1st fish you ever bought ?

DAS212 said:
How about the worst fish I ever bought lol?
Sixline Wrasse: colorful, affordable, hardy and a devil in disguise waiting to get comfortable in your tank and start mauling other tank mates as they get bigger. Moves its territory from a corner to the entire rock work of the tank and forces you to take the whole thing down to get him and when you think you have him your dad spooks him and he burrows into the sand and the game starts all over again. Lol
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Agreed! the little 2 inch SOB chased everything in the tank. Then one day it tried it's fin at bulling the Debelius Reef Lobster and met it's match. Rocky had sushi!
 
The first tank I bought was a used 180 gal and it came with a honeycomb moray eel. That sucker was mean as hell! He was about 2' long and if you put your hand in the tank it would try to attack, I ended up getting rid of him.
 
I bought a blackmouth bicolor chromis, it was about 3/4 of an inch. Hid in the rocks, and one week later it disappeared to never be found again.
 
First fish were a pair of damsels, did great till a cave in got one and my hawkfish the other. Of course the hawkfish also ate/destroyed an anenome that my family got me for father's day. Before I even got home from work to see it.......
 
First marines in my home I remember during my childhood from 1978 to about 1981. My dad had a pair of Tomato Clowns, a Yellow Tang and a Snowflake Moray. They lived in a 75 gallon slate bottom tank. No sump. No skimmer. Filtration was an undergravel filter and a diatomic filter my dad spent $$ to buy at Christmas. I've never met anyone else that even knows what a diatomic filter looks like.

No corals back then but he did try to keep Atlantic anems. They were probably the only stationary inverts that could be kept alive when I think back about it. Lighting was from a loudly humming florescent shop light. At the time the LFS was in the Ravenswood/Lincoln Square area where I grew up. I think it was only one of maybe three LFS that had Marine livestock in the entire city.
 
Skimmo said:
First marines in my home I remember during my childhood from 1978 to about 1981. My dad had a pair of Tomato Clowns, a Yellow Tang and a Snowflake Moray. They lived in a 75 gallon slate bottom tank. No sump. No skimmer. Filtration was an undergravel filter and a diatomic filter my dad spent $$ to buy at Christmas. I've never met anyone else that even knows what a diatomic filter looks like.
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Nice flash back. Are you talking about a Vortex diatom filter?
http://www.diatomfilter.com/
 
A Bicolor Dottyback. And I still can't catch him to get him out of my tank. If we ever move and the tank gets broken down he goes!!! I can't have any fire fish or other small fish cause he kills them.
 
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