What was your 1st SW fish?

[Mariette]

I started my tank with a clown fish pair in 2002.

As of this morning they were both still alive.

Wow I love that.

 

[Oshengems]

Wow tell more.

lol

18-19 got a refund from school went to the mall with my gf to buy some sneakers, walked into a Petland Discount had never seen saltwater fish before and I think the dude at the petshop saw how strucked and excited I was to actually see corals and saltwater fish and told me we have a special $300 for a 55g, stand, canister filter and gravel for will hold the eel for you... I said say no more take my money lol

Up to date the most expensive fish I’ve bought imagine spending almost $200 in 1999 on a fish lol

Edit: I couldn’t afford the sneakers after my splurge lol

 

[Mariette]

2002.... bought one tiny domino damsel for a 500 gallon tank. He was absolutely adorable. I guess he was purchased to cycle the tank which is kinda funny since he was so tiny and the tank was so big. He ended up almost 5” long, a muddy black-brown color, and mean as the devil. I had to catch him with a hook and some shrimp. Took him back to the LFS. They put him in their DT where he lived another 10 years or so.

You went fishing in your aquarium? Hahahaha it’s amazing he survived so long after too. What a catch!

 

[Mariette]

lol

18-19 got a refund from school went to the mall with my gf to buy some sneakers, walked into a Petland Discount had never seen saltwater fish before and I think the dude at the petshop saw how strucked and excited I was to actually see corals and saltwater fish and told me we have a special $300 for a 55g, stand, canister filter and gravel for will hold the eel for you... I said say no more take my money lol

Up to date the most expensive fish I’ve bought imagine spending almost $200 in 1999 on a fish lol

Edit: I couldn’t afford the sneakers after my splurge lol

And the best story award goes to .... @bronxreef!!!!

 

[BestMomEver]

You went fishing in your aquarium? Hahahaha it’s amazing he survived so long after too. What a catch!

Yep I did..... the tank was 8'x3'x3'..... had it not been for the 400 lbs of rock, my kids could have gone swimming! Could not catch or trap him and taking the water/rock out was NOT an option. So, rod and reel were the next best thing. We were very careful to not injure him. As soon as he took the shrimp, we scooped him with the net. And we took the barb off the hook. He was fine... a little ticked off, but none the worse for wear.

 

[Mariette]

Yep I did..... the tank was 8'x3'x3'..... had it not been for the 400 lbs of rock, my kids could have gone swimming! Could not catch or trap him and taking the water/rock out was NOT an option. So, rod and reel were the next best thing. We were very careful to not injure him. As soon as he took the shrimp, we scooped him with the net. And we took the barb off the hook. He was fine... a little ticked off, but none the worse for wear.

Holy cow.

 

[Oshengems]

And the best story award goes to .... @bronxreef!!!!

Thank you thank you I’m so honored lol..

Also had a porcupine puffer, volitan lionfish and a yellow tang, what made me give up you ask besides being in my early 20s in a city that never sleeps... I remember walking into a petco and seeing in person a bi color dwarf angel and again went crazy snatched him up with again the last $40 in my pocket on a Friday I remember. Got home excited I was adding color to my tank... didn’t last 30sec my Eel made quick work of him. I was heartbroken starterd giving away everything after that day, but bounced back although it took me a while 2016 lol

 

[Nathan Milender]

My first was trio of molly's to cycle the tank for an octopus. Octopus ate two, one of the mollies outlived the octopus and hung out with the load of damsels I put in there after the octopus. Eventually they went back to the pet store as I was too unstable with my living situation to keep a tank going. This time around, after a 20 year break, first fish purchase was tailspot goby, yellow clown goby, raindford's goby, and watchman goby.

 

[Mariette]

Thank you thank you I’m so honored lol..

Also had a porcupine puffer, volitan lionfish and a yellow tang, what made me give up you ask besides being in my early 20s in a city that never sleeps... I remember walking into a petco and seeing in person a bi color dwarf angel and again went crazy snatched him up with again the last $40 in my pocket on a Friday I remember. Got home excited I was adding color to my tank... didn’t last 30sec my Eel made quick work of him. I was heartbroken starterd giving away everything after that day, but bounced back although it took me a while 2016 lol

Oh no! Impulse purchases and this hobby just don’t mix do they? Lol. I Learned that lesson the hard way too. Twice

 

[Musovski]

My first fish were a pair of Black Ice Snowflake clowns.

 

[saltgeek1]

Tomato Clown Fish in a 10gallon tank almost 30yrs ago and I have been hooked ever since

 

[Richard Severns]

A baby hammerhead shark I caught off the pier when I was 9. That's when it all started 50 years ago.

That's gotta be one of the most unique way I've heard of

 

[Jpconer]

cycle my first saltwater tank in 1978 0r '79 with 4 blue and 4 yellow tail blue damsels...I think 2 died in cycle... was a 55 gallon with an airstone powered undergravel filter, silica sand bottom and a supreme aqua king filter hanging on the back with 2 - 40watt Vita Lite bulbs

 

[Iona Skye]

I adapted my guppies to brackish water, then salt water, then after it was fully cycled I added hermits, then blue green chromis, then other fish bit by bit. So my first saltwater fish was actually freshwater guppies!

As to what happened to them... the guppies became lunch for saltwater predators. Probably my snowflake eel named Amore.

(Hopefully that doesn't sound mean or anything. I used to feed live food quite often, especially to my teeny fuzzy dwarf lion who ONLY ate live food no matter how hard I tried to train him to eat frozen. But I was ready for him because I had already been raising guppies, plattys and crays so I had a solid supply of bite-sized morsels for him.)

 

[TvanB1]

Green chromis. Still have him. Hasnt grown a bit. Still manages to steal food from all of my other fish including wrasses and tangs. I have to fill him up with pellets before anyone else can eat because he is lightning fast.

 

[Seaqueen1!]

Chocolate chip sea stars got me into the hobby had 2 to start me off lasted awhile but my 1st fish was a maroon clown <3 his name was (you guessed it) Marlin !

 

[Zwogle]

PJ Cardinal. After my tank was cycled, I was at my LFS looking around and asking questions. They ended up giving me free frag of GSP, and I felt a little guilty just getting some thing for free so we picked up PJ. That was 3 years ago, neither me or my wife really like him, but I can bring myself to re-home it.

 

[Hillbillyreefer]

A pair of ocellaris clowns. Strangely enough that was the first pair the kids picked to go into the rebooted tank 10 yrs later.

 

[AquaLifeStudio]

Blue devil damselfish, first fish added and first fish removed and taken back to the store.

 

[Bob Weigant]

I can’t even remember