what's your worst purchase

[jgdelgado]

I was thinking back to when I began keeping fish and remembered a few terrible purchases that I made. This fish looked so cool and with out homework I ordered 4 of them thinking they are the best thing ever. WRONG!!!!! This is the worst deal I ever picked up. Known as the chaka chaka catfish. looks cool but does absolutely nothing. they just sit there. Lesson learned do your homework. :(

[warren126]

The rainbow wolf was my worst purchase keep him for about a month sold him to a friend nice to see during feeding time but after that he goes back into his coma stage in his cave

[ogre929]

I bought an octopus. It did nothing but eat snails and hermit crabs and hide where I couldn't see it. I bought a baby bamboo shark without seeing it eat. Poor little guy never started to eat.

[puffer_girl]

Hmmm... Mine would be when my boyfriend and I went to a Walmart/Kmart (can't remember which) and all of there fish were sick. There were 2 cute little (and I mean LITTLE) Oscars so we decided to "save them" from certain death. Still have them, and needless to say, they aren't very little anymore. Haven't "saved" anything since then!!!

[BostonPatriot]

Blue dempseys. 3 of them. I bought them because they look beautiful. Didn't know they didn't act like regular dempseys and get stressed very easily. All three croaked at 50 bucks a whack.

[MANGCH1]

i once got a bootleg rtc. that was freaking sky blue in color with NO red in his tail. died on the smallest guppy in its mouth. fcuking wack.

[loach43]

exodon tetras

[stotty]

:swear: F&$£ING Electric Catfish :swear: killed a snakehead 3 times its size and my marble goby :swear: :swear:

[DeLgAdO]

:swear: F&$£ING Electric Catfish :swear: killed a snakehead 3 times its size and my marble goby :swear: :swear:

that was dumb on your part :ROFL:

[perfect_e]

i feel the same way too! bro

[stotty]

that was dumb on your part :ROFL:
May I say in my defence you Hon nor that it came out of a community tank small than mine and I was assured it was I quote "harmless "what a load of :swear:

[jgdelgado]

dude that really sucks. I almost bought an electric cat. went for a chaca chaca though!!!!

[ROSS]

anything from petco , petsmart = bad purchase..... :D

[Hakon]

A while ago I bought two adult altum angels. Both died. Some time after I bought four new, and all died. The water was just fine...

[cmersits]

My worst has to be the Australian Arowana. I figures it would look cool to keep and silver and an australian together (like at the chinese food place by my house :D ) After thinking the whole thing out for a good 5 minutes, I figured hey I'm sure it won't make my life that much harder. The only problem was, was the size difference. The silver was ~6-7 inches and the australian ~3 inches, I figured they should be fine, and the aussie is just a baby so it will grow quick. Well moral of the story... Silver Arowanas are big, mean, hungry, nasty gluttons. But I still love him :ROFL:

Stupid Aussie cost me 30$ :(

[rust9000]

Mine was a black goast knife fish i let it out of its bag it swam straight into a castle and died the next day, i was not very small either about 6-8 inches. :(

[riggs]

mine is a black ghost too, i just got him a two weeks ago or so and now i have ick in my tank. he's been the only new addition so I figure it came in with him.

[guppy]

I once bought some kind of dwarf puffer, body size about as long as a nickel, I put it in with large angel fish, it was returned to the store very quickly, viscious little sod.

[DeLgAdO]

May I say in my defence you Hon nor that it came out of a community tank small than mine and I was assured it was I quote "harmless "what a load of :swear:

yikes!!!

never trust a fish that can produce 200volts

[DeLgAdO]

My worst has to be the Australian Arowana. I figures it would look cool to keep and silver and an australian together (like at the chinese food place by my house :D ) After thinking the whole thing out for a good 5 minutes, I figured hey I'm sure it won't make my life that much harder. The only problem was, was the size difference. The silver was ~6-7 inches and the australian ~3 inches, I figured they should be fine, and the aussie is just a baby so it will grow quick. Well moral of the story... Silver Arowanas are big, mean, hungry, nasty gluttons. But I still love him :ROFL:

Stupid Aussie cost me 30$ :(

oh yes very nasty indeed!! :ROFL:

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=2/medium/Picture_190.jpg (http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=2/medium/Picture_190.jpg)

[fishnutham]

my first attemt at a fish tank was a 10g and i had to have this eel i seen in the store no idea what it was or how to take care of it needless to say it died and my next purchase was a gold fish and a how to book dumb kid

[antbean90]

MY WORST PURCHASE WAS A BLUE CRAY FISH, I DIDNT SEE IT FOR ABOUT 5 WEEKS AFTER I BOUGHT IT, I THOUGHT IT HAD BEEN EATEN, BECAUSE MY REED FISH, AN ORNATE AND SENEGALESE BIRCHIR HAD ALL BEEN KILLED,I THOUGHT I HAD A MYSTERY KILLER AND THEN ONE DAY OUT THE BLUE I SAW MY CRAY FISH APPEAR FROM UNDER A ROCK OVER 2 TIMES THE SIZE HE WAS WITH MASSIVE CLAWS ABOUT 7 INCHES LONG! I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND GETTING ONE IF YOU HAVE BOTTOM DWELLING FISH AS THEY SEEM TO GO FOR THE THROAT.

[AngelicGreenTerror]

Mine would have to be Kribs, thinking 86 degree water would be good, and putting them in with a Spotted rafael catfish. The spotted rafael ate one of the kribs, the other died of the temperature to high.

[Cimmel1]

My worst purchase was a small tigrinus catfish. I dropped in the tank and a split second later my small 4" rtg aro had a fat belly. Poor little guy never even hit bottom :(

[Gr8KarmaSF]

Long ago when I was still learning about fish keeping, I bought 2 pacus and an oscar for my 45gal hex!!!

Happy ending was that nobody died, just returned them once they outgrew the tank.

[fishnutham]

Long ago when I was still learning about fish keeping, I bought 2 pacus and an oscar for my 45gal hex!!!

Happy ending was that nobody died, just returned them once they outgrew the tank.



ouch! hex shape fish anyone :)

[gomezladdams]

ouch! hex shape fish anyone :)
:ROFL:

[ridether]

I once bought some kind of dwarf puffer, body size about as long as a nickel, I put it in with large angel fish, it was returned to the store very quickly, viscious little sod.


My worst was a buffer fish. Which by the way I still have. I introduced the puffer to my elephant noise. I week latter the elephant noise was no where to be found. He had disappeared. I doubled checked the tank but still no luck. I made a special screen for the top part of the tank. I had heard of elephant noise get lonely and attempt to commit suicide by jumping out. I lost a elephant noise for a puffer. I think the bastard eat him. :swear:

[DeLgAdO]

My worst was a buffer fish.

How much did it lift??

[Micky_Fahaka]

I got 2 "small" Blue acaras, then after a while they were "BIG" Blue acaras and started bein dicks to my angels.....so they went back!

[AngelicGreenTerror]

How much did it lift??

:ROFL:

I'd like to know that myself.

[redtailfool]

Does this have to be about fish or does fish related products count?

Worst is the cheap hang on heater that i got from petland discounts. It toasted some of my cichlids. :swear:

[fishnutham]

me its those digital temprature reminder units damn things bought 5 of em after a while begain to notice the temps in my tanks were diffrent touch wise trashed them went back to the lcd ones at least theyre accurate

[Ash]

Well if this includes supplies the wrost thing I ever bought was a glass pets mart heater, didnt work I exchanged and that one didnt work so it happen 3 times then I got my money back and got a titanium hater or something works great. As far as fish go the worst fish I ever bought was an australian raimbow fish..... not only was it mean as nutz but it was infested with ick. Never buy fish from walmart...check them first =)

[rico488]

Buying a second Oscar.

[ghostknifefandustin]

the worst fish i have ever bought were neon tetras from walmart dont buy fish from walmart they are of poor quality and are raised in terrible conditions
:swear:

[Dovii_22]

The worst fish i bought or should i say won was a gold fish from them darn carnivals. Well it got big like 8 inches and it was with my texas/convict hybrid 4" well it ate all the food so my hybrid died. I gave the gold fish away!

[rallysb1tch]

Kuhli loaches. All they do is hide! They're too pretty to hide all the time.

[downset21]

I just bought a $3 baby green terror from either petco or petsmart, i forget which... and he'll probably be dead tomorrow because he was struggling today. I broke my own rule about not ever getting fish from either of those stores.

