What was your first FW fish?

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What was your first freshwater fish?

  • Goldfish

    Votes: 45 27.8%
  • Betta

    Votes: 31 19.1%
  • Tetra

    Votes: 16 9.9%
  • Danio

    Votes: 11 6.8%
  • Pleco

    Votes: 6 3.7%
  • Molly

    Votes: 7 4.3%
  • Platy

    Votes: 4 2.5%
  • Angelfish

    Votes: 5 3.1%
  • Barb

    Votes: 2 1.2%
  • Rasbora

    Votes: 1 0.6%
  • Loach

    Votes: 2 1.2%
  • Guppy

    Votes: 10 6.2%
  • Other (post below)

    Votes: 20 12.3%
  • Mmm...dinner?

    Votes: 2 1.2%

  • Total voters
    162
Just a simple goldfish bowl. Now I have a total of 62 gallons of fresh, salt, and reptile tank.
 
My first fish was a red wag platy that we kept by itself in a 2 gallon glass bowl... It lived four years. Sadly, we went on vacation and the people watching the house forgot to feed him and do water changes... I came home and the tank was all cloudy and he was dead... I cried.

Now... 55 gallon tank, 5 gallon tank... and soon,.... 46 gallon tank!
 
My first fish were: 2 mollies, and 2 bala sharks in an uncycled 5 gallon tank! (wow, thanks Walmart!) then went to tiger barbs (again, Walmart!) then I got a 20 gallon. Now, I still have my 20 gallon, and I have a 75 gallon with harlequin rasboras and some platies.
 
A Betta :) and 3 fancy guppy tank mates ... that my mom brought home one day (she knew less about fish than me) they did not live long... I cried when they died
 
A very colorful purple/red/blue/green betta fish. I named her Goldy, because she had so much purple. She was a trial pet for a cat I never got :/ She died 5 years later for unknown reasons. We buried her in the yard...
 
A goldfish from the fair when I was a wee lad (Is that how they say it?) well when I was little anyway. My first tank was for Oscars though.
 
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