What was the first fish or coral ever?

[ivan]

I remember my first salt water fish,
It was a little percula clown and a anemone that I got at ( PETBARN ) in Pasadena about 25 years ago.
The place was one of my favorite fish store and thanks to them I had spend my kids college money :rap: but I love the hobby !!
I still love clowns and anemones here some of my clowns and enemones.

 

[Zoarder]

Mine we damsels was so happy freaking cycle lasted a whole month on a 20 gallons lol then i bought a bunch of fish and the only survivor was my watchman... still alive

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[djam]

Almost 30 years ago, 3 damsels and a dwarf lion in a used 55 gallon tank. Undergravel filters for the win. 2 of the damsels and the dwarf were still alive 5 years later when I sold it.
Damsels Alive:
Fiji Devil (yes it was)
Neon Velvet

Not so much alive:
Domino

I still love damsels and swear one day I'm going to setup a 180g with like 100 of them in there... It would be a bitchen tank.. for a while

 

[gumbii]

pfft... i started out with koifish... but in the reefing, probably a chromis or damsel... don't remember...

 

[ivan]

They told me to start with a damsel and I didn't want to so I got a $700 set up that day I set it up and I send my sister the next day to get me the clown and anemone
Lucky I got lots of live rock and sand for a 75 gal for the cycle to start.
my clown made it but not the rest of the fish that I put the next week

 

[sbandcb]

My first fish was a percula clown and my first coral was a green toadstool frag I got from someone local.

Ivan, are you still in the pasadena area? I am in San Gabriel. Your nems are beautiful. I just lost one and will be looking for a new one soon. Let me know if you ever have a split you want to sell. Nems and clowns are still the favorite thing in my tank.

 

[ivan]

My first fish was a percula clown and my first coral was a green toadstool frag I got from someone local.

Ivan, are you still in the pasadena area? I am in San Gabriel. Your nems are beautiful. I just lost one and will be looking for a new one soon. Let me know if you ever have a split you want to sell. Nems and clowns are still the favorite thing in my tank.

I'm Arcadia but it's close by

 

[mmarro22]

An electric yellow lol

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[lowbudget]

Chromis

 

[Emac909]

Blue damsel, it was cheep and tats what everyone said to use to cycle a tank back in the days.
Palm palm Xenia its was cool and I loved how it pulsed.

 

[lowbudget]

Blue damsel, it was cheep and tats what everyone said to use to cycle a tank back in the days.
Palm palm Xenia its was cool and I loved how it pulsed.

hahahah you horrible man. you use a fish to cycle.

 

[Emac909]

hahahah you horrible man. you use a fish to cycle.

Yep then what was worse, afterwords I flushed the devil fish.

 

[Confuse]

My first fish was my clownfish that I named Mike. I don't name my fish anymore cause they're so many and don't wanna get too attached if they die. Haha I still have him after six years. He almost died of velvet when I first started my big tank two years ago, but he was one of a dozen fish who pulled through in QT.

 

[ivan]

Blue damsel, it was cheep and tats what everyone said to use to cycle a tank back in the days.
Palm palm Xenia its was cool and I loved how it pulsed.

Most people back then stared with blue damsels

 

[ndrwater]

Coelacanth for me.. That's how long I've been around this hobby... They were new then....

My middle name is Methusa.....

 

[Rrocky]

after a long wait of cycling with no additives my first fish was a yellow striped maroon clown in my 14G. first coral was a frogspawn i think which went from 1-4 heads but i sold when i upgraded.

 

[Rrocky]

dug up an old pic! that feeling when you've acclimated your first saltwater fish...ahhhh! lol

 

[ivan]

Coelacanth for me.. That's how long I've been around this hobby... They were new then....

My middle name is Methusa.....

Sh&$ ur are a fossil 😁

 

[rayray]

green polyps (they weren't named back then) and green chromis. both actually survived several tank upgrades. but that chromis racked up an impressive body count.