[TourniquetRules]

the worst fish i have ever bought were neon tetras from walmart dont buy fish from walmart they are of poor quality and are raised in terrible conditions
:swear:
My girl bought me 7 guppies from wallmart 2 weeks ago. Since then I've put in a few glass fish, a violet goby, a water frog, plec, and two catfish sharks. The goby and the guppies were bought at wallmart, everything else was Petsmart, and I'm down to 1 ******* guppie. :WTF:

[guppy]

What are they dieing of? Also what are your ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, pH levels. Last is a question I have to ask, did you remember to dechlorinate the water?

[TourniquetRules]

I did declorinate the water and when I add water when the level goes low I declorinate it before addition to the tank. The Ph lev is usually close to 6.5, Should it be closer to a balanced level of 7 or Is it better for my extreme mix of fish to have a higher accidity then 7? Honestly I'm a newbie at alot of this so I have no measurement tools for the first 3 of your level questions.

[guppy]

Your ph is okay, and since you dechlor that is not it, I would advise getting the set to do the ammonia,etc, tests, if your filter is not established those levels can climb quickly and kill the fish. That so many hardy fish die off suddenly makes me think ammonia. They showed no symptoms?

[freeskierrocket]

stupit convict for my african tank (you live you learn!!!), finally caught him and traded the darn thing in. also a compreccicepts, ate all my fry...... :WHOA:

[M|L]

I've had so many fish, I don't think I can even recall all the bad purchases.

The most recent one though, is buying a trio group of koi, bad idea..... they's definitely more suited for ponds.

[Cyclop3000]

Had a few disasters myself. But I have to say the stupidest thing I did was to buy a baby worl fish (about 3") and dump it in my 130g tank with fish almost all over 6" including oscars. We saw it about 5 seconds in the tank...

Filet mignon :)

[mauls]

My worst purchase was my RTC! Yes i love it and its beautiful, I knew they grew fast so i bought it at 2" when the rest of my fish were aroudn 5-6" Make a long story short, 2-3 months later, all the fish were gone in my tank cept for the redtail and oscar. It ate serously over $100 worth of fish. I still have the bastard, its in my 125 know with the big oscars and texas where it can't eat anything, and my 180 is back to normal : )

[concord]

A siamese fighting fish and an otto.... a retarded siamese fightin fish..... last thing I saw of the otto it was half way in the betta's gob. STUPID BETTA!!! :swear: :swear:

[Filthy Sanchez]

A 72 Chevy Vega, aluminum block with sprayed on not sleeved cylinders which wore off and the block melted. In the fish world a newt, it was cool just that I had tiger barbs and they nipped at his appendages.

[JPHerps]

A baby devil scorpion. My brown rhinopias had it in its mouth almost as soon as it hit the water. They were both really small (only about an inch) so I thought they would be fine together.

[Calgone]

They're cool, and they've got a nice personality.... but the Tiger Oscar (Riddick) I got was a fatboy. Kid straight up stole food from everyone else in the tank.

... and yes... I name all my fish after characters played by Vin Diesel.

[RHole]

I'm torn.

The wild angels I bought when I was a kid - they lasted almost a week before I took them back. They didn't eat, wouldn't come out of the corner. I stipidly put them in a 20 low. They couldn't spread their fins fully. I was cruel.

Then the two albino oscars - back when they were new, at $60 each at just 1 1/2" TL. I bought them a month before I moved from California to DC. I'd also bought a 100 g for them! They went back along with the aquarium (to sell used) too. In partial defense, I didn't know I was moving when I bought them.

[Filthy Sanchez]

They're cool, and they've got a nice personality.... but the Tiger Oscar (Riddick) I got was a fatboy. Kid straight up stole food from everyone else in the tank.

... and yes... I name all my fish after characters played by Vin Diesel.

Well at least we know he absolutely believes in god, he just absolutely hates the f*cker.

[jed3ell]

I purchased a Pbass that had worms coming out where he poops, he didn't have a appetite either.

[joeytoe]

my worst purchase, was my first TSN, I trusted the LFS guy to pick the best one. Next thing i know he wont eat anything an dies after acouple days. 25.00 wasted.

[mainy999]

Some kind of catfish I bought from a friend of mine. It ate everything, got huge and took over my tank. So I sold him to another guy. That fish was the bane of my existence.

[ewurm]

I bought a chinchilla for my GF for valentines 2 yrs ago. I kicked her out 1 year ago and of course, I was forced to take "Fred" . The little bastard throws wood chips everywhere and my LMB won't eat him.

[Xiao]

I bought a chinchilla for my GF for valentines 2 yrs ago. I kicked her out 1 year ago and of course, I was forced to take "Fred" . The little bastard throws wood chips everywhere and my LMB won't eat him.


LOL. OMG HAHAHAHAHAHHA

hmm. I recall spending over $400 trying to get those damn brycon cephalus to school... about 25 specimens later (maybe 6 weeks?) I had one left that grew from 2 inches to almost a foot (yes, they grow that fast) and the remaining bunch at the lfs weren't any bigger than 3 inches lol.

[gundam79]

Red tail cat. Grow from 1 inch to over 1 foot within 6 months, kill my RTG.

[redtailfool]

My worst fish purchase has consistently been feeder goldfish. I either start an ich epidemic from feeders, or a host of other parasites. The current planaria situation i have with my tank is from introducing feeders months ago. :swear:

[dougefresh]

the worst thing i ever bought was one of those african clawed frog......the lfs told me it could go with anything in the tank but in turn killed all of my fish.......i hated that thing............

[fisher12889]

I bought a chinchilla for my GF for valentines 2 yrs ago. I kicked her out 1 year ago and of course, I was forced to take "Fred" . The little bastard throws wood chips everywhere and my LMB won't eat him.
LMFAO!!!!! If you really wanna get rid of him get a school of pirhanas! btw, how big is the bass? I just got one a few weeks ago, about 3" and a smallmouth, about 4" and there AWESOME

[michael]

A $350 order from TFD. 15 of the 18 fish died.

[Gee]

A Needle Nosed Gar. It was an 8 dollar feeder fr my O's.:swear:

[sour_girl]

We bought a Paroon Shark and have a 125 gallon tank. Enough said.

[mudskipper]

5" electric blue M. johanni $20. A local brought it in to the lfs. I was keeping M. auratus with convicts without problem, so i figured if they are so close a species to the auratus, this would just be like a bigger one. whatever i could do to talk mysel;f into buying him. He had a perfect balence of vibrant metalic royal blue and black, that didn't bleed into eachother. It shreaded the fins on my convicts to no end. I geuss it was just being an affricxan. wish i could have kept it

[Timpon]

I've had two "worst" purchases.

1. A murray cod that I bought at 2". It did nothing but hid all day, and only came out to eat his tankmates when we weren't looking. Within 6 months, he was 15", and had demolished his way through over 1K worth of tankmates, including 2 leichardtis and a silver.

2. A 20" jardini. Didn't do my homework, so you can guess what happened. Went on a killing spree, in the process clearing the tank of a pair of much loved breeding dovii, a 12" blackbelt, 12" leporinus, oscar, synspilum and festae. Only surviving tankmate was a beaten up pleco

[Stone Like Fish]

a damn khuli loach, never saw it after it went in the tank...

[bpunisher18]

Hmmm I might be in the middle of a bad purchase right now , but we'll see. I picked up and EBJD for $70 and thought it was sweet so 1 week later I picked up 2 more , within the week they died and never having a fish die on me I didn't keep the receipt so I couldn't even get store credit even though both the guys at the LFS remebered me and the 2 big JDs I gave them for free were still there they couldn't help me so being the dummy that I am I bought 2 more and 1 died so out of 5 EBJDs @$70 a pop I only have 2 :( wish I wouldn't have bought them they are 2 weak

[sour_girl]

Hmmm I might be in the middle of a bad purchase right now , but we'll see. I picked up and EBJD for $70 and thought it was sweet so 1 week later I picked up 2 more , within the week they died and never having a fish die on me I didn't keep the receipt so I couldn't even get store credit even though both the guys at the LFS remebered me and the 2 big JDs I gave them for free were still there they couldn't help me so being the dummy that I am I bought 2 more and 1 died so out of 5 EBJDs @$70 a pop I only have 2 :( wish I wouldn't have bought them they are 2 weak


That sucks... I bought an EBJD about a month ago and its doing ok.. I have it in a little 10 gallon on my desk... grows so slow... I paid $30 for one... at one inch!!! I am so worried about putting him in my big tank eventually...

