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.
what's your worst purchase
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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
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)
(never buy feeders from a lfs...unless its a great quality store)
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.
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!
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 
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......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
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 
, 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.
, 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.It wasn't what I bought that was the mistake but rather where I bought. **************** 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.
