Your First Fish...

[MrPandaram]

What is your first fish...

why did you choose him/her?



mine is wild guppys.

they choose me..

 

[star4]

My very first fish was a goldfish in a tank in my room untill he was big enough to go into dad's pond, my first tropical was dads rejects from his tank, a pair of golden angels and a pictus cat, the first fish I bought with my pocket money back then was a weather loach!

 

[didz04]

In my brothers tank the first fish was 5 small white cloud mountain minnows which we bought together so not really a 1 first fish. Then secondly was 2 weather loaches as well awesome fish. You need at least 32" tank and then you will see how happy and active these fish are. The minnow have better colours on them when they are in a heated tank temp of around 23 degrees.

But when we got another tank in my other brothers room which were a 90l tank, the first fish we had were 2 molly's male & female and 2 swordtails male & female. We were just buzzing but one fish died the next day which was the male molly who was the best looking, he was a orangy but more yellow looking molly like a yellow lab but slightly more orange. At the time we didn't know about cycling but when we researched after he died we found out. Not that we didn't research before but the lfs didn't say anything about cycling a tank even when we told them we are putting them in a new tank.

The female molly that survived we found her another male molly in pearl white and also a taby coloured one and she end up having babies with the pearl white molly. We had to give the taby coloured molly back as he was getting too aggressive with the other male, and then later we got rid of the other male molly as he was harassing the female and aggressive to the other fish and even killed the male swordtail.

Sorry for the long essay lol, but thought haven't talked in ages on this forum.

 

[Ferg1985]

Well the first fishes would have been goldfish from the fair even then as a 6year old I knew it was cruel but had no idea on anything and neither did the family. In a bowl of tapwater for as long as they survived and when they died it was 'because they were from the fair' Really is a disgraceful treatment of animals!

Saying that, first fishtank I got was for my 11th birthday (wasn't much of an improvement, fish welfare-wise! but again ignorance is certainly not bliss!) I had something like 2 shubumpkins, 2 goldfish a pearl (?) and an oranda. Dunno what size the tank was, possibly in the 30 litre range (shocking I know!) but it got the water treatment and changes and as much care as we knew how to give. Then we got a 3ft tank (not sure on volume) for Tropicals and kept a community of tetras and over the years had either a betta or a pair of angels etc.

Coldwater fish went into a Pond, got a pair of Axolotls in another 3 footer.. then a big taller tank for mollies/platies and then they all got chucked but the tropical tank, which my brother took for his house as we moved away from my hometown (by then the Axolotls had died, were about 8 years old when they both went (within a month of each other thereabouts)). He took the pondfish for his much larger pond. Four years pass without owning any fish and then we're back in Wigan and I go and order 2 tanks within weeks of each other Cannot wait to get them set up and stocked!

Sorry for the fish-orientated life story lol.. I don't know what it is about keeping fish that is so captivating, its exciting and calming at the same time - all about watching them discovery their little world and how they go about it. Funny thing now is remembering what my old tanks looked like, novelty ornaments and any heater or filter will do as long as its turned on (not that there is anything wrong with ornaments and novelty items, each to their own! ) but my whole opinion of what makes a nice tank has shifted and its mainly thanks to spending hours on this forum and searching the net for images of aquascaped tanks that inspires you, you creative bunch!

 

[demasonisrule]

as everyone, I had a goldfish when I was 6

My first fish that I knew anything about, and actually kept were platies, because they are so hardy.

 

[snowflake311]

Goldfish were my first they lived in a watergarden. Then a betta was my first real pet fish. I wanted a betta had read about them and when to an aquarium shop and picked him out. He lived to be 6 years old and made a big 8 hr move with me. Fink was his name and he was a great fish.

 

[grumpysteve]

my dad had a tank about 20-25 years ago and apparently i had a couple of fish in there, but i haven't got a clue what they were. i named them jamie and david though.....

then there weren't any fish for a long time, and my real first fish was eric the golden barb. i rescued him from an abondoned flat when i lived in london. he was in a 30L biorb, no heating, no filter, no light, no food, no water changes for about 5 months. i made a few beginner mistakes with him, and things have changed a lot since my dad kept fish, so in hindsight non of his advise really helped too much!
eric is still going strong though, although not very sociable to say the least!

 

[fishyfeet]

i won three fish at the fair, kept them for ages in a plastic tank with no filter or heater
i used to clean them out totally empty the tank so they went from high ammonia to chlorine in an hour, they must have been tough as boots, a boy i knew had built a pond in the garden for his mum and i donated them and a few years later he told me he still had them. That was about 30 years ago now, di

 

[Harlequins]

My first fish was a goldfish won at a fair about 6 years ago... i also was guilty of not having a filter or a proper tank but bless that wee little goldfish is still going strong and went to a friends pond a year later when it grew to 6 inches long

Then i became interested in Tropicals a year ago,again complete novice and the lfs recommended 6 neon tetras to cycle a tank,obviously i know different now...the neons survived the cycle,but one became a bully and the neons would permanently hide,so i gave them back to the lfs and replaced them with Harlequin rasboros...the rest is history has they say

I have learnt so much here and still learning...so thanks everyone

Now i hope peeps know like me the humble goldfish requires more than just a round bowl to swim in....

 

[ian]

again, Goldfish at the fair. I would be about 8 or 9. It was my first responsible thing i had to do, i had no filter, did 100% water changes every week and it lived for 6 years. I then got back into it when we bought our first house, i bought a school of WCM and a Blackmoor, for a 8g tank, this one had a filter! I then began doing some reading, the Blackmoor ended up in my Father in laws pond and the WCM went on for a couple of years.

 

[onebto]

6 zebra Danio's what a baptism of fire they were.

unfortunately none of them are with me now .

But an exciting first fish

Regards onebto

 

[jourdy288]

Around 4 I had goldfish like the rest of us... Poor goldies
At 12 I got into aquaria with three zebra danios and a trio of guppies.

 

[-Craig-]

My first fish i had was a wild silver, gold and black stripy angel fish, 10 years ago and i'v still got him now, hes massive right now, but very old.

 

[stoneagedinosaur]

13 harlequin rasboras (bought 12 - got 13 who says 13 is unlucky!) I got them because the LFS said that they are quite hardy and would probably forgive some of my mistakes! Fab shoal of fishies they are too. On hindsight I may have gotten a few less but they're fab all the same.

 

[waterdrop]

My first fish was not a goldfish! It was 1959 and my dad set up a full community tank in the... dining room(!) with plants and everything. It had an angle iron frame painted black with little swirls of white paint that stuck out above the black paint in 3D and of course like all tanks in those days it had a flagstone bottom. I'm sure we had some mix of livebearers and tetras and cories but I couldn't tell you which. I was very little. The trips to the LFS were mystical because it was black and the only light came from the dim incandescents lighting the tanks. The ceiling was 20ft or something and the tanks went nearly all the way up and were accessed by rolling ladders. I still remember that as one of the better tanks of the many years and many tanks that followed.