[rayman45]

ummm... thats tuff... im thinking when i bought 3 rtc's and my frt ate all 3 withen 3 hours

[rallysman]

A $350 order from TFD. 15 of the 18 fish died.
thats messed up. All of the fish that I (and the other 4 people that joined in on the order) got have been perfect.......what gives?

[BDawg364]

What did you get? I think I'm making a tfd order within the next few weeks....

[masteroffish]

I dropped $100 bucks on an African Tiger fish and the damned thing died eating too many rosy red minnows......:swear:

It was cool while I had it....

[BastardFish]

A 6'' ThinBar Dat! Most worthless non-active hidding little BIT*H OF A FISH i EVER OWNED:swear: I disliked the fish so much I ate the money I payed for him and gave it away for free.

[bmeasure]

The worst purchase I've made has been very recently while ordering live plants from Singapore. After a rude email from the salesperson, they shipped more than a week later than promised, and finally....THE END UP GETTING CONFISCATED BY CUSTOMS in the US! The moral of the story is to not order outside US or buy the proper permits (I don't know how you would get the other seller to add them to the packaging and be sure it's done). Basically, pay the extra buck and ensure your shipment from quality US vendors.

[BDawg364]

You are in GA and imported plants from Singapore? What kind of plants???

[bmeasure]

Aquatic plants. They were on Aquabid.com (like Ebay) and were really cheap and I ordered 92 plants from Singapore (Vals, chain-swords,Anubias, and Crypts).

[mr340]

i think my worst purchase was the several times i ended up getting uros sold as RTs, also learned a lesson when my RTC ate my TSN. also what is TFD, i see mentioned in a few previous posts?

[sje106]

my worst was a Albino Mystus (Hemibagrus) Nemurus (prob spelt wrong) and within 3 seconds it tryed eating my big Clown Loach (was half the clown loaches size) so i whipped him outand he was gone quicker than motherfu*ker!!!

[baracuda]

my worst purchase was a green spotted puffer. I had it in the aquarium for about a week and everything seemed fine. Then i started noticing that some of the fish were missing eyes so one day i was watching the fish for like an hour and i saw the damn puffer bite the eye off one of my plecos. soon all 10 of my fish were dead and i ended up with one fish. It killed everything including an australian arowana. I had a separate tank with a huge pacu and i fed the puffer to it and the pacu ate it and almost immediately flipped over and floated to the bottom and the puffer swam out of its mouth. This was stupid but at the time i didn't know the puffer could do that.

[justjonx2]

my worst purchase was a green spotted puffer. I had it in the aquarium for about a week and everything seemed fine. Then i started noticing that some of the fish were missing eyes so one day i was watching the fish for like an hour and i saw the damn puffer bite the eye off one of my plecos. soon all 10 of my fish were dead and i ended up with one fish. It killed everything including an australian arowana. I had a separate tank with a huge pacu and i fed the puffer to it and the pacu ate it and almost immediately flipped over and floated to the bottom and the puffer swam out of its mouth. This was stupid but at the time i didn't know the puffer could do that.


Holy Sh*t. That is one bad ass puffer....

[justjonx2]

Mine would probably be 3 black neons, 3 blue neons, 4 fancy guppies, 2 oranda goldfish, 2 angelfish, and 1 pleco............................................. .



All stuffed into a 10 gallon tank......................



The same day i filled up the tank w/ tap water...................



Without any kind of water conditioner............


Needless to say, this was my first go at fishkeeping. :confused:

[Mosdefenate]

damn bad ass puffer indeed

[EvilMonkey666]

My worst purchase was an african stonefish. When I first started out in africans I was ill advised by a petshop employee that a stonefish was a bottom feeder. I assumed it ate food that fell to the bottom. Unbeknownst to me at the time I happily brought it home and woke up the next morning to find half my africans missing. Thinking they got sucked up into the filter I solemly took it apart to find nothing. The stonefish had sucked up half of them during the night. :cry: Unbeknownst to him, he made a hasty retreat back to the lfs!!

[Mr.Geoff]

my worst was a tiger shovelnose i bought form a local guy. thought i had the room for him in my tank, get him home and wow...that guy was waaaaay to big for the tank he was going on. i had in there for a while then decided it just wasnt fair to him. so i traded him and got a silver aro, 3 green terrors and a pike cichlid for em. so it ended up working out ok. haha

[long2534]

scary ass puffer :eek: my worst would also be a uro as a festae

[Dominuslive]

Indecision, thats my worst . 35 neons 10 bleeding hearts, 25 glowlightsm 20 otocinclus. Was going to do discus. Found out about Pikes, bought a Johanna. $10 Pike got about $160 worth of tropical delight.....



On the bright side, didn't spend the 500 on discus.......



Got an Xbox 360 instead...

[Oscarboyz]

prob my RTc it got eaten by my oscar i think i was "lucky" i did no hw on them:confused:

[bethie_dawn]

I bought a chinchilla for my GF for valentines 2 yrs ago. I kicked her out 1 year ago and of course, I was forced to take "Fred" . The little bastard throws wood chips everywhere and my LMB won't eat him.


I wish I lived close by I would love to take it off your hands.

[rkc772]

worst purchase.... blue plecos... bought a second batch of 24 blue plecos... my tank was not ready for it. next thing i know i keep on changing the water and each day i have one dead pleco. after less than 2 weeks all are dead and money gone.:(

[wingbak48]

well i told my mom 2 pik up a royal pleco that i saw the day b4....she ended up buying a tiny common pleco thinkin it was a royal for cheap cuz it was soo small....well once i prepped it up 2 be put in the tank my new silver ate it for its first meal

[Bassman89]

my worst purchase???...prolly the damn feeders i bought from petco a couple of weeks back...they gave my damn sm bass parasites :( (never buy feeders from a lfs...unless its a great quality store)

[limz_777]

pacus pacus pacus.....

[FiremouthXSalvini]

It would be my O cause he is taking up to much space in my 75 gallon. I was wanting to put my fish in the 75 gallon, but I have a 10 gallon with german rams, angels, and a pleco. So I decided, I'd move them into the 75 gallon and put my festivums with them.

[benzjamin13]

I admit that I've made a lot of bad purchases, but the one that really sticks out of my mind is a Tiger Oscar I bought. It just laid on it's side in the back corner. I thought it was dying. I didn't want to kill it so I thought I'd let it live out whatever life it had left in it. 6 months later and 5" bigger this guy is still doing what it did the first time it hit the tank. It liked to play dead apparently. I kept hearing how Oscars are personable and all that and here was mine...only acting normal in the dark and apparently acting normal before I purchased him. Pissed me off!

[deckard_wa]

Mine was a school (4) of Silver Dollars that I was talked into getting by a friend. They were so nervous and flighty that they made my Oscars nervous wrecks!! And it took about 5 months for them to recover their confidence when I rehoused them in another tank. I've come to hate those fish, but my wife loves them............go figure :confused:

[Snapper]

Mine was a school (4) of Silver Dollars that I was talked into getting by a friend. They were so nervous and flighty that they made my Oscars nervous wrecks!! And it took about 5 months for them to recover their confidence when I rehoused them in another tank. I've come to hate those fish, but my wife loves them............go figure :confused:
I've got 3 silver dollars and 2 Oscars in my tank. All of them are bigger than an outstretched palm size. They live quite happily together. However the silver dollars tend to avoid the oscars most of the time though......

[fish23]

I'm getting back into fish keeping and was setting up a nice comunity tank with 3 angles 2 dwarf gourami 3 diamond tetra and 3 rainbows in my 55g when wife stopped a lfs and brought home 3 baby green severums which are fast outgrowing other fish in tank :screwy: , also doing 50% water changes weekly. Now I need another tank to house the smaller fish before they become food. Hoping to keep 2 sevs and 3 angles and syno cat in 55 keeping fingers crossed.

[altimaser]

It wasn't what I bought that was the mistake but rather where I bought. AquariumFish.net sold me 8 puffers and a pleco. All 8 puffers were dead within a week, my friend ordered fish from them to and had problems . I bought puffers from my local store and they are all fine, same tank, same water. The only answer I got was "Good Luck with another Vendor" from them. Had a good experience at RogersAquatics.com, also SharkAquarium.com the fish I received from them are all good.

[freeNINETY9]

I just bought a $3 baby green terror from either petco or petsmart, i forget which... and he'll probably be dead tomorrow because he was struggling today. I broke my own rule about not ever getting fish from either of those stores.


a lot of people on this site bash on chain petstores about having bad fish but everytime i read a story about it it begins with 'oh i saw this poor half dead fish so i decided to buy it...'


try buying the healthier fish guys and youll have better luck. even your lfs have die off so i dont get what the big deal is about buying from chain stores.

