achilles for 3 years now and she was the last fish added. She got ich a month ago, out of the blue!
Jackalope12
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I just bought one can I ask why?
BillFish Coral Lover
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What’s a ccb?
200 gallon tank and above don’t count in my book. You can have just about any fish you want and make it work. Some guy said Harlequin Tusk above - must be a monster tank, but yeah, I can see that.
BillFish Coral Lover
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+1 on tomato clown. Big brute to all tankmates.
I also had another clown that was sooo nasty to me. It bit me constantly! $@)%+#ing fish.m! I have a picture somewhere of my forearm all red and inflamed with probably 100 bites taken out while working on scaping one time.
Not saying I won’t get another clown, but not a tomato.
I also had another clown that was sooo nasty to me. It bit me constantly! $@)%+#ing fish.m! I have a picture somewhere of my forearm all red and inflamed with probably 100 bites taken out while working on scaping one time.
Not saying I won’t get another clown, but not a tomato.
sarcophytonIndy
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Cael Gallery
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Agree that tank size helps with aggression, but often an aggressive fish in a 200 will still be quite aggressive in a 600g or something. I think it's more so that dottybacks are territorial fish in the wild, they'll often claim an isolated rocky area or a little coral bommy as their home. The thing is when kept in 2-3-4 foot tanks, that area is roughly the size of their territory in the wild and they see the entire tank as belonging to them. Hence, they bash all their tankmates. But if you give them a long enough tank they're fine, since they're not viewing the other fish as being inside of their territory all the time.
vlangel
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For me, it's seahorses! Don't get me wrong, I loved them the 7 or so years that I kept them. However, I am older now and want easier fish to keep. It's not hard to be successful with seahorses, but one has to be attentive to their special needs of excellent water quality and a specie only tank.
I have a blood orange clown, Maroon female x percula male. She’s got an attitude but not that angressive and I’m convinced she just did not accept her male partner because he stays small. My percula pair are both big, and swim together. Love the blood orange look, deep orange red color. Just put them in a new tank with a bubble anemone and the female hosted the anemone in a week. Anenome and female clown have a better relationship than with the male
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