what's your worst purchase

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5 iguanas on sale. any of 5 oscar,3 fire eels, one survivor so far, cheap ball pythons 2 outta 3 still allive, 5 baby beardies 4 out five alive, mata turtle so messy and filthy, gigantic tiger shovelnose, sturgeon, mudskipper, land crabs, mean ass cheap speckled geckos, tinfoil barbs that ate all the scales of my favorite koi, rtc, kribensis never again, any zebra african cichlid, 3 foot savanah monitor, leopard gecko from petland had a nerve condition and couldnt be touched, leather back turtle


my best buys... adult beardies, any bicher eel, the healthy ball python, any pleco, a free sharpei...best dog ever so far, any koi, mali euromastyx,
veiled chameleon, i want a female now , bearded dragons, hybrid niger/tsn cat by far the coolest ive had so far, just got a paroon tho hes cool too, golden geckos, rose haired tarantula, any loach especially big weather loaches and angelicus, musk turtle,

just a few im sure a i forgot a ton
 
My worst purchase purchase was when i first started out with fishkeeping. I stupidly believed the petshop advice i was given back then, and when i got my first fish tank i got 3 chinese algae eaters and 3 mollys. Well the mollys were fine, but the Chinese algae eaters/CAE's fought like crazy (although back then, i didn't realise their territorial behavior was fighting), anyway, i ended up losing them when the tank broke and i put them in a big casserole dish with a filter which they jumped out of (didn't find the bodys into 6months later when i moved out of the place).

I repeated the same mistake though later on, as i still wasn't aware of how agressive these fish can become as they mature as my previous CAE's only lasted as juveniles (when they are not particularly agressive/territorial). When i moved placed and got a larger tank, i bought a golden CAE which i kept for much longer, however keeping it for longer meant that it grew and grew and become a lot more agressive than the 3 juvenile CAE's i had in the past.
This Golden CAE was a beautiful fish, but it became more and more territorial/agressive towards every fish in the tank until the point where i separated it and got it a tank of its own. Unfortunately though, the flat i was living in suffered a big powercut for long period of time and the CAE didn't make it.

I've learnt my lesson though, and i've never bought a CAE since. Also, i always do my own thorough research in fishkeeping now and have done for years now (particularly when it comes to buying fish) and do not rely on petshops for advice any longer.
I guess it was a classic newb mistake buying the CAE's all those years ago, however i did try to sort things out by providing the last CAE its own tank- its a shame it died in the end in the powercut as it was a beautiful fish, however i wouldn't buy one again in the forseeable future as i don't have the space anymore to dedicate a tank to a CAE again.

I would say that the CAE's were the only bad fish purchases i have ever made, i've made some fish purchases in the past with fish that grew too large for my tanks at the time, but i have always sorted the problem out myself by learning from my mistake and buying the fish the correct size tank and giving them the right habitat etc :) .
 
as a youngster didnt know alot about betta's. so i had bought a community of betta's lol :)... was very cool for show and tell
 
a pair of pacu. then again, its given me an excuse to bring my aro home (the tank is at my school, but the aro won't b for much longer)
 
My first saltwater tank. 500 dollars later and I had 5 dead fish and a brown rock that used to have frogspawn coral on it. Never dealt with marine animals again. Just not my bag I guess.
 
peacock bass, i didn't even own it for one minute. once in the tank, a same size rtc swallowed it whole! i didn't even get to see it! also clown knifes, i had 3 1 jumped out somehow, the other two fought and were very picky about eating and then they ended up dead a couple months later. piranhas are worthless too, unless you go to the stores and their mean as hell there. spent so much money on them and they never eat in front of me or come out front, bunch of pussies.
 
ohhh and as of herps; anoles, green iguana, kingcal, emperor scorpion, a couple of wayy too small bearded dragons that were most like runts from petco, although one of them bred for me and eggs were fertile!
 
kribensis - killed my first baby abino ID shark, put her in a bigger tank with my bigger IDs.. and and it nippled the fins of my shark that is 10 times the size of her :nilly:

I thought kribensis were as peaceful as ram, but it turns out not. Now shes in a detention container waiting for a new owner.
 
cyang;573360; said:
Worst purchases were 5 ounces of cocaine and a brick of weed from an undercover cop.
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Damm . ............
 
worst was i came home from work and dad had bought 5 red eye tetras, Worst fish ever and took ages to get them out of the tank.
 
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