pinky93

Jus wanted to kno what fish you guys started with.

Shawnie

mine was the good ole goldie won at a fair in a small cup when I was about 7! (holy cow..wondered how I remember that long ago!!! )LOL

poor fella

Devon

Fluffy. He was a royal blue betta. At the time, I was one of those people that had been horribly misinformed about the care and space that bettas need (they live in mud puddles, don't need any special equipment, blah blah) so I kept the poor thing in a half gallon of tap water and no water conditioner. No heater or filter either. Amazing he lived as long as he did. He froze to death in my house one winter when I wasn't home and the heat wasn't on.
I look back on that fish with intense feelings of regret and sadness for the way he lived... now my boys get all the room and pampering in the world. Maybe in part to make up for Fluffy's awful life.

Tavel

my first fish was actually an entire aquarium full of stuff. My cousins were moving and couldn't take it, so I took it.

2 tinfoil barbs
2 buenos aires tetras
3 plecos
1 chinese algae eater

the plecos all died within a few months of the move, the chinese algae eater was eaten by my turtle, and the most of the others are still alive.

David C

My first fish were guppies in a 10gal, I didn't know what I was doing and I killed a few... I nicknamed the tank "The Tank of Death"... not very funny

Martinismommy

Shawnie you're not alone.....My 1st fish came from the fair too! What's weird thinking back is my Mom bought a 10 gallon tank with a heater......How did she know to do that so many moons ago??

Now the tramatic part of the story....My little brother turned the darn heater up and the fish jumped out! To this Day I'll never forgive him lol....He was maybe 7 at the time.....

Amanda

A betta of course!

COBettaCouple

We started with a Betta.

KonaBoy

A Betta named Colour :P

Alessa

if we talk about fish in my life... when I was five my grand parents invested tons of money on an indoor pond made with huge river with rocks and waterfall of about 7 feet (yes, it threw water just like a real waterfall, it and it was indoors) with plants both fake and real, and goldfish on it...

Then they moved, I grew up and like 15 years later i got with my bf a tank with two dwarf gouramis... they died of iridovirus

Angela_96

I had a goldfish when I was in my teens, that was my first fish that was by myself (well when I was 12), my mother had guppies, and another tank w/ bluegill(sunfish) that we caught from the lake

platy ben

Well me and my dad used to share the 65G aquarium, and the first fish we got that was classed as mine was some big silver catfish . That was when i was about 6.

Now:, Im 14 and i have the 65G all mine and a 38G in my room, all mine .

Jillanne

My first fish was a old fashioned mud water cat fish. My father was a school principal and the fish was part of the science room. When he got rather large and ate all the fish in the tank, I got to take him home. My father took him back to the science room when he got to be about 12 inches in length. I can't remember much about the fish. I think I may have been about 8 yrs old at the time but I do remember feeding him earth worms as a treat & grossing my little sisters out in the process.

angelfish220

if your 14 platy ben, you should join the Student Fish Keeper social group.

Pandora

My first fish was a goldfish when I was about 5... someone was handing them out for Halloween. They did at least ask parental permission first, but we certainly didn't give the lil guy a proper home sadly and probably weren't the only ones.

fins

i shudder to think back on it now...but i had 5 mini goldfish in a bowl

Chief_waterchanger

http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/Spec...ry.php?id=3224

Heterandria Formosa. I believe that was my first fish. Start when I met up with Dino about 2 and a half years ago. It started with three 10 gallons, and now we are well into the hundreds of tanks and not far from 10,000 total gallons.

Slug

Convict Cichlids for me.