What Was Your First Fish?

[mike455555]

4 gold fishes from a fair (kept fish before but just in a pond as a kid)

 

[Devilish Angelfish]

4 gold fishes from a fair (kept fish before but just in a pond as a kid)

I recall Mum getting guppys from a local school fair and bringing them home in a jar. I can remember watching them in there. She tells me that I killed a few of them by pouring fishfood in there but I don't recall doing that. I would have been 4 or 5. sorry, little fishies

 

[three-fingers]

When I turned 8 I got 3 fantail goldfish in a 15L tank, I did my weekly water changes, and fed them small amounts, but one month in they started dying .

Needless to say, I had been given bad advice at an LFS, and the books I had were terrible.

 

[Reret]

My first was a betta for my 4th b day I've kept one ever since my current one ia alpha betta

 

[ethos_ws]

I won a goldfish at the fair when I was little too. Poor fair fish have no chance.

 

[Fish are AWE]

Wow! great stories everyone thanks for posting!

 

[the_lock_man]

My parents have 3 ponds in their garden. We had fantails and orfe in one, and koi and ghost koi in another. The third was left for frogs. This was when I was a teenager. I'm now 40, and the koi are still going strong.

First experience of tropical was with 3 zebra danio and 3 platies.

 

[Baccus]

I have seen pictures of myself in a baby bouncer infront of my parents fish tank with some large Angel Fish in it, later at another house we had some huge goldfish and my household green tree frogs ( they had free range of the house, this of course was prior to the modern pesticide/ spray it mentality of some people) and the frogs used to go for a nightly swim in the tank with the goldfish.

Techniqually my first fish was a very mixed (I was all of 9 or 10) tropcial tank with basically any species/ type of fish that cought my young eye and what I could afford to buy with my own limited pocket money (only get $2 a week was a curse, and the nearest petshop a 2hr at 100Km/hr drive away).

Later I had goldfish of my own, only because the house we moved to had a pond and the mozzies had to be kept in check somehow, I later added platties, sward tails and a Siamese fighter to this pond, I have since always kept at least 1 male fighter.


Since moving a few times I have manged to keep a group of goldfish that have traveled with me, and a few years ago I got back in to fish in a big way when my husband got a small tank and a couple of guppies. Since then the guppies have done what they do best and now comand 4 tanks just for them, then I have my beloved cory's and Borneos and of course my male fighter (and now two females) as well as an expanding shrimp collection. Aquatics I can safely say is an addiction you get when young and as you grow it comes back with a vengence .

 

[holidayinn]

Oscar which came with a second hand 30 gallon But the best fish ever

 

[Clarousel]

My first fish was either 2 platys or some kind of cichlid (we call them LuoHans here) when I was under 10 years old. I really loved them a lot and fish back then were so cheap! Less than 50p for the cichlid

 

[L_Plates]

My parents had fish when i was around 6 years old but i never remember having anything to do with them.

So i suppose my first fish was in March this year and it was 3 Mollies

LP

 

[Louiseness]

My first fish was either 2 platys or some kind of cichlid (we call them LuoHans here) when I was under 10 years old. I really loved them a lot and fish back then were so cheap! Less than 50p for the cichlid

From what I've read LuoHans are flowerhorns, awesome! Wish they were still 50p now, amazing fish.

Mine was goldfish in a bowl, like everyone else. My grandad had a community tank with a lovely selection of angels, mollies, rainbow sharks and neons, which he cleaned by dumping them all into a big beer brewing bucket and scrubbing the whole thing with bleach and hot water

First real tropical fish of my own was zebra danios in a 60l bowfront, sorry about that little guys!

 

[Kelly-Jo]

My first tropicals we're relatively recently and they were black widow tetras. But I do remember going to an LFS with my grandad when I was little and pestering him for some neon tetras and I remember standing there for about an hour with a look on my face like this


That's when I started to want tropical fish...it only took me 15 more years to convince my parents

 

[mike455555]

just think how many of us got into the hobbie from fairs... thank god for them the fish business would be crap without them ?;p

 

[creeker]

My first fish was a goldfish won at a fair. Kept in the standard one gallon bowl. Had him for more than 10 years, then liberated him into a pond. First aquarium at age 8, first fish I remember as Zebra Danio.