-shrug-

[freeNINETY9]

I did declorinate the water and when I add water when the level goes low I declorinate it before addition to the tank. The Ph lev is usually close to 6.5, Should it be closer to a balanced level of 7 or Is it better for my extreme mix of fish to have a higher accidity then 7? Honestly I'm a newbie at alot of this so I have no measurement tools for the first 3 of your level questions.


i know glass fish, violet gobies, and silver tip sharks (im guessing thats what you meant buy shark catfish) all like some salt in their tanks. even a more brackish tank than freshwater. even livebearers like it. try getting your salt levels higher. some petstores keep their salt levels between .20-.30 for their regular systems and even higher for tanks with these brackish fish. that might be the problem: dropping them into a tank with no salt...

[bigslolb]

my worst purchase was a large pleco. it was going good until i woke up the next morning and found that myh pacu had bitten its head off. the pleco was huge so that i thought my pacu wont mess with this. well i learned that if you have a monster in your tank no matter what u put in there, the monster will come out on top

[dmopar74]

my worst purchase was also the BEST! it was my first tank! now i got 2 tanks in the livin room and one in the kitchen. its one of the best hobbies out there but it costs more to maintain than my race car!

[IMFishHead]

Geeze I thought ohh cool, I never had one of those, Well put him in with a Arrowhead puffer / same size. Puffer takes big bite out of Chaca. I now decide I'll put him in my mixed tropical tank. Loaded with all nice fish 8 different rare plecos, 1 dat, jumbo glass cat, and many others. Well Chaca's give off a TOXIN when dying ( from bite ) All fish died over night in that tank!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Several hundred $$$ worth of fish! Here's pic of Chaca getting Aqclimated!

[robkob]

Paid $285 for a beautiful leopard shark that committed suicde the first night.

[filiportela]

deffenetly my spotted gar, i loved him, and fed him live fish every day, maitaining him costed a fortune, one day wen he was finally getting nice he jumped out of the aquarium.... i was devastated!:character0087: :character0087: :character0087:

[Redtail_Watcher]

:WTF: :ROFL: :ROFL:

You ever been shocked by a electric catfish almost a foot long??? i haved, i nevered put my hands or anything near her tank again!(accept food)

but, m worset of all is A common puffer fish the fish guy at the store said it is ok with my reef tank but, darn thing wound stopp eating!!!!:swear: it ate all coral/anomme it ate my snails and one of my damsels and my clown fish:swear: :swear: :swear: now i got one lonely clown fish i took it back two days later:swear: :wall: :angryfire (i had it only two month i got it for 40bucks, man i was will to give it away for free that i hated that thing so much!) my my second worst purchase was a electric blue crayfish about 5-6inches long it attacked attaked every fish even over a foot long -damn thing got a deaf wish or somthing going after my RTC that thing eats any thing. 3rd is a saleleant worm it can breath air. Picking it up off the ground every moring for 3 month was a pain in the butt.


that was dumb on your part :ROFL:

[Redtail_Watcher]

:WTF: :ROFL: :ROFL:

You ever been shocked by a electric catfish almost a foot long??? i haved, i nevered put my hands or anything near her tank again!(accept food)

but, m worset of all is A common saltwater puffer fish the fish guy at the store said it is ok with my reef tank but, darn thing wound stopp eating!!!!:swear: it ate all coral/anomme it ate my snails and one of my damsels and my clown fish:swear: :swear: :swear: now i got one lonely clown fish i took it back two days later:swear: :wall: :angryfire (i had it only two month i got it for 40bucks, man i was will to give it away for free that i hated that thing so much!)

my my second worst purchase was a electric blue crayfish about 5-6inches long it attacked attaked every fish even over a foot long -damn thing got a deaf wish or somthing going after my RTC that thing eats any thing. 3rd is a saleleant worm it can breath air. Picking it up off the ground every moring for 3 month was a pain in the butt.


that was dumb on your part :ROFL:

[PhillyIn06]

Goldfish.

[Diamondhitch]

My worst was a $65 Frontosa. Despite knowing that the Blue zebra would kill it, my girlfreind insisted that she had to have one so I bought the biggest one thay had thinking that maybe if it was big enough he might stand a chance but no luck despite being 5 times the size of the zebra he only lasted a week.

[Diamondhitch]

P.S. now she wants another one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :nilly:

[lascombes]

Buying my first oscar. I had already started a peaceful community tank with tiger barbs, pictus cats, cory's, all kinds of stuff and a buddy of mine says, hey why don't you get a oscar? They have great personality. I didn't know a thing about them at the time and didn't do my homework. I sure picked the right one alright, I bought a tiger oscar. The moment I put him in the tank, he swam right after the school of tiger barbs. In less than a week he slaughtered all of my fish. I don't know why but I kept him but he became my favorite fish. Now I don't even mess with peaceful fish anymore. Too skiddish and boring.

I named him Kurgan after the bad guy in the Highlander movie. When he was small he would only eat the heads off of the fish. He passed away a couple of days ago. I had him for 6 years. Don't ever keep a pair of convicts in the same tank with your prized fish. Mean little bastards. :swear:

[pheedbak]

I was like 12 or 13, and I bought some mail order Eduard Schmmidt-FockeDiscus from some dude in the back of Aquarium magazine (back when they used to have ads in the back).

The fish arrived in great condition and grew up to be healthy, vibrant, Green Severums!

[Havre]

One time i bought a Silver aro and put him in with my Jardini............:screwy:

[HiGhTiMeZ]

I was like 12 or 13, and I bought some mail order Eduard Schmmidt-FockeDiscus from some dude in the back of Aquarium magazine (back when they used to have ads in the back).

The fish arrived in great condition and grew up to be healthy, vibrant, Green Severums!

wheres the worst purchase in here? :screwy:
anyway as for me my worst purchase wud hav to be the striped castfish for 9$ for 2. it went on the 55gal and never did i see it.
decided to put in my planted tank and they always destroy my aquascaping... so i gave it back to the lfs in change for a fancy guppy.
needless to say the guppy was way better! :)

[Bsixxx]

worst purchase was when i was just starting out some guy talked me into getting a parrotfish. died cause he couldnt catch the feeder guppys. half breed freak!!

[Oscarboyz]

worst puchase had to be a red tail catfish that i put in a 37 gal. lol my full mgrown oscar ate him for dinner.

[Oscarboyz]

when i first started my worst purchase rtc in a 37 gal. my oscar ate him! waste of a beatiful 4 inch fish lol

[cougar579]

A large pacu!

[Somedude135]

2 beautifull angelfish... 75 bucks... gone :(

[Valyrian]

A 3" sturgeon for $22. Not only would I be unable to house him when it grew up, but it died within 2 hours of putting him in his new tank.

I knew nothing about the pH and salinity he needed :headshake

I was sorta relieved it died but sorta sad too :(

[mercury904]

hehehehe nice point of view

[GooDyboy420]

Well if this includes supplies the wrost thing I ever bought was a glass pets mart heater, didnt work I exchanged and that one didnt work so it happen 3 times then I got my money back and got a titanium hater or something works great. As far as fish go the worst fish I ever bought was an australian raimbow fish..... not only was it mean as nutz but it was infested with ick. Never buy fish from walmart...check them first =)

Why do people even waste time @ walmart, pet mart, animart, i mean seriusly if they dont specailize in fish in my thoughts, its wasting your money...they are disesed fish, i shop @ three of my own LFS do the same, walmart is death

but for me my worst story, i bagged up one of my yellow labs adn gave it to my friend, anyways we were high, went out had a ciggrette and i told him that fish is in the bag dont freget it, well of course yoda fregot it, woke up in the morning and went into the kitchen the next thing i knew water all over i was like WTF, the cat got to the fish, i wanted to kill y oda so bad for that...

[RadleyMiller]

Blue Crab, tried to eat everything in my tank!

[lovespunaround]

I've seen lots of people on this thread (and the board in general) s****ing on Petsmart. But I've bought a bunch of fish there and I never had any problems with sick fish; in fact most of the fish in the store look pretty healthy and the people who work their for the most part know really well what they're talking about. Even the cashiers know what they're talking about.
...maybe I've just got a really good Petsmart here.

But yeah never buy a fish from Walmart. I bought a firemouth there years ago and I had it until years ago minus a day. Walmart just makes me sad in every way.

[kiloindia]

What's your worst purchase???

A Wedding ring!!

[Newt]

What's your worst purchase???

