What Was Your First Ever Fish?

[meguro]

I got a whole bunch of fish at the same time. Angels, swords, neons, tiger barbs, corys, bn, rtbs, clown loaches, gouramis. They all went into a 4ft tank. You can probably guess the results pretty accurately.

 

[indigoj]

Mine was the 4" Pink Kissing Gourami who was the sole inhabitant of my 1st 100l tank bought complete off ebay - she's now living it up in my 6ft.

 

[saltynay]

red cap orando in a 5 gallon tank

 

[joncairns]

Mine was a red tailed black shark (labeo Bicolour) followed by swordtails,dwarf gourami,Angels and clown loach.

 

[Inchyally]

I think the first two fish I picked out when starting my tank were two Angelfish, so cichlid.

 

[LongS]

Guppies for me, got given a load of teenage guppies by a woman who had hundreds! most died as i did not know too much about them, which then lead me to save the rest by finding this forum. Now have been hooked on fish keeping ever since.

 

[fatheadminnow]

Like 100+ fathead minnows.

-FHM

 

[courageous_stumbling]

My childhood house was just right across from the beach where the travelling shows used to come and I would go over daily to get candy floss or a candy apple but on one of my trips I saw the goldfish that you could win and one of the bags has a very sorry looking fish which was obviously unwell so I told the buy at the stall who said something along the lines of "ah well, that's the end of him then" and he went to get the bag down. I then naively asked him how he would fix him but was devastated to find out that the fish would be tipped onto the grass...... so I started crying and caused enough of a scene (I was about 5) with my sister to get the fish and took him home. My mum was less than impressed and said there was nowhere we could keep him but I remembered an old fishbowl I had seen up in my nans loft which she allowed me to have and the poor wee fish was named "River". My Dad gave me a massive speech about how I shouldn't get attached because he was not a well fish, of course I got VERY attached. Anyway River lived for about 8 years and was a super wee guy who introduced me to the joy of fish-keeping.

 

[saz326]

first fish tank was a 100 gal natural salt water tank. I have no clue what any of the fish in there were, we did water changes by going down to the shore. Was a lot of fun to watch all the microscopic inverts grow!

WOW! That sounds wonderful. I'd have hooked a pipeline up and made waterchanges easy-pezy!

......Anyway River lived for about 8 years and was a super wee guy who introduced me to the joy of fish-keeping.

Fantastic bit of fixing done there! They are great little guys aren't they - Just a shame their faces always look so vacant.

 

[gremlin]

zebra danios

 

[courageous_stumbling]

Fantastic bit of fixing done there! They are great little guys aren't they - Just a shame their faces always look so vacant.

Haha, you should see the goldfish I have now.... I keep him in the with my tropical fish and he's just constantly on the go, like a wee dumb dog. He goes up to all the fish in order of who is closest and seems to snuff them, they take no notice of him except my 20cm Kissing Gourami who seems to find him of some interest & amusement. I know people dont like upgrading goldfish but I got him from this weird little pet shop / club where they had some sort of equipment failure which had boiled about 10 of their tanks and only a bristlenose and a goldfish had survived the night. Of course, I immediately bought the pair of them. So that's the story of Buddy the goldfish & Bob-Vance the bristlenose.

 

[-SPB-]

I think mine was a sword tail.

 

[Aussie_Dog]

First fish was Sweeney, a roundtail Betta. He did 6 months later when he choked to death on brine shrimp. I still miss him, he was a cool guy.

Before I got Sweeney, I fish sat a veiltail Betta named Ed Gein, when my sister's friend was going away for a few days. Some months later, she gave him to me for keeps, so maybe he's the first fish, 'cause technically I met him before Sweeney... huh... lol

 

[Kgforlife]

a goldfish that enjoyed peanut-butter a lot! In fact he died eating peanut-butter

 

[hotpink143]

He did 6 months later when he choked to death on brine shrimp. I still miss him, he was a cool guy.

LMAO!!

Omg that was too funny.

My first tank was a 10 gallon I found at a home that was foreclosed on. They just left them behind. It had a dwarf Gourami, some kind of Barb, and a common Pleco. The Gourami died from Ick. The Barb got ick and then died finally when fin rot got him. The Pleco was a survivor though! Eventually gave him to the pet store when I found out how big he was gonna be!!

a goldfish that enjoyed peanut-butter a lot! In fact he died eating peanut-butter

How in the world did you discover a fish liked to eat peanut butter???