Aging Gracefully: How old is your oldest fish?

[theMeat]

Have a sailfin tang and a purple tang. Both I got from fellow hobbyists. Both are over 20 years old

 

[littlefoxx]

Have a sailfin tang and a purple tang. Both I got from fellow hobbyists. Both are over 20 years old

Ooo do you have a picture?? How big is your fully grown sailfin??

 

[DylanE]

Not as old as some, but my yellow tang is around 7 years old. He was around 20 bucks, don’t think I’d buy one now

 

[Janet Belanger]

Currently, a clown pair about 8 years old, and a watanabe angel about 7 years old.

My randalls goby went blind and then stopped eating, but we had 9 years together.

 

[Alexraptor]

My one and only Clown is 13, and still not showing any signs of slowing down.

 

[graziano]

Pair of ocellaris 22 years, flavescens 14 years, hepatus 11 years, tomenthosus 7 years, hexataenia 8 years, anthias 7 years

 

[Dburr1014]

My first fish 11 years ago were a pair of clowns and my royal gramma. I just lost my female clown last month.
The male clown and RG are still going.

Next in line is my purple tang. Probably coming up on 10 years soon.

 

[Timfish]

30+

20+ year old tangs

Great work! My purple and yellow have been in my friends tank about 7 years, now joining me after he left the hobby. How big is your tank? I'll need to upgrade for these friends!

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[theMeat]

Ooo do you have a picture?? How big is your fully grown sailfin??

She’s about 7 inches. Was about 6” when I got her at 6 years old. Have her in my tank about 16 years. Guess they do most of their growing in the first few years, and guess being in a small 75 gallon stunted her growth. Because I’ve seen sailfins way bigger. Has been in a 220 for her time with me. She’s also still very colorful and vibrant. Which I’ve seen diminish in very large specimens

 

[EchoPear]

We started our saltwater tank about 3 and a half years ago and our first fish were our clown pair Stella and Miguel. They are a breeding pair now for about 2 years.
But our oldest fish is a Green Spotted Puffer from our freshwater days - I almost forgot about him! Piff is over 13 years old now and has moved house with us twice and survived a leaky tank while we were away on holiday for 2 weeks! He is very communicative and great fun.

This is awesome! Do you have a picture of him or his tank?

 

[mfinn]

28 yo.

 

[AstroMelly]

This is awesome! Do you have a picture of him or his tank?

Here ya go!