A Wedding ring!!
:lol2:

I'm gonna say that my worst purchase was the giant freshwater flounder I bought from a seller on Aquabid couple months back. Lots of $$$ spent on a cool fish that was murdered by a terrible packing job! And...no money back guarantee on DOA fish:irked:

[Nate77]

What's your worst purchase???

A Wedding ring!!

:iagree:

[Taz2478]

2 snakeheads. nothing wrong with my water but they were dead the next morning. good thing I was cool with the lfs peeps.

[OH10fiero]

3 Spotted Gars, damn pigs cost me 400-500 fish a week. .................................................. ......never mind, I :hearts: those 3 little fish.

[AquataHolic420]

BGK, lasted roughly 2 days before it was a 15$ feeder for my Clown.. SHat happens

[abpositive]

Giant Danios to go in my Discus tank.
They made my Discus so nervous that they huddled into a little ball.

[milkman407]

My worst were, my big oscar R.I.P and my baby oscar Gona be r.i.p soone.
Also pirahnas had to kill them when i found out they werent alowed in fl.

[cyang]

Worst purchases were 5 ounces of cocaine and a brick of weed from an undercover cop.

[60mm]

thats to funny

[Princley]

i aint going to say any certin fish was a bad buy as i love all fish and inverts esp monsters...... but i have a habbit for sometimes buy fish i know r sick ..with the in tent of curing them many time i do ... but when i don't i would say that was a bad but

[me_wee_todded]

a dead koi that i put in my moms flower beds. the damn corpse ended up giving my moms flowers root-rot. but it really wasnt a bad buy when i think about it. 2 bucks for a 15 inch dead koi.

[Dovii dude]

Lets see i bought a Cowfish,Electric Catfish,Tire track eel all of wich hardly ever moved.I bought a foot long Buttakaforia for 5 bucks only to have it bite me TWICE!!Any Pacu i have ever bought,and the list goes on.The lesson learned never go fish shopping with your wife(especially if she wants to save every cute little fishy she see's)DAMN!!!:screwy:

[pumbus]

i bought 5 blue rams at a small size to get them to breed,they had not much colour so naturally i figured out of 5 i would of got at least one female,i ended up with 5 males at 14$ a pop

[freeskierrocket]

well I ended up putting my 5 '' electric cat in my 125 african tank................and it;s been 3 days ..................I have not seen the fish since...............flashlight and all.......he is either an excellent "ghost" or only out at night..............................and no he did not jump out............. ....that i know of................:nilly: :nilly: .................All fry are accounted for that i know of......................................

[cichlaguapote]

tanks: always end up buying things like 29g's for growouts, really should save money a buy a couple larger tanks rather than wasting money on smaller ones..

fish: worst purchase probably 10 wild rbps I bought, they started tearing each other up within days of having them(establishing order) and I couldn't take the cloudy eyes and torn lips so I gave them to the lfs..

[astronatus]

I've tried two clown knife's. One in my pond that disappeared without a trace (I assume it was eaten), and one in my 125 that was hounded to death in only about 12 hours by a puny little Jewel Cichlid. Pathetic. No wonder I never see any larger than 5 inches.

[large_cichlids]

my worst purpose was a red belly piranha around 6 inches.i would never buy another in my life:irked: they are wussies.they are afraid of their own shadow as they will flip out of the tank as u aproach them

[mike C]

My worst purchase was a Yellow Tang...believe it or not. It killed 350 wholesale dollars of marine fish which if I had bought at a petshop I whould have paid 700.00 for. I actually walked in on it doing its dastardly deed. The tang would swim up beside a fish and then erect its spines ( those little white lines at base of tail ) and slap them into the fishes body over and over again. He killed all the fish in the tank in 1 day while I was at work. Let me tell you...he went for a toilet ride.

[AquataHolic420]

haha

[missyme06]

it was probly walmart, i went in to the one near my house a month ago and all the fish had ick so i told a manager and segested some meds. went back resently to see if things had improved. different fish in the tanks mostly dead and the ones that are still alive all have ick.

[roybryan]

bought a silver dollar from wal mart took it home a day later developed ick, it spread to a couple other fish red tail cudda got ick put it in a hospital tank, wife called me at work said it died went home at lunch stuck my hand in the tank to retrieve the body shocked the piss out of me, heater broke fried my cudda

[inline4]

i didn't purchase them but i decided to go to the local pond and catch some weekly stocked rainbow trout.
i kept 3 small ones about 4 inches each. threw them into my established fish tank.
the trout survived, ate, and bullied the other fish for about 2 weeks then all the rainbow trout croaked at the same time. after that all my fish started croaking. i think out of 30 fish only 15 survived. must have introduced some kind of weird parasite or disease into my tank. makes me think twice about eating stocked rainbows.

it was fun having trout in the tank though, even though it was tropical, lol.

[Crustman]

About a month ago, I purchased 2 Tiger Shovelnose catfish at about 3-4 inches. I put them in the tank at around noon and later that night, I was looking with a flashlight and saw my Florida gar with a catfish in his mouth. I never saw him eat the other guy but they were both gone in the morning. I thought the catfish would hide and grow quickly so the gar couldn't eat them. He didn't eat a plecostomus that was just a little larger.

[toehead11183]

male M. auratus. mean little bastard. wipped out my whole cichlid tank

[Mudfrog]

Mine are eels.. Fire, Tiretrack or Peacock. they will not live.. They are typically dead within 48 hours. Makes no sense to me as I don't have trouble with any other fish but I've bought a total 5 different eels and they all die. They even eat the same day I put them in the tank but when I wake up the next morning they are on their backs.. still trying to figure it out.

I would love to have a nice fire eel but it doesn't look like it's going to happen.

[nishant_datta]

I'd have to say my worst buy was a Schomburgk's (hope I spelled it right) leaf fish. Sold to me as a new kinda south american cichlid, I kept it in my cichlid tank with Malawis half its size. The damn thing swallowed three african cichlids in one night !!!

[oddball_freak]

My worst purchase, or shall I say purchases have always been Oscars. I go to lfs and occasionally they will have a nice looking one so I'll buy it. Have had 4 gotten rid of ummm 4.

[blue_pill85]

man I have many many BAD buys, usually and by usually I mean every recallable time, its been something that is definitely not compatible with the things ive already got crammed into my tanks, but ya know sometimes you find that dream fish and HAVE to get it right then before anyone else has a choice, I think my favorite set up was my 75 gal. with 3 gold tinefoil barbs with the words (bite, me, nemo) tattooed on the in with my common snapper, rtc, tsn, planiceps cat, e-cat, parrot fish tattooed red lips and war paint stripes, 3 lmb 4"ish, 4 red-tail cudas, and the piece de resistance the american alligator. those are my worst purchases. please dont flame or send the dnr the fish are sold dead or moved and the gator is no longer in my possession.

[Joefish]

My wife's engagement ring :ROFL: :ROFL: :ROFL: :ROFL: :popcorn: :popcorn:

oh BS aside. hard to say but a goldfish? lol

[Shikartha]

Mine was a Knight Goby, trippled his size in 2 months and ate everything but my loaches.

[AquataHolic420]

Clown Knifefish... Cool spots, but jesus he grew to fast. never again!

[t Hizzle]

i have a 10" oscar and i got a 7" chocloate cichlid and my oscar kicked the sh1t out of him. the next day the chocloate killed my oscar:owned:

[robmcd]

No doubt a 5'' RTC that cost me 45$(I just had to have one) ended eating 4 tankmates(2 5''TSNs,1 4'' Royal plec, and 1 5'' Lima shvl nose) on its way to 11'' in 3 months. Just ate and slept. Like a big black and white slug that would leave s#!ts (turds) the size of a cat dropping. I had a 15'' common plec in the same tank that hated the RTC so luckily it was kept in check till I rid myself of that pestilence. I dont know why stores sell them and I know now why hobbyists should not seek them(unless you got a 400+ gal tank or a pond)

[glowbug0015]

he was tiny and a great deal, so i threw him into my community tank (29 gallon) with a small senegalus and my fav german blue rams, with the intention of moving him up when he got bigger. Found one of the rams with his head chopped off, figured out it was the albino, moved him into his own tank. I was planning on returning him to the store, only that I came home and found that he'd snuggled too close to the filter and gotten himself stuck and injured, and so he got a white eye and had a scar on one side. I was pissed, because now I couldn't return him. I fed him some feeder goldfishes, because at this point i didn't care, and then when I found him swimming around with a plant growing out of his top fin I was almost relieved that I had to kill him. Has anyone ever had a plant grow out of a fish that has eaten feeder goldfish? I at least learned the lesson from my worst purchase.

