(English Assignment) What was your starter fish?

[Anonfish4]

Here I am again lol. I decided to make another poll here last minute for my english project.
This one is to simply see how popular betta fish are among other common "starter" fish. So to spell it out I guess, what I'm asking is, what was your first ever fish?

 

[ghostno]

My first fish was white cloud minnows, (plecos right after)

 

[TClare]

Goldfish, in a small garden pond when I was about 7 or 8. I don't want to think how many years ago that was...

 

[fishywoo]

Fantail Goldies in what was probably a 1.5 gallon when I was a kid. =( Needless to say it didn't end well.

 

[tinylostwine]

The one and only true starter fish: Guppies !!!

 

[Fishfur]

I truly don’t remember specifically what fish was first - could have been angelfish, tiger barb, swordtail, molly, Neons or a cory cat.
But it definitely wasn’t a betta, goldfish or Glofish. Glofish weren’t even possible until decades after I started fish keeping and weren’t available to the public until close to fifty years after I was born.

 

[EmpressCat]

I guess my first fish was a gold fish. I got it when I was ten or eleven, of course I won it at a fair. I put it in a bowl I had it for a while but it didn’t have a place in my heart cause that is all I remember about the thing. I don’t even remember the name. I got a beta in adult hood that was the best fish it lived for five years sapphire I changed the water weekly. It was in a tiny bowl but I gave lots of attention and toys

 

[tetraguy]

I acquired my first fish when I was 8 yrs old. Remember it like it was last week. I had two neon tetras in a 2 gallon cylinder tank "kit". I knew absolutely nothing about the nitrogen cycle, or keeping fish period for that matter, and always wondered why they never lasted more than a week.

 

[TClare]

Glofish weren’t even possible until decades after I started fish keeping and weren’t available to the public until close to fifty years after I was born.

Agreed, I actually got quite a shock on seeing them for the first time when I returned to fish keeping after a long break.

 

[ColossalSquid]

The first fish that I ever had in my own tank that I cared for myself was a male betta fish.
I helped care for other peoples fish before that though and I had fish that were "mine" but I didn't care for them myself or they were more shared fish. The fish fish that I ever had that was mine was a goldfish.

 

[EllisBell1845]

Mine where Glowfish followed quickly by ghost shrimp I was around ten when I got my first tank and the glow theme was so cool at the time. One of these days I will create another glow themed tank if only for nostalgia sake.

 

[Sewerrat]

First fish I was fully responsible for was a betta at 8 years old first in family tanks were Oscar and goldfish.

 

[FishDin]

The very first fish I kept were Pristella tetra. I used 6 of them to cycle my first tank. They went on to live 5-6 years.

 

[circle]

Ooff, 5 years ago, I got 3 neon tetras that almost immediately died. I'm 100% sure I cycled the tank, because my aquarium kit came with a care guide that instructed a 30 day cycle. Honestly, I still have no idea why they died, but my next fish were 4 guppies that lived for a while. My last one of that batch actually died pretty recently. I'm going to miss him.

 

[BPSabelhaus]

Baby red ear slider in the stereotypical 80's tiny island with a palm tree "tank" and some feeder guppies.

So I guess wild guppies which I started keeping again. Bettas were super late, but it was the kiddos first fish.

 

[Fisch]

After my first tank finished the cycle, the first fish was a Bristlenose Pleco and 5 Corydoras paleatus, purchased from a hobby breeder. BN grew into a grumpy young adult, and he is now 4 years old.

 

[Kwikfab]

Tiger Barb was my first ever fish, started with a few of them