Things You Wish You Never Bought

[Chowder]

My first and second marine setup and probably gone to regret buying my third setup. I say that because when I buy my forth set up I definetly will be thinking I should have just gone this big the first time and not wasted so much money on the first three setups.

[BC564]

yeah....but I think its a natural progression to start small and make sure you like it.....

[Pier Pressure]

Yes that must be his brother in the picture. Mine looks exactly the same. However, mine is a lot friendlier - it has not eaten a fish or an invert as far as I am aware. Or maybe the fish are too smart as I have never seen one of them go near him.

I do not feed him anything special. He is in a spot where NLS pellets drop into him and he gobbles them right up. I am hoping they do not live too long. Thanks for the pcv idea - if he starts moving again I am going to anchor him down.

My worst buy tank-wise was my 150 gallon freshwater tank - that blew up on me twice in eleven months. That was the main tank and the replacement tank as well. Silicone let go on both - got rid of all my freshwater as a result.

Actually I was not too fond of the big tank thing. You miss a lot of what goes on and you can only buy livestock that gets along. If you have several small tanks you can get whatever catches your eye! Also, moving those big ones is a big pain you know where!

[BC564]

Death kept catching the fish at night.......Im sure they would swim and forget that death was in there ...just around the next rock.....

[mastergunsg]

I bought a purple tube anemone about 6 months ago. When i first got it I dug a depression in the sand and placed him into it and covered it over with sand I then placed a rock on either side of it to make a "cave" so he cannot move around the tank. When fully extended his tentacles can reach about a 6-7 inch radius. I did understand that it could sting and kill corals and possibly kill fish but so far I have lost nothing.. I turn off my water flow when feeding the fish and target the anemone with food, he readily takes flake food, arcti pods, brine shrimp etc and is amazing to watch when feeding. So far I am happy with my purchase because he is a beautiful addition to my tank.

[tang daddy]

For me it was a file fish not knowing they eat sps, before that it was a purple dotty before that a coral beauty after all those a striped rabbit fish that went apeshiets on my zoas and donuts sigh.

Live and learn..... If the whip of death reigned havoc on your reef why not get rid of it sometimes it's better to remove 1 thing than letting it stay to kill off many things IMO.

[Whatigot]

sometimes i think I do too much research before I buy anything...

I would say though that I'd never by compact fluorescents again and wish I'd just gone with MH from the word go.

[BC564]

I do alot of research before I buy things too...except this one time...I took the LFS opinion and well....wish I hadnt. Now I research the living things too....as well as equipment, supplements, food etc..

[Whatigot]

haha...
I'm sure that like me, a lot of the members here enjoy the research as much as the application.

[Pier Pressure]

It took me a while to catch on that it was the tube anemone killing the corals. By the time I did and moved him away from the corals - the damage had already been done. As stated now he is in his happy spot and leaving everything alone.

Lets just say he is on his last chance. He is so very pretty and I have become attached to him. After all he is only doing what nature intended. My stupid - not his.