what's your worst purchase

[freeNINETY9]

I just bought a $3 baby green terror from either petco or petsmart, i forget which... and he'll probably be dead tomorrow because he was struggling today. I broke my own rule about not ever getting fish from either of those stores.

a lot of people on this site bash on chain petstores about having bad fish but everytime i read a story about it it begins with 'oh i saw this poor half dead fish so i decided to buy it...'


try buying the healthier fish guys and youll have better luck. even your lfs have die off so i dont get what the big deal is about buying from chain stores.

-shrug-

 

[freeNINETY9]

I did declorinate the water and when I add water when the level goes low I declorinate it before addition to the tank. The Ph lev is usually close to 6.5, Should it be closer to a balanced level of 7 or Is it better for my extreme mix of fish to have a higher accidity then 7? Honestly I'm a newbie at alot of this so I have no measurement tools for the first 3 of your level questions.

i know glass fish, violet gobies, and silver tip sharks (im guessing thats what you meant buy shark catfish) all like some salt in their tanks. even a more brackish tank than freshwater. even livebearers like it. try getting your salt levels higher. some petstores keep their salt levels between .20-.30 for their regular systems and even higher for tanks with these brackish fish. that might be the problem: dropping them into a tank with no salt...

 

[bigslolb]

my worst purchase was a large pleco. it was going good until i woke up the next morning and found that myh pacu had bitten its head off. the pleco was huge so that i thought my pacu wont mess with this. well i learned that if you have a monster in your tank no matter what u put in there, the monster will come out on top

 

[dmopar74]

my worst purchase was also the BEST! it was my first tank! now i got 2 tanks in the livin room and one in the kitchen. its one of the best hobbies out there but it costs more to maintain than my race car!

 

[IMFishHead]

Geeze I thought ohh cool, I never had one of those, Well put him in with a Arrowhead puffer / same size. Puffer takes big bite out of Chaca. I now decide I'll put him in my mixed tropical tank. Loaded with all nice fish 8 different rare plecos, 1 dat, jumbo glass cat, and many others. Well Chaca's give off a TOXIN when dying ( from bite ) All fish died over night in that tank!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Several hundred $$$ worth of fish! Here's pic of Chaca getting Aqclimated!

 

[robkob]

Paid $285 for a beautiful leopard shark that committed suicde the first night.

 

[filiportela]

deffenetly my spotted gar, i loved him, and fed him live fish every day, maitaining him costed a fortune, one day wen he was finally getting nice he jumped out of the aquarium.... i was devastated!

 

[Redtail_Watcher]

:WTF:

You ever been shocked by a electric catfish almost a foot long??? i haved, i nevered put my hands or anything near her tank again!(accept food)

but, m worset of all is A common puffer fish the fish guy at the store said it is ok with my reef tank but, darn thing wound stopp eating!!!! it ate all coral/anomme it ate my snails and one of my damsels and my clown fish now i got one lonely clown fish i took it back two days later (i had it only two month i got it for 40bucks, man i was will to give it away for free that i hated that thing so much!) my my second worst purchase was a electric blue crayfish about 5-6inches long it attacked attaked every fish even over a foot long -damn thing got a deaf wish or somthing going after my RTC that thing eats any thing. 3rd is a saleleant worm it can breath air. Picking it up off the ground every moring for 3 month was a pain in the butt.

that was dumb on your part

 

[Redtail_Watcher]

:WTF:

You ever been shocked by a electric catfish almost a foot long??? i haved, i nevered put my hands or anything near her tank again!(accept food)

but, m worset of all is A common saltwater puffer fish the fish guy at the store said it is ok with my reef tank but, darn thing wound stopp eating!!!! it ate all coral/anomme it ate my snails and one of my damsels and my clown fish now i got one lonely clown fish i took it back two days later (i had it only two month i got it for 40bucks, man i was will to give it away for free that i hated that thing so much!)

my my second worst purchase was a electric blue crayfish about 5-6inches long it attacked attaked every fish even over a foot long -damn thing got a deaf wish or somthing going after my RTC that thing eats any thing. 3rd is a saleleant worm it can breath air. Picking it up off the ground every moring for 3 month was a pain in the butt.

that was dumb on your part

 

[PhillyIn06]

Goldfish.