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08-13-2009, 11:12 PM
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Most disappointing Livestock Purchase?
Reefcentral has a cool thread going right now where people are discussing their worst live stock purchases in their reef keeping careers. A lot of cleaner shrimp and fancy shrimp purchases are being mentioned and also mushrooms for corals.
I wanted to hear some of your guys most disappointing live stock purchases? It could be because of the price, the interest level of the livestock you bought or whatever. I havent bought any yet so I cant comment haha 
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08-13-2009, 11:22 PM
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Mine was my most recent purchase from a local store. I bought some zoanthids that I thought were cool looking had some cream/light green center and cool markings. Got them home into my tank with good water, they colour up and turn out to be regular green button polyps.
Also the SPS "colony" he sold me that was the size of a large frag. The price was right so I bring it home where it bleaches out on me in 48 hours. The real disapointing thing is a frag from that exact colony is growing like a weed less than an inch away.
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08-13-2009, 11:26 PM
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When I first started out I bought a whole bunch of Damsels. They got really big and attacked most fish I put in. Had to remove all the rock to catch them all to give to the pet store. When I started up my new tank I stayed away from them. As for corals I would say Kenya Tree. That thing grew out of control. My tank was filled. I removed them all but they are starting to come back. Sold the first batch to LFS and got some good money
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08-13-2009, 11:49 PM
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Necrosis (Yay Google) "Rapid Tissue Necrosis (RTN) is a term used specifically for the occurrence of tissue sloughing in captive corals (i.e. laboratory and aquarium corals)."
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08-13-2009, 11:50 PM
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.....Rapid Tissue Necrosis
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Nothing! No Tank, No Skimmer, No Zeovit, No Sump! Just Nothing.......At the moment Simplycorals 165g Upgrade.
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08-13-2009, 11:55 PM
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Hi,
Mine was a cool looking algae that i was told would be beneficial to the tank! I couldn't understand why it would retract when i touched it? Turned out that it was a colony of the hydroid "Pom Pom"......  Needles to say i flushed it and then had a few stern words with the LFS..... Regards, Simon.
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Nothing! No Tank, No Skimmer, No Zeovit, No Sump! Just Nothing.......At the moment Simplycorals 165g Upgrade.
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11-27-2010, 05:23 AM
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The damn pet store in Boleil, Quebec (TD zoo) is selling things that are impossible to keep alive and they don't tell you that..so this is the worst store I know and the owner is supposed to be a biologist! go figure!
Worst buy ever were made at that store, one blueberry gorgonian and one orange sponge, both paid around 50$ and they died in a few weeks. I was told they just need some food in the water and they would do well...The blueberry gorgonian is impossible to keep alive for more than a few months and the orange sponge the same. I also bought a flame scallop at that store and that is still alive after 10 months, surprising. I was told they were easy to keep..yeah right. I need to feed it a lot to keep it alive for so long. So that was 100$ in the garbage, or how we would say in French, 100$ à l'eau. Quote:
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