Your First Ever Set-up

[hmoobvwj]

A little fish bowl...for a betta.

 

[haynchinook334]

Mine.

6x "O's"
2x JD's
1x Jag
2x Pleco's
In a 55gal

 

[spring007]

My First setup:
Believe it or not, a 7,000 gallon pond! Had all sortsa fish in there..But that was back in india...Where I was for about ten years of my life...

 

[chonhzilla]

I had a kritter keeper with some blue gravel and with some fake plants and a betta.

 

[bitteraspects]

Mine.

6x "O's"
2x JD's
1x Jag
2x Pleco's
In a 55gal

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!


nah. cheehoo!

 

[redchaser]

My first ever tank was a 29 show. I didn't know what the hell I was doing, and unfortunately nobody at the LFS discouraged me when I bought a bala shark, a blackfin shark, 3 clown loaches, and exodon, a small eel, a lime shovelnose cat, a couple of barbs of some sort and 2 oscars for it (not that it's their responsibillity, I should have done a little research). As you can imagine once the fish started growing at all the bio load got crazy. I went out of town one weekend and came home to find everything but the bigger oscar and 2 of the loaches belly up. One of the 2 loaches died soon after, and I kept the single Oscar and the other loach for a couple of years after that. The oscar got to about 10 or 11 inches and mean as hell. He would bite your finger if you tapped the water. I fed him fish food, but whenever I had the chance I would feed him june bugs, crickets, feeder fish, small crawfish and my favorite "prey" to feed him was big green anole lizards. He would hit them head first and swim around with their rear feet and tail sticking out of his mouth for a while.

When I eventually moved I gave the oscar away and tore the tank down for a while. After a while I set it up with an appropriate number of smaller tropicals and ran it until hurricane Rita Hit. I was without power for 21 days after the hurricane so I lost most of my stock. I had to gut and repair my house and no way was I going to have room or time to maintain an aquarium so I finally sold the old 29.

I'm just setting back up with a 75 gallon and plan to do natives. I'm taking my time setting up, tank is up and filled, but I probably won't stock it until late March. This time I'm making sure everything in the tank has enough room and the right conditions to thrive.

 

[justintrask]

10 gal with a silver aro, 10 neon tetras, 6 albino cories, 4 zebra danios, 2 dwarf gouramis, and a poly

 

[Planteman]

Just started this past year with my 50 gallon. Started off with an Oscar, Red Devil, Blue Spot Texas Cichlid, Black Convict and one I'm not sure of the name, Starlye. Tried to find out about it but couldn't find anything or maybe im not spelling it right. Only the Texas has died so far from ich, but the others are thriving. Looking to move up to a 200+gallon after summer.

 

[Nick0]

4' community. Ended up with gouramis, clown loach, neons, black ghost knife, an angel, bristlenose, an archer and others that I have forgotten. Was good times, learnt a lot from that tank. Now all I got is 2 nano's. We moved and my fish suffered for it. In the next few months we should be movin to a bigger place and I can set up my displays again.

 

[green_fox]

back about four years ago now i got a festivum and two corys in a 10 gal... i did some research and found out that he would get two big.. so i traded him back for a con. and two lined barbs about two weeks later... sadly one lined barb jumped ship and i only have the one... (traded the con back right away and got two female kribs)

any way now i have a 75 gal and a 20 ....and a 35 (not setup)
the 75 has been slightly overstocked... but all is well (10 gal water change almost every day to keep wastes down)