What's The Worst Thing You Regret Putting Into Your Tank?

[Lpabsolute]

What's The Worst Thing You Regret Putting Into Your Tank ? ? ? ? ?

Fish? Coral? Other?

[Lpabsolute]

I'll Start.....................

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Enough Said :thumbdown

[barbra]

Purple Up.

What a useless mess that stuff is.

[Blazer88]

A dwarf angelfish (Coral Beauty). She terrorized all of my fish and took out half of my SPS and LPS. I was happy to see her go.

[corals b 4 bills]

Hindge back camel shrimp

[weaver5]

Yellow Wrasse. It killed all my shrimp and even killed a fox face.Scott

[MIREEFER]

im with ya on that one ^^^^^^^^^Lpabsolute


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[corbett_n]

orange filefish, could bite the head off of a nail

[scuba4ever]

Glove polyps....almost crashed the tank

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[DamnPepShrimp]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9738348#post9738348 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by barbra
Purple Up.

What a useless mess that stuff is.

Why is purple up so bad? It doesn't promote coralline growth? What does then?

[Frick-n-Frags]

boy that's a long list of contenders covering a long span of time.

mantis shrimp was a bad one
condylactis anemone
green terror brittle star
heh yeah a domino damsel

I didn't have to put the aiptasia or the algae in deliberately, so that doesn't count....

the wrong amount of chemicals a couple of times
longpine sea urchin
a littlegiant submersible pump filled with mineral oil that leaked
an entire shattered MH bulb outer jacket
a ritteri anemone and an "un-sponged" powerhead

3pc VHO endcaps :D (technically "on" the tank)

I'm sure there's more really bad moves on my part that I can't recall right now.

[StefanHayek]

Xenia... Without a doubt.

[Lpabsolute]

WoW "Frick-n-Frags" That's some list you've got going there....

[Runner]

Live rock....













...with cute little "brown tubeworms" on it. Later ID'd as hydroids...

[Froggy]

I'll also have to say a green brittle star. It was a pretty large one and ate the female half of my bonded pair of maroon clownfish.

I was unfortunate enough to see it right after it occurred.

[brianbigoats]

Green star poylp's
after smashing the rock i think i just might have got most of them

[DSMpunk]

Kenya tree...ugh.

[thecichlidpleco]

Pin cushin Urchin
Always rearranging my frags and rubble

[seagirl]

i'm bummed after reading this thread. i had plans to purchase a tuxedo urchin and green star polyps soon, and i already have xenia.

[Lpabsolute]

Keep Them Coming Guys....

[Lpabsolute]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9739170#post9739170 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by seagirl
i'm bummed after reading this thread. i had plans to purchase a tuxedo urchin and green star polyps soon, and i already have xenia.


Don't be bummed. Many people have different luck/success with different corals/fish. Never had a prob. with GSP in my tanks

[tkeracer619]

:lol: ones trash is another mans gold.

Xenia is not bad if you put it somewere it can be contained, and if you have an urchin you better glue your frags......... having an urchin and frags getting knocked over is the users fault.... you know the urchin is going to knock it over, glue it down....

BTW: I like how my royal urchin wears designer zoas, he is worth like atleast $5-10 per polyp. Easily a $100-$150 urchin =]

GSP is also easy kept if you dont give it the chance to spread.

That said. 3 stripe damsel, kenya trees and galaxia...... 3 stripe is no longer.

[kfowler]

Hermit Crabs. They kill my snails to take their shells and like to turn over a frogspawn and sun coral frag. I'm sticking with snails only from now on.

[fraggin]

money :D

[gig]

tkeracer, what went wrong with the Galaxea? did it take up too much space with it's "feelers"?

So far, I have yet to eff up, but I will :D

[funkyman]

Glove polyps....almost crashed the tank

Do you mean "clove" polyps? How were they going to cause you're tank to crash? I have these, which is why I'm asking.

[mwwhite]

The Urchins are okay -- we have a pincushion and a tuxedo. We call them little bulldozers though! They WILL rearrange everything though so if it's not glued down - it will get moved.

We are waiting for the new tank to arrive and then we'll glue everything down... I like them too much to get rid of them.

[tibbs2]

Some liverock I bought from another person. My tank has become infested with mushrooms and I have been fighting aptasia ever since.

[tkeracer619]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9739372#post9739372 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by gig
tkeracer, what went wrong with the Galaxea? did it take up too much space with it's "feelers"?

So far, I have yet to eff up, but I will :D

Well I still have it and really like it.... its just its sweepers can be rediculously long and stingy. Also when it frags itself it spawns little galaxia randomly around on the rockwork. My colonies I could once move have created babies on the main rockwork that I wont be able to get rid of unless I tear it down. Luckly I am breaking down soon to go to a 500g.

Not sure if the galaxia is going to make it into the new tank. I doubt it will.