[sabrefish79]

I think all my first fish choices were wrong :) We didn't do any research and listened to the Petstore guy. Well I think we picked all the fish that will outgrown our tank - bala sharks, clown loaches, 2 cat fishes, and 2 tinfoil barbs :) We did pick a small algae eater and some small tetras but now I'm faced with finding homes for some of the bigger guys - I can't believe how much they have already grown :)

[Horiyoshi III]

My worst purchase was a Red Devil.......First because i knew alot about cichlids (or so i thought).This was when my 90 Gal had a bellycrawler pike,xingu 1 pike,and various severums and with this number of established fish i thought he wouldnt be dominant/predatory at all,as i have seen FULL GROWN RD's in Cichlid community tanks,so i gave that a shot.AS SOON AS I PUT HIM IN THE TANK he was punking all of the other fish off to the point that i had to return him.............i mean i gave it time to see if he would get passive and past dominence would re-establish,but nope................So the moral of this paragraph is,Do Not underestimate the tenacity or the ferociousness of the Red Devil,for these Parents of many a Hybrid will STAY king of the aquarium.

[---XR---]

mine would have to be, preety much anything from petsmart, talk about high prices, but that's my only lfs, so i order my stuff online.

[brakken]

worst buy would be any fish from pet and palm, no matter how good the fish looked in the tank. within 2 days they would be dead, garenteed.

brakken

[Kobura]

My worst purchase would have to be a Beta I got from Wal*Mart. I couldn't help myself, he was the only one there and he was in this little plastic cup and he didn't even have enough water to completely cover him, let alone move. I felt so bad for the poor guy that I had to buy him... even though he was really dull colored and his fins were ripped to shreds. I didn't even go to get fish, just look. Ended up leaving with something I thought would be dead in a few days.

On the plus side, he ended up lasting for 5 years and was the most beautiful shade of blue I'd ever seen.

[koff]

a 2" Auratus ....big bully beats up on a 3" pacu and a 5" oscar aaand a 5"green terror .......jerk!

[astronatus]

Ive noticed a lot of the worst buys on this thread were cats of one kind or another...

My worst "buy" was two channels and a bullhead I put in my indoor pond this summer. I planned to let them stay there until spring but they grew so darn fast and got so aggressive I had to remove them last week. Now they are hogging a 55-gal all to themselves. Nitrites are so high even with frequent water changes its like they are swimming in their own piss. What a pain.

[caboodle]

I once bought a bala shark for a 2.5g..

[Haag13]

When I first got into aquariums and knew nothing. I went to Walmart and bought an Oscar for my 29g. It looked unlike any I had seen in pictures online so I thought I'd have something unique. I didn't realize that juvenile oscars are a different color than adults. Now, 3 years later, I have a 11" oscar in a 46 gallon bowfront. He is as lame as can be. Sits in the back all day and gets scared whenever I approach the tank. He used to eat right out of my hand but when I went to Iraq for a year, my mother took care of him and she somehow scared the sh%tp%ss out of him because he has never been the same. He also kills absolutely anything I put in the tank with him during the night. I thought it was because the 46g was too small so I moved him into a 125g and he still killed anything I put in there with the exception of tiny endlers that he didn't bother with. He's now back in the 46g and as lame as ever. I just can't bring myself to get rid of him though.

[Bogwoodbruce]

Mine was 2 pacus that i bought, i was a novice then and didn't know how big they'd get they grew loads but i ended up swapping them for a Red hook metynnis.

[Miguel]

So many, in 33 years..A monstrous jaguar that didn't even reach the bottom of the tank because it was swallowed in one gulp by my RTC; a brackish moray that was in fw and stupidly I kept on delaying the conversion to brackish; some fish that jumped out ( wolf and several channas ), the list goes on...not the best equipment because of price and then .....

[bermuda]

reading these makes me feel better for all the identical, simple, stupid mistakes i've made. most can be avoided by just spending the time to do the research, or spending that little extra money on better equipment, etc. lol.

[wantingmore]

mine actually wasn't a purchase. unfortunaly i had to drop about two dozen feeders into my 78 degree tank from about 50 degree water and leave for a week. needless to say they died and took two warmouth and a catfish i had been raising for about six months with them.

[dragonfish]

Picking out a pair of convicts.

[aquanaut]

Bought 3 of what was advertised as Red Bellies to go in my slate bottom 55(long time ago:nilly: )... turned out to be Pacu.


Dumbest fish was a Stripped Rapheal... hid all the time inside a log and you couldn`t get him out. When I sold him he was short and wide and ugly as all hell.:WHOA:

[Nova 8]

My worst and best purchuse would be the 3 oscars I bought for my 30gal high tank, with in 2 months I had to buy a 55gal, the LFS told me they wouldn't out grow it. I should have check, how hard is it to type Oscar into google. Well I went back and gave him a piece of my mind:swear:. So I bought a 220gal off my fav. fish store and am very happy so far but still I need a larger tank for them, 450gal should be suffient:naughty: even though they will be staying in the 220gal anyway.

My older bro bought me a freshwater puffer for my b-day, had to put it in a tank with some cons over night and would buy a 30gal in the morning, well I didn't buy a 30gal:(.

[chanley2007]

:nilly: went to buy a 9inch clown but before he even boxed it up it was floating! scum bag tried to charge me for it though!

[Spencer]

I bought a Goliath Bird-eating tarantula and it died 2 mounths later.

[abpositive]

:nilly: went to buy a 9inch clown but before he even boxed it up it was floating! scum bag tried to charge me for it though!

Are you serious? How could he possibly justify that? What the hell did he say?

[straitjacketstar]

Discus.
I could poop in a tank and the turd would have more personality and be funner to watch.

[Sundew]

Worst Purchase: RED-TAILED CAT!!! Grew from cute little 4 inch fish to 18" monster by eating every other fish that would fit in its mouth. Finally found a fish store to take it, but they were not pleased.

Second worst: Pacus. Nice fish but you had better be prepared to have a huge tank. My outgrew a 135 (with ease) and ended up in an indoor pond at a business. They are now about 10 pounds each as far as I can tell.



:irked: Sundew

[rastasega]

arrowhead puffer.

he took a chunk out of every fish in the tank.

[davidefc]

iam new to fish keeping i bought 3 SAE the man said they would be alright with my cichlid(firemouths, blue acaras, sajicas) i watched them for about 10 mins went down stairs and came back up and it wasnt there i looked for it and i remembered that the hood wasnt closed compleatly, so i blamed it on that so me and my dad moved the tank it fukin heavy and looked behind and it wasnt there so prob my blue acara had a snack also the 1 which to eaten was the biggest of the 3. lol all that for nothing

[sawboy]

I can't believe there is only ONE mention of the Butterkoferi in these 19 pages!!!

I bought a 6 incher one and put him my 125 that had an RTC that was 18", a true gourami (big), 3 snakeheads, and my old (13 years) 12" Oscar. That little MF'er lasted ONE day before I took him back. Absolutely relentless, fearless and vicious. Went after every fish INCLUDING the RTC.

Never again. Now I know why I have seen "No Returns" signs by their tanks.


Oh yeah, the other worst purchase was every Red Devil I have ever purchased!

[Bsixxx]

jack dempsys

the highest over rated cichled out today

>:[

[portabuddy]

Umm. the worst thing i bought was 4 dobosies for my milawie tank i had two one male and a female the male would "hide the female away" so i got 4 of what i thought was females, and the only wayyou can tell is the stripe on the head, strong stripe...male. Weak stripe...female.

Weel the existing male Autopmaticly started rocking the one new one untill it was dead in 5 min...I never seen a fish ram another one that hard before, i pulled the others out and put them in a 20gallon, they all died but my original female and i gave my male back...

I lost big time on that deal... at $80 a pop. that sucked.


The next one was the ehime 2217, i could have bought a rena xp3 for the same price but nooooo. its a ***** to clean.

[cuda]

Mine was a Royal Clown knife. Not they are bad or anything I have had thoughts of getting another one. It was a bad purchase because about 5 or 6 years ago I had bought a SA RTC before I knew anything about fish.

Long story short my RTC looked like it had a tongue sticking out for a few days. I took a pictures of it and gave one of the picture to the LFS. That picture is still hanging on their bulletin board of customer fish tanks, today.

[Connor0729]

Mine was a Royal Clown knife. Not they are bad or anything I have had thoughts of getting another one. It was a bad purchase because about 5 or 6 years ago I had bought a SA RTC before I knew anything about fish.

