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View Poll Results: Your first fish
barb 7 3.54%
betta 33 16.67%
gourami 8 4.04%
goldfish 71 35.86%
livebearers 42 21.21%
cichild 12 6.06%
tetras 18 9.09%
other (please say) 30 15.15%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 198. You may not vote on this poll

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Old January 16th, 2009  
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tiger barbs and a red tail shark
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Old January 19th, 2009  
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zebra

zebra danios 4 of them
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Old July 10th, 2009  
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my first fish was a few gold fish in a regular fish bowl, my mom bought them for me on my 8 birthday, i can't remember if i named them but i do remember that a begged for a bigger tank. then i got a pleco and found a crayfish that i stuck in there, the tank stayed alive for about a year. back then i had no idea about the nitrogen cycle, so i was just cleaning the tank alot
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Old July 10th, 2009  
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Mine were 3 goldfish "Moe, Curly and Larry" that i won at a local carnivel had em in a bowl then a 2.5 gallon hex then a 10 gal where they died a year later. but those three started a life long thing for me
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Old July 10th, 2009  
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My first fish were a pair of golden gouramis - they're tank was hidious looking with bright green and yellow gravel and hidious ornaments....you can imagine....

They didn't have names, but i had them when i was 12 - i'm now 15
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Old July 10th, 2009  
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my first fish were
4 guppies: Jester (R.I.P),Sherbert,Flame,Leo.
a RTS - sharky
and a cory - george.

They were my fish from my very first trip to the fish shop
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Old July 10th, 2009  
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shawnie and martinismommy surprizingly my first fish was a goldfish at a fair
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Old July 10th, 2009  
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A betta named Clarence. I inherited him when my Grandmother died. He lived in her nursing home room. She had him in the bottom of a vase w/ a hideous plant on top. I brought him home and put him in a bowl. I knew nothing about fish. He lived in that bowl in bottled water (hubby worked for bottled water co) for 4 years. I never treated the water, used a filter, heater or anything. I just fed him and cleaned out the bowl every now & then. I'm not sure how he survived!
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Old July 10th, 2009  
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My first fishies were Guppies and Platys around 18 years ago. Ouch I'm old.
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Old July 10th, 2009  
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goldfish at around 10yrs old
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Old July 11th, 2009  
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2 pearl gourami and 2 opaline gourami at 16
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Old July 12th, 2009  
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I was five and mine was a goldfish, with the fitting name of goldie.
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Old July 12th, 2009  
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i got 2 goldfish and 2 zebra danios as the first. when i was 2 years old. sadly i kept them in a half a gallon ice-cream container, but i soon got them a 10 gallon tank, lol
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Old July 13th, 2009  
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I had a goldfish in a like 1.5 gallon hex. I was like 5 at the time. I had no idea what the nitrogen cycle was. It had an undergravel filter with 1 little plastic plant. I never thought I had to do water changes untill the water became a dirty brown/yellow color and I never dechlorinated the water. You wouldn't believe it if I told you but he lived to see a 10 gallon tank and 2 other goldfish. He just died a few months ago. At the end of his life I was JUST beginning to learn the right way of how to care for a fish. He died like 2-3 months ago. If you read my siggy then you see I recently restarted HIS 10 gallon. Now that I know the torture I put him through I feel so bad... RIP Goldie.
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Old July 14th, 2009  
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The first fish were ten goldfish in a 15 gallon! Stupid mistake, but i didn't know anything about fish then. 8 of them died. the 2 lived in a tropical tank! 1 lived for 1 year and the other for 1 year and a half. feel sorry for them. but thanks to this website i now know.
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Old July 31st, 2009  
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My first fish were 2 Black Moor goldfish named Heckel and Jeckel.
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Old August 14th, 2009  
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My uncle bred guppies (I'm honestly not sure if he sold them or not), and when I was 7, my birthday present from him and my parents was a 20 gallon tank. We set it up with livebearers and neons and a pleco (i.e. other).

I'm actually surprised that so many people started with fair goldfish. I don't think I've ever had one... but I spent my childhood in a big city, so I don't think I ever went to a fair until I was old enough not to be hooked on taking a goldfish home. It's kind of cool, though, that so many fish addicts are born of fair fish. At least something good is coming from their poor conditions at fairs.

--And, Navyscuba, that first tank of mine was 22 years ago, now. You're not that old.
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Old August 15th, 2009  
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I had a ten dollar gift card to Target and bought one of those Discovery shark tank aquariums from the toy section (I was about 10 at the time). it didn't have a heater, filter, or a light. the next day I went to the LPS and bought my first betta (along with gravel and conditioner). His name was Gill. He went through 3 tanks and lived for 6 years. Amazing little guy he was.
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