What fish did you start off in the hobby with?

[anonapersona]

Pond fish

My first fish were the goldfish and koi I stocked my 300 gallon pond with.

They did great for about 5 years. Then they started dying off. And all the new fish I got died off rapidly, too. I gave up after another 3 or 4 years.

Later, when I decided to redo the pond (or else get rid of it) the first fish also got sick. I FINALLY realized that the 10 pound bag of flake food I was STILL using (now 10 years old) was killing off the fish I dumped that food.

 

[Clownloach458]

I started of with the typical. 5gallon tank. with livebearers(excelent beginner fish). my friend (swedishfish) got me into the hobby after he had kept a betta for a while and got a 10g tank. a first i thought fish were boring.. now my life revolves around fish. Then i found out about loaches

 

[Stephen]

Guppies... 10 gallon tank which they soon overpopulated.

 

[Andy16]

2 zebra danios.

 

[Fishskin]

Male and female guppies in a 5 gallon "marble" Metaframe tank over 50 years ago.

 

[Glenstorm]

3- 20G Head and Tail light tetras

Which then expanded to 2-pearl gouramis, 1-BGK, 1-Bosemanii rainbow, 1-green cory, and a pair of swordtails.

Now I have a breeding tank FULL of swordtails, and a 75G rift lake setup.

 

[viboy]

yeah, yeah - roast me

1 10 gallon tank and 1 tiger oscar. I bought the fish and the tank brand new at the store. The owner didn't say a word.

The oscar lived happily on earthworms and sucker roe until he was about 6 inches long then I traded him in. Religiously cleaning the tank seemed to keep him happy.

 

[ianjoe]

I started out 2 years ago with black fin tetras, panda cories, and a yellow gourmi.

 

[valerie]

I had goldfish in a 15g since i was little. Then about 6 years ago i thougth about starting the tank up again and bought 3 fantail goldfish. Soon 2 died so i got some zebra danios, because the guy at the petstore said they did fine without heaters. They go sick and soon died so i decided to check on the internet to figure out why they died. Then my obsession began and i started my tank again and proptly began getting bigger and bigger tanks.

 

[pinballqueen]

Go ahead, flame if you'd like.

My first fish was a county fair goldfish. I was 7 or 8 I think. I won it in that game where you throw the pingpong ball into the betta bowl to win the fish in it, you know?

Well, it was 110 degrees outside, and the fish actually survived and made it home... to my little bitty gumball machine fish tank that I got for my birthday. I think it was a half-gallon, maybe?

Funny thing is, the danged thing lived for nearly 2 years in the thing.. I don't think it had room to turn around It finally died when I moved to Tennessee. It got too hot in the bag in the floorboard of my uncle's truck (coming from florida on a 12 hour trip....)

At that point, the bug had already bitten me, and my mom, so we had a 72-gallon custom built and kept tropicals...

Lookin back on it, I feel terrible for the way the poor thing had to live But I know better now.