The crapiest saltwater purchase you've made...

[abe77901]

Mine was the icecap 4" fans, wow they suck, and i don't mean that in a good way.....

[Gator]

what was the problem i have some and they work fine, do yours speed up as the heat builds

[abe77901]

no they don't...thats the problem....i'll stay with the orion that just "blow" then away....

[jaded]

That would have to be my first large order of Live Rock many, many years ago... I had a reef that was doing ok with a few pieces of LR mixed in with porous rock I bought from a local landscaping rock place. After about a year of this I figured I would get some LR to make it a better looking tank and help seed the base rock.

I bought about 60 lbs from the lfs in Central Park Mall and got screwed. I over paid for a pile of coastal rock complete with hair algae, aptasia and Rock anemones. I didn't know anything about anything so the guy spun me a tale of how great all that "life" was. Eventually that poor purchase ruined my tank and after battling the aptasia and other anemones for another year or so I sold my tank and stayed away from salt water for all these years. Luckily my cousin needed someone to baby-sit his tanks while he had a house built. I of course caught the bug, found this site and now I have my own little piece of the reef to nurture

[TexasTodd]

SCWD

Todd

[Tim Marvin]

I love my SCWD's, mine was a bucket of salt. If I hadn't bought that first bucket I'd probably be able to retire by now.....LMAO....

[pilot_bell777]

UH....I'm going with listening to my wife and buying a Powder Blue Tang on impulse when I had only been in salt water for a couple of months! LOL..........I learned 65$ later that research is better than impulse and quarantining a fish is better than loosing your entire tank! I also learned from that experience how to buy healthy fish.........the PB wasn't from the begining.

OR

It could have been when I setup my first tank I got River Pea Gravel for the Substr and put fake plants everywhere. Looked great for a fresh tank, but the fish kept looking at me like they were in the twilight zone! LOL and then I went out and paid $40 a bag for ""Live Sand"" enough bags to fill the tank with a 4 inch bed! OUCH!

After I "LEARNED" a little more I realized that I spent over $8000 for a tank that should have cost me around $2500 to setup! Now it is hard to get my wife to let me buy things now. LOL
Let's just say I research everything to death and then research it a little more before I do ANYTHING now and I can't say how wonderful MAAST and WWM has been in that education. LOL

[Henry]

I'm surprised no one has said an aquatrend tank., but mine was a seaclone skimmer

[Reef69]

Mine was a prizm..

[Richard]

no they don't...thats the problem


Do you mean they are supposed to and they don't? I am using several of the variable speed ones and they work great. If they are the variable speed ones just cup the thermostat in your hand and they should speed up alot, if they don't then return them.

[SuperXdude]

my seaclone 100 skimmer always works great.

Crappiest purchase was a cowfish. Cute little buggers when they are small, but they grow up to
be ugly cretins.

[bprewit]

mine was a visi-jet skimmer I bought the day I set up my tank.

[brewercm]

SKILTER

[mkengr45]

SCWD and a Sea-Clone 100, both are total pieces of $#!t.

[LoneStar]

mine was a pos rio pump

never again....

[NaCl_H2O]

SCWD

Another vote for the SCWD!

[garagebrian]

Mine was a LTA. I bought a beautiful purple tip LTA at a LFS in Chicago. This was when I was 6 months into the hobby, I had MH lights and the LFS employee said that all it would need is the light from the MH and some phytoplankton. It slowly withered away from lack of food :( I decided to research every livestock BEFORE purchase since then.

[Ram_Puppy]

Man, I love my SCWD, sad people don't like them. :( Mine too would be a rio pump. Overheated, killed almost everything.

[garagebrian]

Well, my second vote is for Rio pumps, I've had 2 seize up and overheat. I bought a bunch when I first started the hobby. I now have 3 salt mixing rio pumps, never again in a tank with livestock.

[z28pwr]

Third vote for Rio pumps. Mine fried and stunk up my house in the process.

[SaltyJim]

SKILTER

:lol


I fell for the Skilter 250 as well...also my first item to trash.

[gjuarez]

jebo protein skimmer, it always leaked on my carpet.

[Brett Wilson]

Rio pump... luckily I didnt lose any livestock.

My SCWD works great.

[wkopplin]

Prizm, no question. Rookie mistake.

[Brett Wilson]

My Prizm works well on my 25g tank, too ;) (though it's not as good as other skimmers i've used on a nano)

[wkopplin]

Man, I love my SCWD, sad people don't like them. :( Mine too would be a rio pump. Overheated, killed almost everything.

I forgot about the Rio, yeah, I would have to go with that one.

[wkopplin]

ps, I like the signature now Brett

[Brett Wilson]

Thanks :)

[technomex]

Fake aquarium plants.

[mhaynes01]

a Normal Output flourescent I did not need.

[blueboy]

how about PC's, used for a few months, now can't even sell for a third of what they cost! i guess it goes to show, don't cheap out on equipment.