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Ok the reason i started keeping fish was because i seen one fish in the LFS and i couldnt contiune life until i had him "The Glass Catfish" that little guy started it all for me and in all the years ive been keeping now i have always had a glass cat in one tank or another.

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Bettas and cories.

I think it started around third or fourth grade... we had a red betta in the classroom, and I got to take it home when school let out for summer, because my mom kept fish and we could put him in our tank. I really don't remember much about him, though...

I remember cories winking at me, which always delighted me to no end. We had albinos in one tank and some spotted cories in the other... no sure which species offhand.

The first fish I personally kept was a betta and I've never been without one since then. In fact, for the better part of the time (about two and a half years), bettas have outnumbered any other fish I've had. I particularly like the betta girls... they're more fun, and generally community friendly.

Bettas and cories comprise the majority of my fish.

~Meow. Thus spoke the cat.~

endlers/bettas

All of them.

Staring at my parents tank when I was a kid, until all of a sudden I had a little tank of my own with 2 guppys.

That started a hobby that would resurface again and again over the years.. Slowly I turned into the fish and plant addicted freak you now know as DaFishMan..

muhahahaahahahahahahahahaahaha

The Amazon Nut...

a classmate kept melanochromis auratus and ps. zebra in a 12 gal.
I loved them at first glance, but when I started keeping fish myself, app. 2 weeks later, I took on barbs and never stopped keeping those.

I've never kept malawis and I doubt I ever will ...

I would agree with all of them. I would love to be able to keep the larger fish, such as clown knife, but sadly I can't at the moment.

Actually it was an empty tank that made me start keeping fish. I'm still having problems with that to this day.

*wonders what to put in that empty 20G*

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neon tetras that i remember of from when my dad had a tank in our house, and seeing all my sisters guppies in her tank at college, that really made me want fish of my own, even tho i ended up getting neither of those two..

its me sk8freak20...i need to get premie so i can change my name back

my brother had a betta when we were in high school (long time ago), a year and a half ago I decided I wanted to get one and that started my obsession.

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I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
~ Mae West

my brother bought a large aquarium and it looked so cool that I wanted one too. I also needed something to take my mind off wanting a dog so desperately.

Last edited by fishymama at 14-Oct-2005 00:09

Not a type of fish really.. Just fish in general..
My first fish was a goldfish though

In the house I grew up in (lived there 23yrs ) my dad had a 55g built into the basement wall that always had angels, neons, and black mollies. I was most impressed with the neons, their colors and schooling behavior.

When I got my first tank I wanted neons but I was repeatedly told they were very sensitive so it wasn't until earlier this year that I finally bought some

I've almost always had an angel in one of my tanks. For whatever reason I end up with very personable angels that like to be hand fed & such.

I did try mollies but I wasn't too impressed

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There is water at the bottom of the ocean

saltwater moray, or feshwater pipefish not sure what i maade my dad buy first, i think he had the FW first.

I always wanted a fish tank since I was little. When I was over at my bother-inlaws and saw his new tank and fish, that push me over the wanting to getting line.

arowana..the way they swim and eat..awesome...ive been rearing arowanas since i was 6+ until now.