I had a black percula clown that lived at least 25 years.
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There was an article on here about one that lived 42 years I thinkI had a black percula clown that lived at least 25 years.
Damsels are quoted living 25+ years. My 4 stripe is 10+ (we don’t know for sure) and he is satan when I try to clean the tank but super nice to other fish and everyone else he sees. Evil never diesI have a Yellow Tang , Ocellaris and Three Stripe Damsel that are all 18 years old and did one move with them 16 years ago. These are still 3 of my 5 current fish in a 90 gallon.
at this point i'm wondering how long i can expect myself to live...
. . . If @Timfish and his 24+ year old Purple didn’t die in the power cut, it would be the same age as me, maybe even a bit older. . . A 42-year old Clownfish sounds like the combined age of me and (hopefully) by then, a teenage kid or two.
I am not sure but I don't think my fireclowns are 40 yet. I think they are about 38 or 39. I have been looking through my old threads and can't find out exactly when I got them but I kept a Log book many years ago so I will try to look through that to find out exactly how old they are.It was purchased in 1994 so assuming it was 2-4 years old it's 30+ now. @PaulB has clowns over 40 years.
I had a pair but sadly the male passed away this year. He seemed to be on the decline for a few months and then he stopped eating and slowly passed away. I think it was 'old age'....Kudos to you for keeping a butterfly long term. I heard feeding and disease are major issues for them.
I had a clownfish that I had to pass off to a friend for 5 years in a hiatus from the hobby then got back, in rough shape, kept alive/healed for another 3 years. Within the time I got it to when I lost it (my fault, parameters) I had it for 17 years.I am very curious to know what is the life expectancy of the fish we keep in our aquarium and did not find any discussion about it. Does it vary with the species?
My oldest is a damsel who is over 10 years old, but my firefish lives were much shorter, may be 2 years. I just got 2 new ones and hope they will live longer than that. What is a normal lifespan for them though?
Some reef2reef members say that their fish dies of old age, how old is that? I certainly aim for that too, but how do you know they died from old age? My Eibli Angel must be about 6 years, and so is my rabbitfish. How much longer can I expect them to live? Except for the 2 firefish that I got about 6 weeks ago, my youngest fish are an hyppo tang and a sixline wrasse, I bought 2 years ago, shortly before Covid.