Most disappointing Livestock Purchase?

[jostafew]

For me was a recent attempt at a Sharknose Goby; waited for 2-3 months to be in stock, and when they arrived I picked one up as soon as I could. Got it home and into QT and after a few days I noticed it had some weird problem with its jaw and gills. No problem, I took it back for an exchange. Happy to have a GOOD specimen now I carefully acclimated it just like the last one and very carefully netted the fish from the bucket to be moved to the QT tank.... dam thing flipped out of the net and onto the floor! Carefully picked up and dropped into QT. Watched it for about 15 min and everything looking OK I left for the night.

Well the next morning I get up to check on the new fish and it's dead....... That sucked...

[daniella3d]

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.

Originally Posted by Eb0la11

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

[Ryan]

Originally Posted by jostafew

For me was a recent attempt at a Sharknose Goby; waited for 2-3 months to be in stock, and when they arrived I picked one up as soon as I could. Got it home and into QT and after a few days I noticed it had some weird problem with its jaw and gills. No problem, I took it back for an exchange. Happy to have a GOOD specimen now I carefully acclimated it just like the last one and very carefully netted the fish from the bucket to be moved to the QT tank.... dam thing flipped out of the net and onto the floor! Carefully picked up and dropped into QT. Watched it for about 15 min and everything looking OK I left for the night.

Well the next morning I get up to check on the new fish and it's dead....... That sucked...

This is why you should wait a week or 2. Its better to put a deposit down on a fish. When fish get transhipped in they generally come in with a PH of 6.5-6.7, though sometimes higher if they come from the states or captive raised. Even then the stress from the shipping, being acclimated to the store, then being acclimated to your tank all within 3 days is too much.

[daniella3d]

Like what? how do you care for them?

Mine are doing ok but he got me worried so I would like to know what is the "care for them" instructions?

Originally Posted by Atomikk

You really have to know how to care for them.

[Marlin65]

Purple lobster thought they were so cool did not know they were nocturnal never saw the dam thing.

[daniella3d]

wow, interesting.

I have a purple tube anemone in my tank and it never eated any fish. I had 2 green mandarins as well and it does not toutch them. One of my mandarin was killed by a yellow tang (sold it after that) and my remaining mandarin female goes to eat beside the tube anemone and she's still there. It's pretty big as well, not sure what to do with it if it continue to grow like that. It's now the size of a soccer ballon.

Originally Posted by BC564

I would have to say a pink tube anemone....beautiful...but when I put it in the tank....It quickly cleaned up 3 fish in aobut 2 days....regal tang......4 line wrasse.......and a mandarin......I still have the tube anemone but it now lives in its own tank....the tank is called death tank.....he has 3 crabs in there with him.....

Oh...I have Kenya tree everywhere from one little frag I put in my tank....I clean it out and flush the stuff every year...its brutal....it takes over everything....but when you first start out...you want to grow anything you can get your hands on.....dumb!!

[2pts]

I bought 3 berghia nudibranches.

Didn't drip acclimate them, just floated the bags for 20 mins with the lights off. Didn't bother to turn the pumps off when I dropped them in.

Within 1 second of hitting the water, all 3 caught a current directly to my jawfish's hole. He gobbled 2 before I could get my hand in there to scare him. If I recall correctly, his snacks were $20 per.

The 3rd one clung to a rock for 2 hours, then I never saw it again.

Only one to blame was me.

[htfn]

my case is a powder blue tang. he had ich and I didnt notice when I got it. next day, I noticed white tiny spot and he died about 3 weeks later with his new friends. he took most of my fishes. however, my corals are doing better than before, so maybe I should thank to PB tang.

[dsaundry]

Copper Band Butterfly, after having one for years in a previous tank I have purchased 2 others only to sadly watch them starve. Never a store bought one again.

[globaldesigns]

Wow, I have many. Here they are:

1.) $40 for a purple clawed lobster - I have had it for over 2 years, never see it, but once in awhile I peer into the rocks and see it, so it is still alive. And sometimes I get a skeleton shed, proving it is still there. Waste of money, as I never see it.

2.) SPS corals that don't last the night - RTN

3.) Several small fish, that jumped within a day or two

4.) Maroon Clown Fish - Beautiful fish, but dumb as dirt, and wants to host to anything. It is kinda like a dog that will hump anyones leg. This thing sweeps anything and everything to clean around it, thus keeping my water hazy much of the time. I WANNA KILL THIS THING, but that is the only time he is smart, as he stays away from me.

5.) having a clam die in a day. LFS tore the foot off, I didn't know any better, and it didn't make it.

There is more, but just a taste of what I have.