Red_Pharaoh

My first fish was an oscar lol

FishVixen

1968 a metal framed 10 gal with Guppies. Of course I NEEDED a snail. Never got rid of them until mid 70's when I finally gave away my last tank. Guppies and snails go on forever.

JustinF

My very first fish was a guppy when I was like 10 or around that age. I wasn't really good with fish and I over feed him. So sad

red020804

my first fish were two orange guppies. one died 3 days later. we think he was sick when we brought him home. from the beginning he never ate and was always attacking the other guppy. even in the end he still attacked the other one even though his mouth was stuck open. it was gross.

R.I.P Fred

Jrobber

Livebearers for me.

catsma_97504

My first fish was a couple of goldfish I won at a carnival

Aquagirl1978

Wow Goldie was a popular goldfish name, lol My first fish was also a goldfish named Goldie, (was also my great grammas name) I got her him it.....at the local fair after throwing ping pong balls till my arms hurt when I was 5. Goldie lived in a 5 gallon tank alone for 2 years until I guess she finally got bored jumped out and i found her dead on the floor when my mom picked me up from my grammas house after she babysat me. She was my first pet and I was so devastated I said Id never own another fish. Ummmmm I think I got over the devastation because now 26 years later I have 3 tanks and quite an assortment.

josh11551

my first fish were livebearers (mollies and platies)

mcurtissdsu

Well....my tank started with 4 guppies, 2 angelfish and a pleco. One month later I was left with 3 guppies and 1 angelfish. After a battle with camallanus worms, I'm now left with 2 guppies and my angelfish but they are all from my first batch.

A Sneaky Fatman

My first fish were 2 giant danios and a common pleco

pongo

since it was so long ago I think it was a coelecanth

Alee C.

My dad had fish when I was younger. But my first fishs(I've never had just one) were a goldfish and a betta. I loved them so much. The goldfish always came up and would bite peoples fingers.

proudtobeafarmgirl

My first fish were two goldfish, got them before my 10 gallon was set up so they stayed in a large tupperware bowl on my coffeetable, amazingly they did very well and lived for along time after that, despite going through the cycling of the new tank. Poor fish.

ayelie

I had a goldfish at 2 years old. My cousin fed him crackers.

rmarkham

When I was really young, my uncle bought me a tank, no idea how big it was... and I remember having neon tetras... and others.. but its all a blur

but the one fish I'll never forget, his name was fred...

He was small, red and black and brown i think? He looked like he had patches of color on him... Now that I'm much older, and have fish of my own, I think he might have been a platy... but I'll never know.. I wish I could get another fish like him, I remember he lived the longest too!

FishHobbiest

I had an oscar when i was around 3 his name was scooby-doo, he died because someone or thing unplugged his filter..... I think he is better off where he is now i dont believe we gave him the best care

fresh water

a convict he lived forever

FLGirl

2 zebra danios earlier this year

JRDroid

Technically my first fish was one of three feeder fish we gave my turtle, he ate 2 and we had a new goldfish.

My first fish bought to be a pet was a quartet of angels for a 55 when i was young.

Many years went by and I decided I wanted to get back into fish and got a betta.

Akari_32

I grew up with Oscars, but my first fish was a Betta named Neon (he was red and blue and green <3). Surpisingly, I didnt have a goldfish untill I was about 15, and he didnt last too long (I tried to save him from the school fair, but it went terribly wrong when I went on vacation for a few days......)

ivan.tsary

I had 2 goldfish and a betta as a kid. They were named Huey, Dewy, and Bluey (the betta) after Donald Duck's nephews.

kefman86

I won my fist fish (a goldie) in a fair when i was 9 along with a shubunkin. the shu died after a year but the goldie (fred) lasted for 4 years! very good for a fish that was hanging in a bag for probably months before i got it.

TedsTank

A birthday present, a brandy snifter with a plastic plant and one neon tetra. The plastic plant did great!!! in 1963

myeviltwin

I started with two platies. They lived for 6 months, then died on vacation.

plecodragon

My first fish were fathead minnows. Were cheap feeders but they did breed for me.

mosaicguppy

i started with a female honey gourami

Charistory

Platys for me. They are hardy and colorful and [mostly] peaceful. I've got one that likes to bully one of the others, but not the other two. When I get my quarantine tank up, I think I'll give him a time out...

Stang Man

I started when I was 6 years old had a 20 gallon for my birthday and my mom bought me two mollies. Within months I was back and forth to the LFS trading fish in for supplies. Boy how they multiply!!! Thanks Mom for getting me started in this hobby I have enjoyed so many fish in my life time thus far and cannot even count them all.

AnnaEA

Goldfish when I was a kid - my step father brought back a ton of them from the university one year. There were about 50 of the poor little things in a huge bowl with a bunch of some kind of floating plant. Every morning for about three weeks the morning routine was get up, check the goldfish, scoop out the dead goldfish, feed the remaining goldfish.

Then they were all dead.

mr.fishy

I believe my first fish were goldfish. Then endlers and guppies. Looks like those are popular first fish