What was your 1st SW fish?

Mariette · Mar 27, 2019

aquaman67 said:
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 · Mar 27, 2019

MombasaLionfish said:
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 · Mar 27, 2019

BestMomEver said:
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 · Mar 27, 2019

bronxreef said:
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 · Mar 27, 2019

Mariette said:
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 · Mar 27, 2019

BestMomEver said:
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 · Mar 27, 2019

Mariette said:
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 · Mar 27, 2019

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 · Mar 27, 2019

bronxreef said:
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 · Mar 27, 2019

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

saltgeek1 · Mar 27, 2019

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

Richard Severns · Mar 27, 2019

Thaxxx said:
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 · Mar 28, 2019

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 · Mar 28, 2019

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 · Mar 28, 2019

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! · Mar 28, 2019

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 · Mar 28, 2019

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.