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see the point behind this thread, was to show that even u to, at one point when u started had little knowledge, and over stocked tanks, so be easy with new guys, and let them find there own course.

29 gallons and three little mollies.

This is my first and only tank, started in July of this year

a small 4litre(1gal) tank and 1 goldfish and belive it or not i still have that same fishy but hes in a much bigger tank now though

My family's first tank was a 25 with five tiger barbs, one pleco, an angelfish, and three zebra danios. Neon pink, green, and blue gravel. Still have the tank set up with other fish, and the gravel is somewhere in my garage. Anyone want it?
My first tank was a ten with one two-inch goldfish and a ton of floating anacharis when I was about ten.

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so long i won my first fish at the county fair gold fish i think he was in a small bowl i won at ring toss i think i was about 7 or 8 man i hav,nt thought about for years thanks older members will no what i mean/:'

My first fish were a baby brown bullhead (thought it was a tadpole it was so small) and a small minnow caught in a local stream and kept in a mason jar when I was in grade school. I was hooked the very next day when I came home from school to find that the tiny cat had managed to eat a minnow larger than itself! Next thing I knew, I had a 10 gallon, a 20, etc.

And yeah, we're talking metal frame, slate bottoms--classic stuff on those tanks.

Gary

a 20g long with neon tetras, corys, angelfish, black widows, clown loaches, barbs and common plecs.

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I think i had close to the most overley stocked tank on the planet when i started out with my little 10g.

I think there were 4 bala sharks, 2 RTBS, 3 angel fish, lots of kuhli loaches my GAE and god knows what else.

It had live plants and a box filter

10 gallon w/4 fantails.

Still have the tank, it now houses some barbs, rainbows, tetras and a boatload of snails and plants.

a 20 gallon long with some mollys sword tails and a group of cories

yeah

when I was 6 or 7 , I got a 5 gal fish bowl. It had 3 gold fish, 3 neons, 2 zebras and one cory. Only gravel and an air pump. Water was changed twice a week, about 2 gals at a time. Turns out the Gold fish ate all the other fish. One of the goldfish lived about 10 months.

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My first tank was a ten gallon. It had a box filter, blue gravel and glass top. It was stocked with a bala shark, an iridesent (sp?) shark, a silver tipped shark, 3 neons, a common pleco, a male betta, and 2 painted glass fish. This was all sold to me at the same time from a strict lfs that had a strict ONE FISH PER GALLON! rule and "remember to change a gallon of water every week". I thought I was the luckiest nine year old on the planet. Well before I had a chance to do my first water change eight fish were dead. My Mom was so mad she wouldn't drive me back to the fish store to exchange them because She said "it had to be from me forgetting to feed them and I had better take care of the two that were left".Well the betta and bala lived another two weeks and that was it for years. This was 22 years ago.

6 gal octagonal with a wild caught yabbie named 'Presto'



For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. - Terry Pratchett

Uh... 1/2 gallon with my betta boy, Liberty. (Pre-FP, obviously.) He had a lil cloth plant and purple gravel to match the tank lid.

He was soon moved into a 1 gallon tank with black gravel (speckled with purple pieces) and three larger plants for him to lounge on. That tank got several makeovers and different plants, but he was happy for a long time in there. Then he moved to a two gallon where he spent most of his life with me.

My poor baby boy. He was with me over 2.5 years and just died last month.

My first tank was set up after perusing FP for a few months. It was a ten gallon given to me by a friend and house three danios to start the cycle, and then later, I added a trio of guppies. (Supposedly all females, but one was a male and... yeah...).

Thankfully, I spent my time researching before setting up a tank... and my fish thank everyone, too. No doubt I've made mistakes along the way, but I was saved from some truly bad mistakes by researching first, for the most part. Except, you know, that silly half gallon tank. However, it now serves as a nice place to raise java fern babies!

~Meow. Thus spoke the cat.~

I remember my first tank. 10 gallon.... definately overstocked... but to my defence, it was all info I was told by the LFS people...

I miss some of the simplicity of it too...

What I don't remember, is the first time i replyed to one of these threads

6 Zebra Danios,

but that was a long time ago, in March 2005

Ingo

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like my first real tank(still up and running)[but everything needs to be replaced] a 55gallon high that contained, 4 koi, 2 white/ 2 black(darn which i still had those, VERY nice for only 5 bucks. and 2 parrot fish.

well its still kinda fuzzy

but it was a 10 gallon with a tiny pleco, (named grampa) we had some zebra danios a few tiny little see through fish, i think they were somthing like ex-ray fish we had mollys, red and black 2 of each, they next morning babys from each..i had absolutly no clue how they got there..they were gone though by the next day and we still had gramps....the last fish living was granps, and my dad was sick of taking care of him, so he flushed him.....i am still trying to figuer the species...he was like 3in long, a dark mottled color, i htink it was brown and gray it had a sucker mouth..and thats about all i remember..any clue?..oh, and i remember the day we picked up the zebras..lots'a fish there was we had live plants and natural gravel, i dont remember if there was a heater, but we still have the filter and it gets used every winter on a water tub my dad keeps his minnows in

10g (I still have the tank, but all the equipment has been replaced)

zebra danios to start off, and cories I think...

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5gal
2 goldfish &amp; 3 guppies
Neon blue gravel
No heater
No gravel vac.
"Whats a water change?"

We had some fish before then.. When I was about 5 I dunno what kind they were though.