Well first fish i ever bought were 2 balas, a bunch of neons, and a african clawed frog sold as a african dwarf frog...Bought them all on the same visit and then started to wonder why my neons were dissapearing
What was your first fish?
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Pantodon buchholzi, not sure what its called in the states, here its known as the african butterfly. Forgot to put the coverglass back on one day... poor fish =/
My first was a pair of common guppies and a corydoras catfish. The tank was a metaframe 5 gallon with slate bottum. Compliments of S&H green stanps via 1967. Reference book was a 1933 edition of The Innes book.
My first fish were 10 litlle carp, 2-3"", my wife caught.
She wanted to take them home,so we did...put them in a 55Gl.
NewTankSyndrome cost me one fish,but I learned quickly.
Now we got a guppy-breeder tank, a well stocked 22Gl and
now running a 180GL.Mostly SA
Planning for monstertank now.
I doubt if my wife had known all this in advance whether she would have taken the lil'carp home!!!
She wanted to take them home,so we did...put them in a 55Gl.
NewTankSyndrome cost me one fish,but I learned quickly.
Now we got a guppy-breeder tank, a well stocked 22Gl and
now running a 180GL.Mostly SA
Planning for monstertank now.
I doubt if my wife had known all this in advance whether she would have taken the lil'carp home!!!
My first fish was a 12" rainbow trout my father brought home from a fishing trip. I was about 10 yo and saw one of the fish my father had on ice twitch. I picked it up and placed it in a bathtub we were using as a water trough for some horses we were raising. I had a small worm farm at the time and would feed him several times a day. It lasted for several months until the temperature dropped below freezing one night. Upon discovery, I ran into the house with the frozen fish and asked my mother for some warm water to thaw him out. She explained to me why it wouldn't work and I got a goldfish bowl with a swortail in it for Christmas that year.
my first fish were a tiger oscar and a pacu in a 55 gallon, Had 'em since I was 6, started taking care of them myself when I was 7 and sold them at 13 because they got way too big, the pacu could barely turn. I still have the 55 gallon.
a red tailed shark, but i fed it too much one day, and the next day i was crying when it died lol
