bryant

electric yellow cichlid.

spider_pig

I started with a goldfish when I was 5 then a fantail goldfish, then a betta named alpha.

nitz

Since I don't really remember the fish my dad had when I was little...the first fish I had when I started were african cichlids. Didn't turn out well so my tank sat empty for a couple years until i started it up again in December.

TSasaki

My dad always has fish, but my own first fish, were 3 swordtails. I didn't have a proper tank yet and I was unaware of their advanced skills in jumping. I come home one day and one of them was dead on my bedroom floor. It startled me.

Shaina

My mom had fish but I had marginal contact with them, and looking back they really weren't ideally kept anyway.

My first fish was a Betta named Cap'n Jack Sparrow, who lived in a 10 gal bowl on my dorm desk freshman year of college. He was a great little guy, but unfortunately for him I didn't know Bettas needed filtration, heaters, etc...he just had marbles and a plastic plant, along with once/week water changes.

Poor guy only lived from the start of the year to spring (tough little bugger), then we held a hall-bathroom funeral.


Hello, my name is Shaina, and I abused a fish through ignorance

molliemom3

mine were 3 mollies they lived for 3.5years all black
they were the reason i fell in love with fish.

cognizant

Like most people my very first fish was a goldfish I won at a carnival when I was little. It died after a few days and I was so upset my parents bought me a 10g tank and a half dozen mollies to ease the pain. That was 20 years ago.....

pinkfloydpuffer

I honestly can't remember, but I'm sure it was a goldfish or a betta. And it probably had a crappy life. But the first fish I bought for myself was my betta Floyd, and I still have him! He's a happy boy now, living in good conditions after spending a year in a 1/2 gallon fish bowl

owain

My first fish were goldfish won at the fun fair, pinky and perky.
pinky lived for about ten years and perky died sortly after

lilFishyfish

My first fish was actually sorta a family fish, it was a firemouth cichlid and his name was Pinky. I think I was about 3 or 4. My very fish fishes of my own where for my 6th Birthday, pretty sure it was green Swordtails and I think mollies. I had originally really wanted puffers and was so excited about getting them but when we went to pick them up on my b-day they were all gone......Looking back I remember I was sorta sulky about it, hehehe. I loved the swords and mollies though. It was the 80's I had one of those old green corner filters that you hook a air tube up to. haha I haven't been able to find those anymore....

Steen16

2 comets for my birthday when i was 8!

I wish i new what i new now,

they were kept in a 2g bowl with no filter just a bunch of oxygen weed.

Steen16

They still sell those in nz!! lol

lilFishyfish

I still love those things!!!!!!!!!!

sticky fish

My first fish was some kind of Chinese algae eater. we also had some goldfish as well, but my dad let me name the algae eater.

Red1313

We had a gold fish tank, (10 gal only but hey we didn't know) the water got so green it was literally pea soup thick you couldn't see the fish. They lasted a really long time though.
MY first fish were two Goldies 1&2 who lived a tragic 3 days in a 2.5 tank last year. (Pre fishlore)
Happy to say I have done much better now.

jgon_

Japanese Medaka and zebra danios were my first.

BlueLouis

My first fish was a goldfish. I won him at a carnival and we put him in the infamous goldfish bowl. I was about 8 at the time. None of us knew that goldfish need a bigger tank and the pet store didn't tell us differently. He was named Goldy and lasted about 3 months.

Cheese burger

My first fish was feeder guppys from are school poor things lived in a 1 gallon bowl all there lives