[LOTUS50GOD]

xenia
mushrooms
calurpia
GSP

[tibbs2]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9739170#post9739170 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by seagirl
i'm bummed after reading this thread. i had plans to purchase a tuxedo urchin and green star polyps soon, and i already have xenia.

You shouldn't have too much trouble with the urchin as long as you glue your frags down. I use a two part underwater epoxy. It works great.!

Chris

[corals b 4 bills]

I forgot KENYA TREES! Totaly the worst, my friend gave me a frag that turned into a FOREST, one peice breaks off (by itself) and attatches to everything! clams, corals, powerheads, glass you name it, Be afraaaaaaaaaaid.

[fishyvet]

leopard blenny in my reef tank... gone now though :D

[DarthBaiter]

bury the GSP and they will die off, or put em on a rock that is an island in the sandbed and it won't grow all over the tank,


RBTA for me. It ate hundreds of dollars in live stock and killed hundreds of dollars worth of coral.

[scuba4ever]

Funkyman...I kept saying what beautiful glove polyps I had until they over took my ricordias, my torch coral, my brain coral, and they had gotten so bad at one point they had formed a carpet on top of the sand...be careful with them

[Taavi Päll]

First of all -- "thing" is it "living thing". One of my friends once accidentally put coctail glass into my fresh water tank. Nothing happend.
However, any "nice" species in a "wrong" place (frm particular species point of view it might be too f good; a la Malthus) can take over the system.

[saltpeter]

Elephant Ear Anemone. Grew to 15 inches across and ate all small fish.

[warriorss08]

i bought some live rock that was uncured and they told me that when i picked it up to just put it in my tank. I wasn't prepared for the ammonia spike and neither were my fish. The rock also came with a nice group of gorilla crabs that ate some of my fish that survived the ammonia spike.

[okdave]

Tibbs2 did you buy that bargain rock from the same guy I did? "It's great rock, it has a little aptasia on it, but not bad, a little Joe's Juice will take care of it". Yeah right! those freakin buggers are everywhere!

[Michelle L]

I regret adding that one tiny, small, itty bitty, miniscule piece of live rock with a little, tiny, miniscule, almost non-existant bit of macroalgae that the guy at the LFS told me would look "pretty" and "natural" in my tank...and now it has taken over my entire system, choking corals and smothering clams....

[gig]

my LFS is pretty good, I am pretty much a n00b to reef tanks, but have kept marine fish for over 10 years.

I go to pick out some LR and I say to the guy who works there. That piece is cool, it's got those cool looking corals or anenomes already attached!

He says, that's aptasia, you don't want that....

ok! no thanks! :D

same thing with a piece of LR that was covered with bubble algae, I thought it looked cool, but he said the same thing, you don't want it.

[wicked_NaCl_h2o]

Hey what is wrong with a xenia? I've wanted a waving hand xenia ever since the first time I saw one when I was a kid. This is the second forum I've found that has someone complain about the xenia.

[wicked_NaCl_h2o]

OH yeah I wish I never bought my ocellaris clown. I talked to one of the employees that use to work at the LFS. She told me that my fish was returned to that store a few times. I understand why now, he is a little ****. Just last friday he bit the hell out of my husband. He took a chunk of flesh off my husbands hand. All my husband was trying to do is position a powerhead just right and wham the clown fish bit hard. He was the first fish we added to our tank. I think the LFS was hoping that this fish wouldn't do so good in our tank. Our tank was only a month old at the time we bought him. He survived and now he thinks he owns all of our 120gallon tank. We are not giving up on our clown. Maybe some day I'll buy a 24 gallon just for him and it will be small enough so we won't worry about putting our hands in the tank to clean or adjust things.

[daveonbass]

Water....

My bills never shot up like that before or since I got into the hobby.

[atzak]

The worst thing in my reef, and I keep making the same mistake, is by far:





























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[Matt Rise]

Right now I regret putting an Aqua C EV120 on my tank.... I've just about had it with this thing, but that's another thread altogether.

[Waxxiemann]

Sand.

[Jah2707]

Wow everything I put in my tank at first:

Arrow crab? - killed anything it could get its claws on.

purple lobster - very pretty but knocked over rocks and killed itself
then I had all different kinds of algae

[CaptRon]

Xenia. Started with a single 3" stalk and it ended up taking over 1/2 of my tank in the 6 months it was in there. I removed it last week and put in a tank by itself. I'm hoping it's all gone from the original tank.

[diddye]

all you gotta do w/ xenia is put it near the top of a rock. It'll have no place to grow and is easy to control.

[reefinmike]

anthellia and a pinchushion urchin... im still fighting to get the anthellia out...

