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.