Oldest fish in the box...

[DesTheRed]

There are years and years of experience on UR and often is the case a fish dies from one problem or another. What is the longest lived fish in your aquarium and for how long did you have the fish for?

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[KROS]

Tank is only 6 months old but have a pair of ghost carp in the pond that have been around for going on 11 years now if memory serves, it could be longer

[Lost Boys]

I have got a yellow tang and a clown fish that is going into there 4th year. :thumbsup:

[dan-the-man]

I have a single chromis in his sixth year in my care (previous owner had him for a year though I believe), a cherub angel the same, and a marine betta in his fifth year. :)

[bob's ish]

have only been doing marines since september so 7 months (hmm thought it was longer than that )

[instantsquid]

Only had marines for 4 years, but my Regal Tang was a couple of years old when I got it. Also got a single Chromis that's about the same age.

[SCOOB]

i remember valleyboys yellow tang celebrating its 10th birthday last year.

clowns/regal tang/yellow tang, all 6 years with me.

[eyeMAJIC]

Only kept marines for about two years, but I hope the ones we have last a long time.
My oldest goldfish when he died was fifteen, and for the last few years he was completely white (piscine equivalent of grey hair I presume)

[Matt G]

I have had a pair of clowns for 11 years. My majestic Angel I will have had for 8 years in August (found the book the other day where I wrote when I got it).

[zoe4eva]

i have had a goldfish at my mums old house survive now for 18yrs!:D and he has a bit of a bent back. he is huge but happy!:D and no its not the whole new fish when it dies thing....my mum hates fish, if it died she'd have a party not get a new one!:laugh:

[hihat]

Yellow Tang 5 years, first marine fish I brought:)

[CHRIS D]

I'm loath to say it, as when I was boasting last year about my yellow assessor being 11 years old, he disappeared that week:eek:, but I have a common clown who's a lot older than that.:whistling:

Chris

[yipkm]

My goldfish from about 1989 won from a fair in my mum and dads pond, probably was a year old then

[Cjay22]

Four chromis from day 1,about 4 years

[Joeyjoejoe]

The shop I used to work at, a well known one in Hampshire, has a display tank that housed a coral beauty that was around 18 years old when it finally disappeared. It also has a huge rose anemone (i think) that is still going strong and around 16/17 years old. I used to point out to customers that the coral beauty was older then one of the members of staff!!

[pavlo]

Had my clown for 14 years, and many of my other were added to my current tank when it was set up 6 years ago (3 Regal tangs, 5 of the 6 Yellow tangs, an anthias, Flame angel, bangai cardinal and probably a few more)

[kizkiz]

Considering i've only been going for about 2.5 years, i have a pair of clowns that are over 2 years old.
Had my blue throat trigger for about 18 months.

[fletch]

I've only been keeping fish for 3 years and the first fish I bought is still going strong, although he did go blind in one eye a year and a half ago but it's never seemed to bother him.

[Lucky Eddie]

Coelacanth.

Apparently they go back millions of years..........:whistling:

[bony]

i have a pair of clowns that are 9.1/2 years old. several of my chromis are about 6 years old.

[Ross1]

Coelacanth.

Apparently they go back millions of years..........:whistling:

:D

[CHRIS D]

:D

Don't believe everything you read, I had one once, it only lasted a hundred years:laugh:

Chris

[niknaksky]

not long been in marines so has to be my male fighter 2- 2.5 yrs and still going strong.

[muzzy]

only had marines 3 years
the first fish i had were chromis, i think i still have 1 of the original ones.
after that were a regal tang, yellow tang, 2 clowns, naso tang, leopard wrasse, PJ cardinal, powder brown tang, magnificant rabbitfish all between 2 and 3 years old now

[~JayK~]

My Yellow Tang and Clowns are as near to 8 as I can count!!

Been in this house 5 years, had the fish in my old aquarium at old house for nearly 3 years. Bloody things are like proverbial brick sh*thouses - going like gooduns!!

[jeffd]

Longest i've kept a marine fish was 11 yrs 2 months for a Green Chromis
bought October 1991 - died in my first ever whitespot outbreak in Jan 2003.

Oldest in my current setup is an August 2003 Yellow Tang.

[Wombat]

My royal gramma (now residing in a friends tank in the UK) is 14 my YT and female false percula are 8 & 9 respectively

[HowardM]

Only been keeping marines for about a year and a half , but i keep goldfish as well ..

My last one was 20 when he died , my current one is 12 ...

[jellyfisch]

I've had many fish go into their 6th year, but only one has been with me over 7, my Centropyge bispinosus. He has survived, Cryptocarion 5 or 6 times, Amyoodinium, tank crashes, bullies, etc and looks gorgeous. He is the surviviour of a group of three and was the smallest of the group!

Other longlived fish have been P. annularis, A. tricolour, Rh. quesita and Ct. striatus.

[blub]

one of my origional first clownfish. :wub: getting on 5 years :)

[cajen]

Had a flame angel in my old FO for 7 years (and was adult when I bought him) - he'd still be going now, I'm sure, but for a nasty whitespot outbreak.

[Jungleking]

Had a goldfish that was bought from a small pet shop about 15 years before he past away as an old guy so he would of been about 16-17

[Screwloose]

i have 3 percula clowns that are,,,,,,,,16 years old now :D