Most disappointing Livestock Purchase?

[RuGlu6]

Buying a live rock infested with eggs of these worms.
they eat everything and anything ! corals, fish, and polyps too.
Very nasty.
Lesson learned:
Live rock Never again!

Next tank will be started with DRY Eco rock only !
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[fishytime]

I have two....both powder blue tangs.....Ive tried twice and both times they only lasted a few weeks.....still dont know why, to this day...

[fishoholic]

Originally Posted by fishoholic

For me the most disappointing would be the new fish we bought (a few months ago) that died shortly after we bought it and to make matters worse that fish ended up killing 3/4 of the rest of my fish.

Originally Posted by Atomikk

Thats the velvet incident right?

Yep. But generally speaking it sucks whenever you buy something new (fish or coral) and it dies right away.

[belzebuth]

Powder blue tang....Died yesterday. Lasted about 2 months

[globaldesigns]

Hmmmm, let me see:

1.) Brought home a large clam from the LFS (I won't say the name, but I don't deal with them anymore), it lasted a few weeks... Problem was the LFS ripped off its foot (I didn't know better, and should of checked it before leaving the store), it just didn't do well after, $80 bucks gone

2.) Mystery Wrasse - bullied from the get go, didn't last the night, $125 down the drain

3.) Have had several coral RTN when brought home, some didn't last the night, some turned into frags. I can't even guess how much $$$$ waisted there

4.) Have had several fish die overnight or shortly after coming home with them from LFS... don't buy from that store anymore. Basically the store would sell them next day, didn't acclimate properly, didn't make sure they ate... This made me a better buyer... I now only from 3 places, and also make sure of health, that it eats and so on.

I think we all have alot of the same stories, hopefully we all get smarter as we move forward.

[Eyford01]

bengaii cardinal... lasted 3 days before it died and became hermit crab food and in that time didnt move more than 6 inches from the spot i let it out of the bag... ate well and everything just the most uninteresting thing i've ever put in there, my LR when it was cycling was more interesting...

[banditpowdercoat]

Pink Hawaiian Cucumber. And a Sea Hare. Both dead within the week. Altho, my Anenome ate the hare...

[TheMikey]

Two weeks ago I purchased a couple detritus eating slugs for $16 apiece. They were doing an awesome job. Acclimated them and dropped them in. Immediately the started cleaning my sand, like two little vaccuum cleaners. Left them be for about 10 minutes and came back so see one of them started cleaning right over to my superman acans... where it was half eaten.

About an hour later my open brain was devouring the second one... Most expensive snacks I've ever given my tank.

[StirCrazy]

hmm hard one, I have never had anything alive I have regretted purchasing, couple corals I was disapointed in, but I guess the only things I have realy regretted buying were 230Lbs of sand and an ebo heater..

sand cause nusence problems after 1 year so I had to put everything into a temp tank that I had a ebo heater in which stuck on over night and wipped out all my live stock corals and all. I ended up with 3 5 gal buckets of white hard corals.

Steve

[Eb0la11]

Originally Posted by StirCrazy

hmm hard one, I have never had anything alive I have regretted purchasing, couple corals I was disapointed in, but I guess the only things I have realy regretted buying were 230Lbs of sand and an ebo heater..

sand cause nusence problems after 1 year so I had to put everything into a temp tank that I had a ebo heater in which stuck on over night and wipped out all my live stock corals and all. I ended up with 3 5 gal buckets of white hard corals.

Steve

Which corals were you, and other posters here that are reading, most disappointed in?