Fish and supplies that are overrated?

[Oscar98]

In your opinion/experience what fish and supplies (light fixtures,filters,chemicals,food, etc..) are overrated and not as good as people say they are?

 

[Oscar98]

Ill start. Fish- the oscar. Every store i go to they say oscars are extremely aggressive and will kill anything in the tank. No they dont they will eat anything small enought. On rare incidents they can be very aggressive.

 

[ramonbetz]

whats up? i know that convicts are over rated they are dirty as goldfish if you ask meand reproduce like guppies they are gross

 

[LS240]

Rummynose Tetras. They're pretty cool but unlike everything I read on the internet, they actually do nip. And really, they don't have much individual personality.

 

[Again]

Jack Dempsey....the EBJD are beautiful but only live long enough to break your heart and die. The standard JD can become big o skittish sissies.

 

[bettaowner]

I would have to say mollies or platies. Both are colorful fish but they can be real mean.

 

[Again]

I would have to say mollies or platies. Both are colorful fish but they can be real mean.

"mean" compared to what an injured guppy? JK? Really?

 

[Autumnsky]

Plecostomus (most all ones sold at almost all pet stores, common and similar) as algae eaters and good community/pet fish. Only fairly good algae eaters for a little while and get gi-normous/too big for the average persons/fish keepers tank.

 

[bettaowner]

Every platy I've seen has been aggressive to dwarf gouramis. I really like gouramis so that's why I think platies are mean. Mollies get large and I had one terrorize my bala shark .

 

[shellyx]

I would have to say mollies or platies. Both are colorful fish but they can be real mean.

I agree totally, we had platies and they were mean to each other and some of my other fish it got to the point i re homed them as i couldn't watch them chasing and nipping my other fish all the time.

 

[MMantelli]

Seachem plant products. First of all excel for the price of a 500ml bottle at my lfs I just bought a gallon of gluteraldehyde add a gallon of distilled water and you have 2 gallons of excel. Just keep it away from all light. Then there's the flourish comp, trace, iron etc. you would be better off just dosing Pps-pro method. I will admit I do like there prime though.

 

[CharlieKlein]

Wait rummynose tetras are nippers .???

 

[Jake Larsen]

I have a molly that is pretty aggressive when it comes to feeding time. She will run off other fish if they get near her. And she is huge, I haven't seen a molly get this big before. So in my opinion mollies can be aggressive, I have one to prove it.

 

[bettaowner]

I also think neon dwarf rainbows are overrated. They are really nasty. They bothered all my community fish and are pigs when it comes to food.

 

[Autumnsky]

I also think neon dwarf rainbows are overrated. They are really nasty. They bothered all my community fish and are pigs when it comes to food.

I just saw those at the lfs today and ask the guy about them and he said, they are really bad fin nippers, not very nice! LOL pretty though.

 

[bettaowner]

They get bigger than I would have expected.

 

[nereksnad]

stores underrate DIY co2 by a ton, and overrate aquarium additives like tap water and test kits.

usually i steer clear of testers, but when i added DIY co2 i gave in and purchased a small device that sat on the inside of the tank with liquid in it, to tell me the level of co2. after a mere 3 months the suction cups didn't work anymore, and that was made by a high-ranked company.

thankfully i have a snail infestation atm, so when there's 15 snails heading up the glass towards the surface i know that i have to ease the co2 level a bit.