Post Your FIRST Fish Tank!

[JardiniBoy]

LOL ... here's mine!

It's a 55G that I setup in March 2005. Needless to say, I wasn't a member of any fish forums then and believed everything the guy at the LFS said. I have since learned the errors in my ways and have hopefully improved, but unfortunately only 2 of the fish from that tank are still alive..

Let's see some your first tanks!

 

[Joshy]

Some big mistakes there, but nothing compared to my first tank many years ago.

I had a 5 gallon with two weather (dojo) loaches each at 5 inches. No filtration at all. Just a java fern in the middle, and the loaches hid in the sand most of the day. That was in addition to all the other young and newbie mistakes such as over feeding. I even did 100% water changes twice a week!
Needless to say i had them both for just under a year, at which time i got into the basics of the hobby and realised what drastic mistakes i had made.

Unfortunately no pictures, but you have my word on this.

 

[Siemens2]

10 gallon with a 8 inch pleco, and two large angels-fins almost touching top and bottom. How did they ever live very long, and the 100% water change.

 

[JardiniBoy]

I even did 100% water changes twice a week!

I used to also do 100% water changes and sometimes cleaned the filter out (with tap water) at the same time ... but that was usually only once every few weeks

 

[Joshy]

They should put the rules of fish keeping into compulsory education.
I can name loads of things it could take the place of! Such as 'don’t smoke, don’t drink, don’t have under ages sex'. Boy those lessons came in handy for most!

 

[ewurm]

My first was a 5 gal in 1990 when I was 10. Had two gold fish and no filter. I also did 100% water changes and didn't use conditioner for a year.

 

[---XR---]

found my first ten in my atic a awhile ago, so i planted it, held water fine and all
it's not how it origanally looked, but it's the first tank

 

[albyoscar]

thinking back

 

[Oddball]

Can't post my first tank. I can't find the old B&W pics from 1962.

 

[Joshy]

Haha!
It is almost embarrassing looking at/thinking about the old tanks of what are now some of hobby’s more knowledgeable.