what's your worst purchase

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My absolute worst was when I went to a fishstore and bought a peppermint shrimp only to get home and find it missing a chunk from its side. It dies shortly later (no guarantee on saltwater!). This is the mistake now, I went back and bought a discus and trusted the employee when he said that the 2 discus tanks were on seperate systems (they weren't), and I still bought the discus even though they didn't sell or carry the food they fed them. I went home and he had parasites and I also found out he charged me for the large discus instead of the smaller one (40$ instead of 30$ and i payed with a 50 and they put the change and receipt in the bag which I thought was weird).

Never again will I go to Nemo's in Granite City. A puppymill with fish on the side.
 
my worst purchase was a leichartdi arowana the first time i bought it, i was only 4 months into aquahobby. and it began to get sick, with pop eye syndrome, rotting tail, and gill disease. it died 3 months after i got it. =(
 
mine is a red devil that beat the s*** out of my green severum...but really it was my fault for being so stupid to put a red devil with a green severum.
 
i was about 14, and was looking to buy a pirahnainstead got a very very small pacu that was less than 2 inches and reached 12 inches in a year. and broke 5 tank heaters. ate plastic plants, and tried to break my tank. he jumped out and died while i was at school.
 
My worst purchase was a figure 8 puffer. i the fish was so funny to wach him wobble around the tank with his belly filled with shrimp. Somehow he died 1 month after i got him for no reason.
 
theheffners;1408355; said:
i was about 14, and was looking to buy a pirahnainstead got a very very small pacu that was less than 2 inches and reached 12 inches in a year. and broke 5 tank heaters. ate plastic plants, and tried to break my tank. he jumped out and died while i was at school.
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lol.. that was funny :popcorn:

all my amazon swords... they didnt make it and i ended up tossing all of them out :/
 
I think I can safely blame this story on my mother and father because I was underage at the time, I think I was 8 or 9.

The albino walking cat.:eek:
Family goes to fish store. We have a small tank, 20 gal., (old metal frame with the black sticky sealant), and mother sees this little white thing with whiskers. It’s so CUTE. Father looks, he likes it too and little girl (me) starts begging!!

Mother asks “How big to they get. Channels get pretty big, you know.” Mother grew up in the country. Fish store guy says maybe 2 to 3 inches. “No, it’s not like the wild ones.” Albino fish gets bagged up and taken home.

One by one, other fish in the tank start disappearing. And worse, seems no matter what we try to keep him in, he keeps getting out of the tank-AND GROWING. But, because he is a “walking” cat, when he gets out of the water, he doesn’t die, no matter how dusty he got. Once mother was walking by where the tank was and accidently kicked this guy across the room and under the sofa and he still wouldn’t die!

Father says, “Okay, That’s it. Back to the store with him!”

Fish store wouldn’t take him back. No other fish store would take him either. “BUT YOU SOLD HIM TO US!”

“No.”

What to do? No one in the family, even father (the old softy!) had the heart to kill him. A decision was made. I caught him up and hauled him to the local irrigation canal. Problem solved but not the end of the story.

3 years later a news article showed up in the local paper. Kids fishing in the canal (!) had caught an albino walking catfish. It was huge, they were ecstatic and I think they fried him up.
 
a nickel sized red belly pacu for my 10g, within a few months i upgraded him to my 20g and then traded him back in to the LFS at 8" long and 6mo old.
 
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.
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Dang you got yours expensive mine was 10 bucks.
 
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