Most disappointing Livestock Purchase?

[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?

[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!!

[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.

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by Eb0la11

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

tuff question, um for me is was a few SPS that looked promising but never colored up like I thought they would, so not a bad coral just not the results I was gambling on, a fox coral, never did well, oh and mushrooms, when you mix mushrooms and MH lighting they explode and try to take over the tank.

Steve

[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...

[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.

[Marlin65]

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