what's your worst purchase

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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
 
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 ***in 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
 
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!
 
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.
 
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.
 
cuda;831554; said:
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.
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ouch. lol. that really sucks.
 
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.
 
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