what's your worst purchase

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zebra albino cichlid he is an *** hole to all my other fish attacks them every second once my arowana gets big enough he will get a taste of his own medicine and also i didnt buy this one but a bluegill caught from local lake he is so boring i rarely ever see him just hides all the time and i never see him eat either oh well at least he was free haha
 
clarius. that jerk would climb out at night. I would hear him, wake up and start hunting for him. by the time I found him, he was covered in dog hair and looked like a stuffed animal..
 
Snails.... seemed cool to add to my tank but the resilient buggers never die and 2 snails became an unreasonable number over night. Also my sister bought me an oranda when I kept gold fish a few years back. It ended up getting sick every two weeks. I rescued it multiple times in 5 months only to have it take the whole tank down, well ok it and 3 other goldfish. I didn't replace the fish and tore it down for storage. Met my wife at that time and was coaching elite level hockey, so I didn't have time to dedicate to new fish. Truth was I was ready to be out of goldfish and was considering giving them to a relative at the time. Wanted something else. Now a few years later here I am with a wonderful african setup with a wife who is really getting into the hobby.

Biggest rookie mistake (lots of those here). When I first got the goldfish. I got talked into it by an old girlfriend who had fish. She told me a 2.5G would house the little fancy we were looking at. So I asked the people at the store who had no problems with me carrying out a 2.5g tank, and a bag with a fish in it at the same time. Went home and started researching what I could do to help the little guy live a happy life and was out shopping for a more reasonable sized tank a couple of days later. Did a live cycle with the poor gold fish because I didn't even know that I needed the cycle. Somehow the little guy made it and he got a couple of tankmates who all grew fast in their new 40g. This is when I discovered MFK, an amazing site that has helped me explore this hobby. Wouldn't be the diligent fish keeper I am today without the people from this site and their expertise.
 
Pea puffers. I bought them for my desk top tank at work. They just didnt look happy sitting there doing nothing. My fish at home were too big so i gave them to a friend with a beautiful planted tank. They went in and were never seen again :(
 
onetouch2many said:
clarius. that jerk would climb out at night. I would hear him, wake up and start hunting for him. by the time I found him, he was covered in dog hair and looked like a stuffed animal..
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Ha ha ha......."Post of the day" material right here.
 
probably kuhli loaches like everybody else but also when i was 5 i got a 2 gallon hexagon tank and put an angelfish and a guppy in it result: guppy tore to shreds and eaten and cramped little angelfish getting returned to the store :D
 
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