What size was your first REAL tank?

[Arowango]

29g tank with any fish i could find at walmart

 

[Zebra]

25 gallon with blind cave tetras, cories, zebra danios, and a bn pleco.

 

[redtailshark1]

40 gal with gouramis, tetras, 1 black ghost knife, 2 red tail shark, pleco, and cichlids and i have still got it running exactly like that

 

[Lepisosteus platyrhincus]

10g. the first christmas with my girlfriend(now wife, and soon to be mother). i stocked it with a peacock eel, senegal bichir, gourami, pictus cat. believe it or not, great tank!! lol. untill my bichir got stuck in a log and died. he was 12".

 

[Octofasciata Aficionado]

10 gallon with a four-lined pim.

 

[irishfan]

got lucky...parents set up a 40 gallon sw tank in my bedroom when I was young. Got me hooked. Made keeping fresh years later an absolute breeze in comparison

 

[adriggsvt]

20g with a pair of red eared sliders
my 125 is my first fish tank

 

[nickag9]

The 20 gallon long I setup last week is my first real fish tank. Right now it has 3 feeder minnows and a crawdad living in it. Once it is fully cycled I'm going to stock it with some small natives.

 

[Darth Scohin]

10g with Senegal Bichir, Gourami, Rainbow Shark minnow, and Common Pleco....It wasn't until I found this site that I realized the true error of my ways

 

[12 Volt Man]

15 gallon.

20 years later I am at 150 gallon so I have gone up by a factor of 10 lol.