Long story short my RTC looked like it had a tongue sticking out for a few days. I took a pictures of it and gave one of the picture to the LFS. That picture is still hanging on their bulletin board of customer fish tanks, today.
ouch. lol. that really sucks.

[jennypayne]

A few years ago I had a small aquarium set up for my kids (probably around 15 gallons). After Freddy the goldfish went to the big aquarium in the sky my son saw some crayfish at the lfs (although, he called them "little lobsters") and well, we came home with 3.

Wish I had known that they tend to eat each other, my son got a real quick lesson on cannibalism :WHOA: and I ended up with 1 very large crayfish.

[Steve737]

Long story short my RTC looked like it had a tongue sticking out for a few days. I took a pictures of it and gave one of the picture to the LFS. That picture is still hanging on their bulletin board of customer fish tanks, today.

Can you post the picture?

[cuda]

I'll see if I got some pics on digital camera. I think were from one of those cheap disposable cameras, but I'll look to make sure.

The Royal Clown Knife was probably the most expensive feeder for it that was not ment to be a feeder.

[JeffLeMay]

bought three yellow compressicepps from lfs at about 1/2 inch a piece. Within two weeks all of them had twisted mouths. Two couldn't eat properly and I had to euthanize as they got skinnier and weaker...the third's mouth eventually went back to a position in which it was able to eat, but it's still f'd up. i was pissed

[PinkPanther]

Dwarf Puffers

[WhiteLineRacer]

The worst thing I ever bought were two fluval 404's

[jmjohnson]

Silver Aro, jumped.

[Vicious_Fish]

2 Evil pacus, may they burn in hell.

[unbeatablec]

3" silver aro, caught the clown knife eating it!!!!!! 20 bucks down the drain. gave the clown and pbass to a friend who didnt take care of them, both died.

[KenyanSandBoa]

A 10" Red Devil.

I bought it when I was new to the hobby. I went to school and when I came home I saw it killed everything in my 90G. It spent the night in the bathroom sink and was traded in the next day.

I have hated Red Devils since that day.

[MicropterusSalmoides]

a vietnamise prostitute

[sma]

6" silver aro - jumped out
7" senegal - got stuck and died

[CichlidAddict]

I bought 8 cory cats and put them in a tank with river rock substrate. By the next day 6 of them had gotten themselves wedged in between rocks and died.
Now the tank's bare-bottom.

[xBandicootx]

3 pleco's that i later took for a walk...

[hexagon]

I didn't buy the fish. But I traded my neighbor a 6 pack for his 55gallon tank.. with the pacu included! Ugh. I hated that fish. He broke the filter and the heater in a matter of days. He was gone very quickly. Haha.

Also my fathers snapping turtles.. sure they look cool, but I swear they have not moved at all since we last dumped goldies in the tank. And I would sure love to have that big tank they are in now!

[dodgers86]

A 6" arapaima, my 12" paroon shark swallowed 70 dollars right out of my pocket damn bastard fish so now hes problably in someone elses tank swallowing all of their fish.

[Danyal]

a red bellied pacu that was smaller than a quarter, went into my 10g then into a 20g tall and then when it hit 8.5" back to the pet store.

[sabotage]

this bean-burrito rom 7-11, oh boy, made me SHI# for a week

[brakken]

this bean-burrito rom 7-11, oh boy, made me SHI# for a week

lol
thats some funny SHI#

brakken

[darthbravo]

About 5 years ago and fresh into the hobby, i had a nice 29gal community tank with a school of 6 Ghost Cats, some black tetras, a common pleco, and a small raphael cat. Well one day i saw a koo looking fish, a senegal bichir. I immediatly bought one without any warning from the fish store owners. Well i put the bichir in and everything was koo. The next day i noticed that some ghost cats were missing. "Innocently" the bichir drifted from behind the tank with one of the ghosts in his mouth. I feel in love with the sight of predation. I watched him slowly stalk all the ghosts and tetras. I still have that same bichir and he still loves to eat!
:headbang2

[mines-bigger]

mine would have to be a clown laoch from my LFS the fish didnd even make it into the house, my sister dropped it up the stairs and it died!!!!!!!

[t Hizzle]

i keep buying new fish and i run out of room or they beat the **** out eachother i cant help it though its sooooo tempting!!! I WANT ALL THE DAMN FISH IN THE WORLD!

[KenyanSandBoa]

a vietnamise prostitute
:ROFL: ...did you see a doctor? Does it hurt when you pee?:ROFL:

[Derpeder]

wasn't my purchase but when I was single and had a Malawi cichlid tank... my roomate thought he'd be nice and buy me some fish. 2 Bala Sharks about 1.5" each. One didn't make it an hour and the other floated for a while with absolutely NO fins or tail. We actually saved that bala shark. I have no Idea how he survive but we swapped tanks and he lived.

[aranos]

My worst buy was a 3-4" common pleco to help out with the algae in a tank with my 10" clown knife I'd had since he was a couple inches. The next morning I had a floating knife with the dead pleco caught in its throat.

[Joefish]

Mine would be that engagement ring i got for my ex 13 years ago. bwahahahaha :ROFL: :ROFL: :ROFL: :ROFL:

[slowlyburn]

My worst purchase was a Yellow Tang...believe it or not. It killed 350 wholesale dollars of marine fish which if I had bought at a petshop I whould have paid 700.00 for. I actually walked in on it doing its dastardly deed. The tang would swim up beside a fish and then erect its spines ( those little white lines at base of tail ) and slap them into the fishes body over and over again. He killed all the fish in the tank in 1 day while I was at work. Let me tell you...he went for a toilet ride.



This was the funniest thing I have ever read!

[slowlyburn]

I bought a Florida Gar at around 9 - 10 inches and had it in a 120g for about 1 month and it got to about 12 - 13 inches so he went back to the store.

[irwini]

my worst purchased was a african lungfish. e only time tat he'll moved, is to eat n breath. after keeping for few months i give away to a friend.

juz few months ago i bought the same fish :confused: dont know wat i was thinkin

[gar b3ar]

convicts! they poop too much. gave them to my neighbor, his oscar ate them

[jimjim911]

exodons, lima shovelnose they both suck n i hate them!

[smpage]

Definitely Red Bellied Piranhas. Wussiest fish I've ever seen in my entire life. Actually had one knock himself unconscious three times just because someone walked in the room... Had to poke him a couple times till he snapped out of it. RBPs with concussions are kind of a site to behold. Their only saving grace was that they actively tried to eat my girlfriend. as said before, anyone walks into the room they freak, she walks into the room and they're at the glass, teeth bared, trying to get out of the tank and KILL her. it was amazing.

[BichirAddict]

My tiger Oscar would have to be the worst and will only get worse as he outgrows my 55. Currently at 4" and has already taken a catfish.

[sprwoman1]

My worst fish purchase would have to be the powder blue dwarf gourami I got at petsmart. They developed strange buldges (internal parasites), white stringy feces, and while medicating I also found argulus or fish lice in my tank. Yes they all died. Now I had not gotten any fish from anywhere else in 1 & 1/2 years, so I seroiusly doubt it could have come from anywhere else. The employees only shruged their shoulders to this information and could not even consult me on medications.

[ck454]

Would have to agree with a TFD order. Spent almost 300 including shipping. Lost 2-temesis, 2-silvers, 1-royal pleco. All but 1-temesis was dead in a week and did not eat. The other temesis ate twice and died in 12 days. I checked water params. before putting them into tanks. Got them from the airport within an hour of being notified. Cleveland to Indy. Mixed my water with theres to get them acclimated. Made sure temp was correct and all tanks had been cycled. The biggest thing that pi**ed me off was the silvers. Got them on fri. and where dead sun. night. Talked with Joe and he said they had 150 5-6 inch silvers (that is what I ordered and they came in at 4inch.) and mine where the only ones that died. That is hard to believe with this size silver. Everything went down hill after giving good feedback. On the plus side is my 5inch clown. His bag leaked almost all the water out in shipping and was fouled by a big rosie he spit up. He looked terrible. Almost two months later he is about 9inch and eats like a horse.

