Your oldest fish! Let's see them!

[hybridazn]

Your oldest fish, how old and what kind of fish. Oh, and share some pics :)

I'll start...


My boy blue, my powder blue tang came in from blue zoo aquatics like this..

Fast forward 12 years and here he is now...

I love this guy. My all time favorite fish.

 

[Crabs McJones]

Wow! Night and day difference! Beautiful fish :) I can't really post anything on oldest fish as mine are all still fairly young (had a brook outbreak, lost all fish and had to start over) but my oldest would be my clown pair :)

 

[Triggreef]

Well that took some thought. My maroon clown, also from some ebay store actually. About 4 inches now his larger mate passed some time ago. I bought them early 2012 so 6 years probably just passed the anniversary.

 

[hybridazn]

Wow! Night and day difference! Beautiful fish :) I can't really post anything on oldest fish as mine are all still fairly young (had a brook outbreak, lost all fish and had to start over) but my oldest would be my clown pair :)

Well that took some thought. My maroon clown, also from some ebay store actually. About 4 inches now his larger mate passed some time ago. I bought them early 2012 so 6 years probably just passed the anniversary.

Awesome! Let's see what else ppl have out there! I think @Paul B will have me beat with older fish haha

 

[lion king]

I know it's not really old; but he's a fu manchu, and he's 6.

 

[4FordFamily]

Aww man all of my veteran fish died last year in the power incident :(

Very cool fish, guys! Keep sharing!

 

[Fish4udog]

Heres my 2 oldest residents moved in ,in 2008

 

[ReefQueen]

Harold is the oldest, since he was a rescue I can't be sure of his true age, but he is at least 8 years old.

the one I've had the longest is my female clown

she was the male of the pair until the female was lost in a rock slide, I've had her over 5 years. If I still had my original clowns they would be 8 or 9 now. Although I have no idea how old your sailfin is

she could very well be the oldest, but she is for sure the fattest lol. I love your pbt, every time I see your avatar it makes me want one! He has come a long way in 12 years, so have your photography skills hahaha;)

 

[saltyhog]

I re-homed all of my fish except my CBB and Potter's wrasse when I moved in Sept 2016 so my oldest is my Potter's which I've had almost 5 years.

 

[hybridazn]

Harold is the oldest, since he was a rescue I can't be sure of his true age, but he is at least 8 years old.

the one I've had the longest is my female clown

she was the male of the pair until the female was lost in a rock slide, I've had her over 5 years. If I still had my original clowns they would be 8 or 9 now. Although I have no idea how old your sailfin is

she could very well be the oldest, but she is for sure the fattest lol. I love your pbt, every time I see your avatar it makes me want one! He has come a long way in 12 years, so have your photography skills hahaha;)

Hahaha yes they have, but I think that first pic was taken by my wife on her at the time cell phone. Which was a Motorola juke, yes ppl this was before smartphones lol

 

[Jesterrace]

I have only been in the hobby for just over a year. My Diamond Watchman Goby was my first fish and I still have him.

I don't have a pic of him, but here he is in a video after getting scared by a Flame Angel that I got rid of:

 

[ReefQueen]

Hahaha yes they have, but I think that first pic was taken by my wife on her at the time cell phone. Which was a Motorola juke, yes ppl this was before smartphones lol

Wait, isn't that the same phone Jaime has? hahaha. Actually that is a pretty impressive pic for a 12 year old cell. I had a razr at that time and my pics definitely didn't look that good.

 

[MrsBugmaster]

My oldest fish is 12 years old, Mitratus Butterfly. Although I have had it for only 9 months. Does that count? I acquired it from LFS display tank. They get a new set up for their display and sold everything from old one.

Next would be my Black snowflake clown with a black clown mate, starry blenny,
Orange Stripe Prawn Goby (Amblyeleotris randalli) with pistol shrimp,
Tangaroa Goby (Ctenogobiops tangaroai) (shares burrow with Orange Stripe goby and pistol shrimp)
All are 5 years old in the same tank I set up 5 years ago. Sorry don't have pictures of them.

 

[Dragon52]

My Chevron Tang is the oldest at 3

 

[CPL376]

The only way to be sure is cut them in half and count the rings. But my Fiji devil is the original fish that I started my tank with a little over 9 years ago

 

[CuseReefer84]

My juvenile cleaners erase. My tank is only 2 months old so my fish are young too.

 

[BigJim]

My Mystery Wrasse is a little over 6 years old now. He has always been a model citizen with other wrasses despite their reputation. His jaw has been messed up for a few years after he got spooked and jumped into the lid of my old RSM 250.

mystery wrasse 7 020717 - Copy by Big Jim, on Flickr

 

[Deinonych]

My 5+ year old spawning A. ocellaris pair with egg mass (i.e. wrasse snacks) below. :)

 

[MIKE NY]

I currently have a pair of Clowns that are over 20 years old and after them was my PBT which lived for 17 years....

 

[Daniel@R2R]

My clowns have been through 3 different setups. I got the female for the nano in 90 build back in 2013.