What's your oldest fish?

**CSeaSee** · 10-29-2005, 04:49 PM

Just a curiosity thread... I've got several that are around 3 years old, but I'm sure people out there have some older ones. So let's hear some stories!

Three Years Old:

Falco Hawkfish
Blue Damsel- the old battleaxe, as I call her
Tomato Clown
Sailfin Tang
Coral Beauty Angelfish

Although they weren't all added at once, they were added in short succession, and have all survived four moves.

**vtec si** · 10-29-2005, 04:59 PM

I have a Tomato clown that I got back in Aug' of 1992(13 years now!) and a pair of clarkii's I've had since Oct 2000.

Martin

**CSeaSee** · 10-29-2005, 05:02 PM

Wow! I guess my fiance (who hates my clown) just have to grin and bear it for a while!

**Reefland** · 10-29-2005, 06:34 PM

Our Black A. ocellaris is 3 years now.

G · 12-10-2005, 09:35 PM

I have a six-line wrasse that has gone thru hell and back. He has tolerated my tank(s) for about 8 years now! 2 relocations and 3 tank upgrades.

**CSeaSee** · 12-10-2005, 09:52 PM

What a tough little character!

**Reefland** · 12-11-2005, 06:48 AM

Not old in comparison but we are proud to have had out Copperband for 1 year now.

**Poseidon** · 12-11-2005, 10:42 AM

My clowns are my oldest, 1 is older then my son at 5 years, the other is 3. I also had a Yellow tang that I donated to a LFS's 800 gallon tank, he was with me for about 4 years.

My Niger trigger is a couple years old now too... My copperband was the last fish I had that lasted less then a year.

**ksfireman** · 12-11-2005, 04:36 PM

I have two fish that are about the same age:

1) Maroon Clown
2) Yellow Coris Wrasse

I have had both of these fish since after my tank has completed it's cycle about a year ago.

Bradd

**dougc** · 12-11-2005, 07:58 PM

I had a sailfin tang for 11 years and a tomato clown for 8. Both were rushed to the LFS a few years ago after a tank crash. The tang did not survive, but for all I know, the clown is still kicking in someone's tank.

***zhenya*** · 12-11-2005, 08:00 PM

My oldest fish is my Yellow Tang that resides in the anemone tank, it's been just little over 7 years since I added him to the tank. First fish, actually. Second aldest in the same tank would be my mean spirited A.clarkii that I "lovingly" call a "SeaWitch", almost 5 years in my care.

**charlie** · 12-11-2005, 10:20 PM

That would be Gomer, my watchman goby, 7 years now!!!

**CSeaSee** · 12-11-2005, 10:53 PM

Great responses everyone! Keep 'em coming! I'm glad to see the thread show some activity after 6 weeks! lol

**Penguin** · 12-12-2005, 11:35 AM

I've had both my percula clownfish and Springer dottyback for 4 years now.

**cuttingrass** · 12-12-2005, 10:42 PM

not a marine fish, but i had a goldfish for 15 years in a 10 gal.

**The R/C Man** · 12-13-2005, 01:38 PM

Ocillaris Clown for 3 yrs now. As long as the tank has been running.

**Dragon Moray eels** · 12-14-2005, 01:32 PM

H.Dragon Morays for 12.5 years

**CSeaSee** · 12-14-2005, 01:56 PM

Originally Posted by Dragon Moray eels

H.Dragon Morays for 12.5 years

How big? Can you get a Pic up? I'm curious to see them!

**Dragon Moray eels** · 12-14-2005, 07:00 PM

I a male and female with as well a pair of goldentail morays for these two tanks are as one system. In the neek few weeks or so, i will be buying myself my own XMAS present. A 1,000 digal camera for the camera I have now don`t do well with it for as pic quality. Now the thing here at this site, I not know why, but I never get any auto responses that one has answered in this thread, so I had to look in thinking one might had.

SO it will either be before the end of this month or the starting week of the new year that I will have this new camera. But I can however tell you that the male is huge for one person said his Dragon was as thick as a beer bottle, but the fact be, the male I have is for sure thicker then a beer bottle and to give you some idea to its ability when it feeds, he can swallow down a 9-10" long and 2" thick strip of salmon as if it was based in butter.
The tanks for the eels as I always called them, twin eel tanks, even that their not the same size for they are a 70 and 130 gal tanks ruinning on a 40 gal sump with a ER skimmer and chillier. I do a 30 gal plus a week water changes and feed the DME once a week and the goldentails every 5th day and sometimes I even go a week with them now. For I check the activity of the goldentails and if they seem not to interested to hem when the dragons feed.
I some pics I took some two months ago, what size a pic has to be in MB to be able to upload it?
Buddy