[rb152]

I myself bought a beautiful frontosa from a local pet store and within a month it was dead i dont think it ever ate plus my jack d had somthing to do with it

[aoscar]

my first 29g tank and like 40-50 or so,assorted tetras, tiger barbs, asst neons, asst mollies, swordtails, cories, gouramis, balaswho knows what else(like 3 plecos) and a bubble eye goldfish, with mixed neon gravel, 1 ac filter.which I took home and set up w/all these fish immeadiatley
when most of those died, I thought those little pacus where kinda cool, got 2, then saw my wifes friends' full grown oscars and got 4 of those and a jd, I still like oscars
the first 2 I ever bought ended up a pair, after I had some bigger tanks (got rid of the pacu after like 6 weeks skittish fast growing ugly bastards) got some (4)albino channel cats @2" in 5 months where like 15" got rid of 2@ 8-9"
I managed to find a purple oscar and I one day I hear a big splash and turned to see that one of the cats had power-rammed my superrare 6" purple oscar into the side of my tank killing him instantley, they were traded the next day for a re devil. after he terrorized my oscars, is when I started doing real research.(I did however read every peice of oscar info I could find when I first got them)
sory for the long winded post

[halofishboy]

5" RTC croaked when it choked on a goldfish..... how random

[me_wee_todded]

5" RTC croaked when it choked on a goldfish..... how random

that rhymed

Tyre track eel.
I never see the thing

[halofishboy]

el o el


i didn't mean for it 2

those burrowing eels..... yeah you never see them but i think that coolies are the worst cause they're so small...

[danz]

fish.
dwarf puffer. got him cause he was "cute" and over night whacked all my plants I had spent months sprouting and growing as well everything in the tank.

silver aro. jumped within minutes of having him found him behind the tank not breathing or moving, got him back in the tank and revived him and killed 2 clown loachs that night as a thank you.

equipment.
elite heater. malfunctioned and cooked my pair of cons, not a big loss but was my first fish I got to breed but not that its a big accomplishment :)

[OB1daGoby]

5 iguanas on sale. any of 5 oscar,3 fire eels, one survivor so far, cheap ball pythons 2 outta 3 still allive, 5 baby beardies 4 out five alive, mata turtle so messy and filthy, gigantic tiger shovelnose, sturgeon, mudskipper, land crabs, mean ass cheap speckled geckos, tinfoil barbs that ate all the scales of my favorite koi, rtc, kribensis never again, any zebra african cichlid, 3 foot savanah monitor, leopard gecko from petland had a nerve condition and couldnt be touched, leather back turtle


my best buys... adult beardies, any bicher eel, the healthy ball python, any pleco, a free sharpei...best dog ever so far, any koi, mali euromastyx,
veiled chameleon, i want a female now , bearded dragons, hybrid niger/tsn cat by far the coolest ive had so far, just got a paroon tho hes cool too, golden geckos, rose haired tarantula, any loach especially big weather loaches and angelicus, musk turtle,

just a few im sure a i forgot a ton

[Tokis-Phoenix]

My worst purchase purchase was when i first started out with fishkeeping. I stupidly believed the petshop advice i was given back then, and when i got my first fish tank i got 3 chinese algae eaters and 3 mollys. Well the mollys were fine, but the Chinese algae eaters/CAE's fought like crazy (although back then, i didn't realise their territorial behavior was fighting), anyway, i ended up losing them when the tank broke and i put them in a big casserole dish with a filter which they jumped out of (didn't find the bodys into 6months later when i moved out of the place).

I repeated the same mistake though later on, as i still wasn't aware of how agressive these fish can become as they mature as my previous CAE's only lasted as juveniles (when they are not particularly agressive/territorial). When i moved placed and got a larger tank, i bought a golden CAE which i kept for much longer, however keeping it for longer meant that it grew and grew and become a lot more agressive than the 3 juvenile CAE's i had in the past.
This Golden CAE was a beautiful fish, but it became more and more territorial/agressive towards every fish in the tank until the point where i separated it and got it a tank of its own. Unfortunately though, the flat i was living in suffered a big powercut for long period of time and the CAE didn't make it.

I've learnt my lesson though, and i've never bought a CAE since. Also, i always do my own thorough research in fishkeeping now and have done for years now (particularly when it comes to buying fish) and do not rely on petshops for advice any longer.
I guess it was a classic newb mistake buying the CAE's all those years ago, however i did try to sort things out by providing the last CAE its own tank- its a shame it died in the end in the powercut as it was a beautiful fish, however i wouldn't buy one again in the forseeable future as i don't have the space anymore to dedicate a tank to a CAE again.

I would say that the CAE's were the only bad fish purchases i have ever made, i've made some fish purchases in the past with fish that grew too large for my tanks at the time, but i have always sorted the problem out myself by learning from my mistake and buying the fish the correct size tank and giving them the right habitat etc :) .

[SiApA2]

as a youngster didnt know alot about betta's. so i had bought a community of betta's lol :)... was very cool for show and tell

[FishRfine]

a pair of pacu. then again, its given me an excuse to bring my aro home (the tank is at my school, but the aro won't b for much longer)

[cichla1004]

My first saltwater tank. 500 dollars later and I had 5 dead fish and a brown rock that used to have frogspawn coral on it. Never dealt with marine animals again. Just not my bag I guess.

[black_monster]

peacock bass, i didn't even own it for one minute. once in the tank, a same size rtc swallowed it whole! i didn't even get to see it! also clown knifes, i had 3 1 jumped out somehow, the other two fought and were very picky about eating and then they ended up dead a couple months later. piranhas are worthless too, unless you go to the stores and their mean as hell there. spent so much money on them and they never eat in front of me or come out front, bunch of pussies.

[black_monster]

ohhh and as of herps; anoles, green iguana, kingcal, emperor scorpion, a couple of wayy too small bearded dragons that were most like runts from petco, although one of them bred for me and eggs were fertile!

[Fishes33]

kribensis - killed my first baby abino ID shark, put her in a bigger tank with my bigger IDs.. and and it nippled the fins of my shark that is 10 times the size of her :nilly:

I thought kribensis were as peaceful as ram, but it turns out not. Now shes in a detention container waiting for a new owner.

[ozz465]

Worst purchases were 5 ounces of cocaine and a brick of weed from an undercover cop.

Damm . ............

[gill]

worst was i came home from work and dad had bought 5 red eye tetras, Worst fish ever and took ages to get them out of the tank.

[daystar666]

no way, where did you get it from!

[freeskierrocket]

I will have too add clown loaches to worst purchase list...........they always die for me.........(well except for my old fatty.....which NIC now ownes) and i banned my self from buying anymore!!!!!!:D

[Mystix212]

Buying Black Ghost knifes (2).
Back in the early days on the tank, had no hiding spots, except for the heater and behind a 2000l/ph internal filter. Few days later, 1 behind to filter had it guts and crap all through the cartidges.

The one behind the heater got owned. Belly up within 12 hours. Cooked itself.

[Mystix212]

Also another thing is when I had my tank in pristine condition, fish were all going great etc. Then what? A bunch of 5 livebearers come home from a family member thinking it would bring colour. Ill tell you what it brang, made me angry, I then decidied to limit thier rations, try and 'shorten thier life' or something. Dont like livebearers.

[kgby13]

Why do people even waste time @ walmart, pet mart, animart, i mean seriusly if they dont specailize in fish in my thoughts, its wasting your money...they are disesed fish, i shop @ three of my own LFS do the same, walmart is death

but for me my worst story, i bagged up one of my yellow labs adn gave it to my friend, anyways we were high, went out had a ciggrette and i told him that fish is in the bag dont freget it, well of course yoda fregot it, woke up in the morning and went into the kitchen the next thing i knew water all over i was like WTF, the cat got to the fish, i wanted to kill y oda so bad for that...

Some of us only have a Walmart to go to. :(

[Mystix212]

Some of those people that go to walmart have the internet, which enables them to.... Shop online!

[fishlover88]

mine wasnt a purchase. My dad's coworker was tearing down their tank, and needed to find a home for their large pacu and oscar. I volunteered to take them, knowing the sizes. But after having them in my tank less than two weeks they caused the death of my absoluet favorite fish of all time, ralphie my blue channel cat. He was about 18 inches. i am still very upset about this. Never get a pacu ever again

[Zeppelin3k]

I will have too add clown loaches to worst purchase list...........they always die for me.........(well except for my old fatty.....which NIC now ownes) and i banned my self from buying anymore!!!!!!:D

I was going to say the same thing, i have bought over 20 CL's before, and right now i have 3, one of wich is covered in ick. i think they are prone to dying, i am thinking about giving up :(

[wahwai]

Mine was a jardini arowana destroyed 2 of my spotted gars i miss them:cry:
Still like jardinis though

[dindo]

Mine was a jardini arowana destroyed 2 of my spotted gars i miss them:cry:
Still like jardinis thoughYUP i had a jardini that ripped and ate part of my gar..i wasn't sad about that part a few days later the jardini died:cry: .