What fish do you shy away from?

[mickey]

Have you ever kept a fish then vowed for whatever reason,
ie. [It's to big, to little, it's a bully, it's a jumper or it's a messy eater ect. ect.] that you would never keep that type of fish again.
I am curious to know how you guys feel about this.
Here is my shy away from list.
1:Bala shark, lovely fish but grows to big.
2:rtbs, a real bully in the tank.
3:Tinfoil barb, also grows to big.
4:neon tetras, boring little fish, would much rather cardinals.
Cheers.

[ROLLIN]

Comet goldfish and common plecostomus, they get bigger than I have room for.

[dethjam316]

pictus cats...pimelodus pictus i believe is the more precise name. former roommate of mine had one in our shared tank, and it terrorized everything despite it's small size at the time (2 inches or so). it started picking off tetras and tore up his betta...which i warned him it probably would, but oh well. still, it was a nasty fish.

[WaterBaby]

A little bit too frenzied for me ;). Have had problems with them and aggression also. Maybe my tank was a little too small for them though...

[Dangerdoll]

tiger barbs, seemed every time I brought a shoal home they immediately took over the tank and then turned on each other.

[DanL]

I agree with Dangerdoll about tiger barbs

[PumaWard]

Tiger loaches are something I will never buy again. Just after our 75g had cycled, I bought a tiger loach(not sure on exact specie) because a book I had said that a loach that looked very similiar to it was peaceful. That same night it killed 2 rather large neons and a cardinal tetra. At first we thought it was our larger angel fish, but soon witness him terrorizing the rest of the fish... with another neon death. Needless to say, we got rid of him the next night, (gave him to a neighbor more aggressive species.)

[Rocketman]

Hmm...I've got Balas, and RTBS, and Tin Foils...

That some Pictus Catfish is something I shy away from. As well as clown loaches, (my water has too high of a pH.) Pleco's are too messy. Goldfish feeders are too big. Alligator Gars are too jumpy, (and too big for a home aquarium.) Cardinal tetras are always eaten.

[Rometiklan]

1. Any of the artificially dyed fish (eg blueberry and strawberry tetras).
2. Genetically mutated/altered fish (eg parrotfish, flowerhorns).
3. Deformed Goldfish (eg Bubble-Eye Goldfish)
4. Chinese Algae Eater

[Botch]

Sailfin pleco. A beautiful fish and a pleasure to have in the tank - until it grows bigger and bigger and bigger...

[Cearbhaill]

A little bit too frenzied for me ;). Have had problems with them and aggression also. Maybe my tank was a little too small for them though...

Amen.
NO hyperactive fish!!

[LMOUTHBASS]

here's mine CAE'S, painted fish, tigerbarbs (too psychotic), blind cave fish (those empty eye sockets are kinda freaky ) glass catfish(ugh wicked ugly) tin foil barbs (too big) - cant think of any other at the moment!!!

[dave76]

Anything that cant hold its own with my cichlids, my pictus cat and CAE do fine, but definatley not community fish.

[ArkyLady]

As much as I love mine, I'd have to say the common pleco. He's a very beautiful and graceful fish, but they get so large and he is a poop machine. Funny part is he was purchased on the advice of my LFS for a 10 gallon community tank. My first fish purchase for that 10 gallon tank consisted of a bala shark, common pleco, ropefish and a couple of guppies all highly recommended by my LFS. Gotta love your LFS sometimes :D

I'd also add to that any of the painted/dyed or mutated fish.

[tricksterpup]

Any Tank Busters.. I stay away from large fish.

[Manix]

I've had lots of bad experiences with fish, but none so bad as to keep me from trying them again under the right circumstances.

Snails however, are another story...

[dave76]

sounds like someone got some common pond snails......

[Manix]

Nope, worse. A couple of "frisky" ramshorns =(.

[dave76]

I have a two inch gold apple snail, and a 1"black apple snail. They do the nasty constantly but have as of yet to reproduce. I was actually hoping I could get them to do so as they can make nice feeders and you can actually trade in apple snails.

[MelJr]

Tiger barbs are the ones I would stay away from, too mean.

[Slappy*McFish]

Originally posted by Rometiklan
1. Any of the artificially dyed fish (eg blueberry and strawberry tetras).
2. Genetically mutated/altered fish (eg parrotfish, flowerhorns).
3. Deformed Goldfish (eg Bubble-Eye Goldfish)
4. Chinese Algae Eater


Ditto, except for the CAE.

[cdawson]

Originally posted by Manix
Nope, worse. A couple of "frisky" ramshorns =(.

Been there, I'm with snails as well. Ramshorns almost completely wrecked my planted tank.

[RTR]

Strange, I don't have any planted tanks without Ramshorn snails, or common pond snails, or MTS, or all three - excepting FW puffer tanks where they cannot survive.

But on topic, the things I will not keep:

1) Anything for which I cannot provide sufficient room at full maturity (tank busters will probably cover that, but it is not the same thing).

2) Anything for which I cannot or will not provide the right environment/food/current (which actually covers #1 again, but covers a number of non tank busters).

3) Anything which I don't know enough about to maintain properly and for which I'm unwilling to do the research (like trying to keep Tiger Barbs in community tanks - they are great fish in a species tank, or paired with clown loaches).

4) Anything requiring subtractive water modifications (i.e., RO etc. - I don't mind additions, as brackish, but consider the surtractive techniques too much).

5) Noah's Ark Tanks - all the fish, two by two. To me that makes for a boring tank.

All purely personal opinion, JIME & IMHO.

[Clownloach458]

Oscars and other fish that have to be kept mainly alone.

[SnakeIce]

searpe tetras and slow moving fish a no no

the best way I can describe them is parahna like. not the steriotype parahna but the oportunistic fin nipping eat them alive IF the other fish is not strong enough to swim enough to keep them from starting a feeding frenzy. now granted most fish we keep in a aquarium would have to be almost dead for them to actually eat them but the possibility is there

[demon_surfer]

the only fish i really dont like are the plattie/mollie/swordtail lines I dont know why but I just cant see any beauty in them like I can in other fish.

Oh and Lungfish scare me but I still want one!

[Nippy]

1. Oscars. After all of mine pass, if I still want one, I'm really going to stick to ONE and not 5, AND, only if my water conditions are different. My water right now has way too many natural nitrates in it and keeping HITH at bay is a constant worry.

2. Any "brainless" fish/ones that dart around with no seeming purpose but to eat, swim and poo. Sorry, but that's boring to me.

3. Vespicula depressifrons. Although they are said to be able to live in any water condition, "any" must not include my water.

4. Common pleco, just because it's that: common. ;)

5. Snails, because a dead snail is one of the worst smells I've ever smelled in my entire life. Roof tar smells like the sweetest rose compared to a dead snail!

6. And I don't particularly care for any of the non-pleco suckers such as the CAE or otocinclus species.

[somefinnfishy]

Bala sharks after seeing one in a 180 after a transport beat its head in to the glass till it exploded (his head)

[Clownloach458]

lol. that was morbid.

[NJ Devils Fan]

I don't know why, but I have never and probably will never get any cichlids. For some reason, I don't like them, only have a few fish in a gigantic tank. Not to mention, I really don't know much about them.