[CaptRon]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9741440#post9741440 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by diddye
all you gotta do w/ xenia is put it near the top of a rock. It'll have no place to grow and is easy to control.
I used to think that too. However, stalks can come loose and float around the tank. That's what must have happened when I found another forest behind my rockwork creeping up on my SPS. I took it out the next day and sent it off to exile.

[dperrucc]

Live rock,120pounds of nice rock,two tiny bubble algae,now two million..might be breaking-down third reef tank.

[davocean]

All my money!
My tank is officially more valuable than my truck!

[oldschool reef]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9741471#post9741471 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by reefinmike
anthellia and a pinchushion urchin... im still fighting to get the anthellia out... good luck, anthillia is a very fast grower and tough to remove all traces from the rock, just ask me!:rolleyes:

[A sea K]

The Kole tang I added about 2 weeks ago, He is trying to kill my little Lawnmower blenny

[HolyScoly]

a maroone clown

[tapm]

A sea K - I have a Kole tang who also relentlessly chases my lawnmower blenny. Anytime he sees it he chases it into a hole. I think he knows its his competition for algae.
Mine would have to be my BTA without screening my overflow

[atzak]

red bugs and monti eating nudi's

[AZDesertRat]

Thats a no brainer! A Sand Sifting Star was my biggest mistake by far. It completely wiped out a well established and thriving 5" Southdown DSB in just a few months. It took 6 months of donated live sand from friends and bottles of Ocean Pods to get it back and to this day almost 2 years later its still not what it once was. I am still trying to get the mini brittle stars and red worms I used to have.

[jfish298]

yellow tail damsels. had to take down the entire tank to catch them

[dendro982]

Cleaner wrasse - because of aggressiveness and unwillingness to clean fish, also had to disassemble all LR and lower water to catch it.

Mandarin and scooter - because of feeding by frozen food, affects the water quality. While scooters have interesting behavior, in a long run it not worth it.

[cloob]

Fission Nano skimmer, Damsel, Coral Beauty, Reef Bugs(gave my tank flatworms), cleaner shrimp which never cleaned fish, Pom Pom Crab which I hardly ever saw.

[Rovert]

I'm in.

Purple Lobster.

Spent $20 on the bastage two years ago, he hit the bottom of the tank, and kept on goin'. I've only seen him two or three times since then. I know he's there, because I see his shell remains when he molts, and because a couple of fish have gone MIA.

[George Grogan]

school of 7 blue chromis ....

and, just as I was warned... only 1 left

[RobNJ]

WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR CHROMIS?

[fishysteve]

Tobacco bass-- ate $120 worth of cleaner shrimp.

[Sheol]

Hmm, didn't I start this thread last year?

Xenia has become less of a problem because the Hairy Green rhodactis mushrooms are choking it off. They are pretty but they are potent. In fact, looking back, the reason part of my Pagoda cup (Turbinaria) has tissue reccesion(sic) is it was burned by the Rhodactis.
Secondly, hermit crabs. Everynight last year, small frags not glued down ended up at the bottom of the tank. caught the little *Beep#s in the act.

Sincerely,
Matthew

[MIKEMARTIN]

I am embaressed to say........TAP WATER!!!!!!

[unclereefer]

GRAPE CAULERPA!

[Sk8r]

Nobody's mentioned a sponge protector on a mag 9.5. Nitrates. Can you say nitrates. That was a very bad decision. But so was it a bad decision that loaded my sump into my stand backwards, and being a wedge-stand, it couldn't be removed, cleaned, or otherwise fixed. THAT led to the protector, which led really bad places.

If a big ACCESSIBLE sump won't fit your stand, put it in a second stand nearby and set a doily and flowers atop and call it a table.

[TRH]

Banded sleeper goby, rearranges all the sand everywhere. He gets it on the rock all over the coral and the little bast.... even looks at me when he is doing it!

[kimboslice]

gold headed goby covers ALL corals with sand, will even pick it up move up and let it spray everywhere, i am constantly spraying the sand off my corals, he is good at eating scraps though and eats everything i put in the tank

u guys say ur kole tang chases ur lawnmower? my tomini also hates mine so i guess its a bristletooth thing?

[kingnai]

zebra eel.... looks great but killed all my inverts

[Vanquishxxxx]

i dont understnad how everyone hate xenia so much , i love it, it grows like mad and everymonth i get like 150 bucks at the lfs for brigin in all the frags, jsut cut them off with a razor , they live through anything, and throw them out, Pruing in a sense

[drummereef]

Back in the day we thought these were cool looking. Live an learn. :D


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[eskymick]

Red (striped) squirrelfish. Ate my shrimps and killed my turbos.

[danceswithfish]

Frozen shrimp............................fed right to one aiptasia.

Now I have tons!

[HBtank]

Plain old hitchiking A. mushroom. Dealing with it right now.

Literally, in just two weeks, it has spawned 4 new ones I can see. I can see where this is going, time to take action.