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