What Not To Keep In Your Tank And Why!

[seffieuk]

There are many things we wish to keep in our tanks but there are also many things we shouldn't keep for varies reasons: toxicity, abilty to be kept alive etc.

http/www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/content.php?sid=3126&utm_source=PFK_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=August_12_2010_a&utm_term=10_marine_invertebrates_to_avoid&utm_content=html

What would you like to add to the list?

Seffie x

 

[lljdma06]

There are many things we wish to keep in our tanks but there are also many things we shouldn't keep for varies reasons: toxicity, abilty to be kept alive etc.

http/www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/content.php?sid=3126&utm_source=PFK_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=August_12_2010_a&utm_term=10_marine_invertebrates_to_avoid&utm_content=html

What would you like to add to the list?

Seffie x

I'm not a salty, I currently go Green! I do, however, enjoy reading pinnned topics, especially Marine-related ones (One day, to the chagrin of all here, I will go Marine! ) A quick scan of the pins in this section revealed this...

Risky Stocking Options

Besides the initial post, the subsequent commentary is also very interesting; and something you will not usually find in an article.

llj

 

[Harry1996]

found a few in a book

CATALINA PEPPERMINT SHRIMP theses shrimp need colder water and will die in warm water. theses shrimp are often sold in aquarium shops because they look the same as the warm water type.

THE BLUE SEA STARS. (Lincki) most die in a few months from starvation. and/or bacterial infections.

SEA PEN a nice soft coral but needs a fine sand ben of 20-60cm and most hobbyists cant meet.

FLAMINGO TONGUE. this snail needs to eat polyps and flesh from live corals. mainly gorgonians.

there are more but i will let other people post some other different ones on.

 

[seffieuk]

A quick scan of the pins in this section revealed this...

I suspect our lovely Plant Mod meant this: unless she is trying to convert you all to the Planted tank

Risky Stocking Options

Looking forward to you jumping into the salty side

Seffie x

 

[Morri]

They did kinda hit the easy ones

Any octopus should be avoided even though there is a hardcore bunch of keepers in the US these need very speacilist care.

Any Sharks at all even the small ones should be left in the wild.

Morays these should be left in the wild imo they never look happy in a tank imo will always try to escape.

Moorish Idols should be left in the wild as they do not do very well in captivity

Regal Tangs far far to many are brought into this country to be squeezed into tanks that are to snall for them.

Garden Centres that sell marine fish these kill more inverts fish and corals than anything else they think they are as good a cash cow as trops and in general there staff are not knowledgable enough to sell them.

Bedlet anenomes should not be kept in a tropical marine aquarium

I do see any harm in keeping poisonous animals in a reef aquarium as long as they can survive for a long healthy life the harm to the aquarist is always preset if you consider the "Good" bacteria we keep in the tank to manage our tank has the potential to kill us or may you verk sick it gets into a open wound.

Let alone the amount of electricity and saltwater we mixd together!

These are a lot less likely to harm you than a sting from a lion fish

 

[lljdma06]

A quick scan of the pins in this section revealed this...

I suspect our lovely Plant Mod meant this: unless she is trying to convert you all to the Planted tank

Risky Stocking Options

Looking forward to you jumping into the salty side

Seffie x

I fixed the link. That was the exact TFF thread I was referring too. I was checking PARC (to determine revisions) when this thread caught my eye. Not trying to covert anyone here to Planted. Most of you couldn't handle it. The whole "phospates and nitrates are actually good" concepts would throw you off. SW would be a walk in the PARC...


llj

 

[nick87]

Most starfises, they just don't survive.

I also think anemones, while alot of people keep them successfully i just think something that can live for hundreds of years should be left where it belongs.

 

[ben1987]

potters angel.

deep water fish that needs a lot cooler temp

 

[sorgan]

Lightning scallops, need MASSIVE amounts of planktonic life to survive as they don't have any photosynthetic friends to help.

 

[Donya]

Now hang on a second here. I'm going through the list in that first link of "10 marine invertebrates to avoid"...

Nudis...finicky eaters, check.
Finicky coral, check.
Feather stars...finicky eaters, check.
Urchin that kills you if you touch it, check.
Finicky nems, check.
Large hermit crabs...eh?!

So are we talking things to avoid in a REEF, or things to avoid ALWAYS? 'Cause if its reefs only then I can list half the stuff I keep.

 

[seffieuk]

So are we talking things to avoid in a REEF, or things to avoid ALWAYS? 'Cause if its reefs only then I can list half the stuff I keep.

When I wrote the first post I was thinking of things you shouldnt keep in a tank, full stop! So for example - Goni, imo the survival rate is so poor for this species people shouldn't buy it or keep it in their tank.

Not trying to covert anyone here to Planted. Most of you couldn't handle it. The whole "phospates and nitrates are actually good" concepts would throw you off. SW would be a walk in the PARC...
llj

sounds like a challenge

Seffie x

 

[ben1987]

So are we talking things to avoid in a REEF, or things to avoid ALWAYS? 'Cause if its reefs only then I can list half the stuff I keep.

When I wrote the first post I was thinking of things you shouldnt keep in a tank, full stop! So for example - Goni, imo the survival rate is so poor for this species people shouldn't buy it or keep it in their tank.

Not trying to covert anyone here to Planted. Most of you couldn't handle it. The whole "phospates and nitrates are actually good" concepts would throw you off. SW would be a walk in the PARC...
llj

sounds like a challenge

Seffie x

technically you need nitrates and phosphates in a reef

 

[Pearsondesign]

someone said morays up there....

im adding a snowflake moray to my tank next weekend. why do you not recommend them?

 

[nick87]

someone said morays up there....

im adding a snowflake moray to my tank next weekend. why do you not recommend them?

As long as the tank is big enough and the filtration up to the job i think i snowflake should be fine.

 

[seffieuk]

As long as the tank is big enough and the filtration up to the job i think i snowflake should be fine.

and of course very secure

Seffie x