Have you ever taken a fish back to the store?

[Matt Rogers]

Have you ever taken a fish back to the store?
Why?

[fletch]

No I haven't I try to do as much research as I can before buying a fish to make sure it is compatible with it's new surroundings. I also check it out very closely before buying it to make sure it is healthy and If there is any doubt I will ask them to hold it for me for a week or so just to make sure.

[sssnake]

Yup... my cinnamon clown.

He was the last one to be introduced to the tank but that didn't stop him from harassing the entire community.

Off ya go!

[coral reefer]

Was either too aggressive or was being harassed by fish already established in my tank.

[scvc]

A hogfish that my yellow tang did not take a fancy to.

[lunatik_69]

I have done that sometimes in the past b/c either it got to big for the tank or I just wanted a different fish. But the one that I HAD to evict quickly was a Key hole angel. What a terrorist, no joke!!!! almost all of the corals couldnt come out and enjoy the light b/c of that fish. pardon my french, but they should call that fish a A-hole instead of a Key hole, if you know what I mean.

[Tangster]

Well Like Fletch I know what I'm getting when I get it and if I get a bad seed that did not read the book on proper reef fish etiquette I flush it to fish heaven I'd rather kill it then pass on a problem..to some unsuspecting sucker Like a dog it bites once it will bite twice.. i have had to loose a few so called reef safe fish in my time..

[lunatik_69]

I dont see as passing it on to another. Maybe the person behind me doesnt have a reef tank and has a fish only. Why kill a fish!

[Tangster]

Suppose they don't have a F/O ? I have had several so called reef fish to eat clams or corals . I dispose of them.. Like many yrs a go I breed and showed Doberman finished 2 to CDX and several to CD. I had a male I was going to use for stud to breed , It bite my hand once while I was feeding him.. He went to dog heaven that night ! I'm a old country Farm boy I was raised to respect animals But I never loved animals .. Had I let him live he would have passed the aggressive gene on to his off spring I was breeding for temperament and conformation and markings Not aggressiveness ..

The point here is I had a purple tang took a taste for Clams he ate 3 of mine before I was sure it was him.. Now lets say I took him to a LFS to trade and I even told the owner he was a clam eater .. Now do you think the owner would tell you that the next day when you came in to drop 100.00 + for it ??? And you took it home and put it in your say large reef full of clams and he went off how would you feel then ? Its just a fish people eat them every day.

[geekdafied]

I bought a fish about 4 years ago and I looked it over carefully in the store, but they had poor lighting on the tank. When I got it home, while it was floating, I noticed it was covered in ich, so it went back real quick.