Reminesce

[chromiumlux]

What was the very first fish tank you ever had? what did you keep in it?

[jeremyreef]

i "tank sat" a 55 gal with oscars in it for a friend.

[marinelife]

For saltwater is was a 220 with a little live rock and a few fish, then down to a 75 and 35 hex, then up to a 180 and then the 375 I have today.

For freshwater 10 gallon with goldfish when I was young, then 29 right before the saltwater tank. I also had a 55 twin tube tank.

[Sunshine]

A 30 gallon freshwater. I had a black high fin shark, which I still have him today in a my 75, tetras, barbs. Saltwater was a 46 gallon bow front. Had a clown fish, chocolate chip star, sally lightfoot, long spine urchin.

[ghurlag]

My very first tank was a 10g, with 2 angels, 2 silver dollars, 2 painted glass tetras, 2 chinese algae eaters.

I upgraded to a 29g and moved them all into that. The silver dollars lived the longest at 10 years, and they got to enjoy the fruits of a 75 gallon community tank.

I'm thinking of getting a planted FW tank going in the next year. Compared to SW, it should be only a light burden on my wallet :D

[chromiumlux]

I had a goldfish bowl that I kept crawdads in.

[aquatic mouse]

My first tank was a goldfish bowl with two neon tetras, Mike & Ike. No heater, no filter. Neons were a lot hardier back then.

My first saltwater was the 55. It was a fish only w/ live rock. Now it's my reef.

[ghurlag]

Yeah, it's sad. These days, if you look at a neon the wrong way, they go belly up.

[~reefchik~]

Too long ago to remember. But it was a 10 gallon tank my dad and I set up when I was about 10 yrs old. Most likely contained guppies, platys, maybe an angel and a corydora. I've had several tanks since then. One of the more notable was a 55 with ONE Oscar and ONE pleco - once the oscar ate all his tankmates. The pleco was so long finally that when he got sideways in the tank, his tail had to bend, meaning he was was longer than 12". The oscar was probably about 9-10" and both ended up at a seafood restaurant in a 1000 gallon wall tank.

Another notable one was a 65 that we set on a brick planter in our front entryway and filled with live plants, community tropicals and locally caught crawdads. One day, the tank burst open (not leveled on the bricks--tough way to learn a lesson especially about a month after having new carpet installed!) and spilled the entire contents all over the living room. There must have been a thousand baby crawdads jumping in the carpet. Yikes.

I didn't get my first SW tank til about 1999.