Started with cons... Didn't like them for the longest time, but I still have the female con I got 7 years ago, and now she's fun to watch. I now have 2 fms the con and an ebjd, love the ebjd
It all started w/ a blue acara that my dad had when I was a kid. It was a terror in the community tank and i liked that. It then went to oscars. And then once i got some cichla I never looked back
I am pretty sure an Angel was my first cichlid, but it was over thirty years ago. When I was ten I set up a 40L with "Geophagus" jurapari, my first "real" cichlid tank. My first monster was a Managuense I got from a friend when I was 15.