what's your worst purchase

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So many, in 33 years..A monstrous jaguar that didn't even reach the bottom of the tank because it was swallowed in one gulp by my RTC; a brackish moray that was in fw and stupidly I kept on delaying the conversion to brackish; some fish that jumped out ( wolf and several channas ), the list goes on...not the best equipment because of price and then .....
 
reading these makes me feel better for all the identical, simple, stupid mistakes i've made. most can be avoided by just spending the time to do the research, or spending that little extra money on better equipment, etc. lol.
 
mine actually wasn't a purchase. unfortunaly i had to drop about two dozen feeders into my 78 degree tank from about 50 degree water and leave for a week. needless to say they died and took two warmouth and a catfish i had been raising for about six months with them.
 
Picking out a pair of convicts.
 
Bought 3 of what was advertised as Red Bellies to go in my slate bottom 55(long time ago:nilly: )... turned out to be Pacu.


Dumbest fish was a Stripped Rapheal... hid all the time inside a log and you couldn`t get him out. When I sold him he was short and wide and ugly as all hell.:WHOA:
 
My worst and best purchuse would be the 3 oscars I bought for my 30gal high tank, with in 2 months I had to buy a 55gal, the LFS told me they wouldn't out grow it. I should have check, how hard is it to type Oscar into google. Well I went back and gave him a piece of my mind:swear:. So I bought a 220gal off my fav. fish store and am very happy so far but still I need a larger tank for them, 450gal should be suffient:naughty: even though they will be staying in the 220gal anyway.

My older bro bought me a freshwater puffer for my b-day, had to put it in a tank with some cons over night and would buy a 30gal in the morning, well I didn't buy a 30gal:(.
 
chanley2007;718742; said:
:nilly: went to buy a 9inch clown but before he even boxed it up it was floating! scum bag tried to charge me for it though!

Are you serious? How could he possibly justify that? What the hell did he say?
 
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