Pair of Fireclowns, still spawning about 30 and 25 or so years old. These were the longest I kept any fish. The next one was a cusk eel for 18 years and mandarin, hippo tang , watchman gobies and a few others for about 10 years.
10 year old watchmans. No longer with me. The female became egg bound.
I don't remember what happened to the male.
This copperband also lived about 10 years after he stopped drinking.
It seems like 10 years is the time most of my fish croak. I am not sure why.
I don't remember getting this urchin so he may be older than 10.
Here he is much smaller in 2010. I think this is the same animal but I could be wrong.
These baby octopus hatched out in my tank but only lived a few days.
This crab I collected and put him back in the sea after a year as he got to big.
I hate to say it but I also think these hermit crabs lived about 10 years. The female is the one with the sexy above the knee shell and blue eye shadow.
They died a week apart, probably from a broken heart.
The tank is a 125 gallon.
I try to buy all my creatures as small as possible so most of them were babies and I think most of them died of old age. The copperband died of a neurological problem where he couldn't see where his food was so he kept missing it.
The 18 year old brutlyd or cusk eel I killed in an accident along with the 10 year old mandarin.
I also killed a 5 year old Moorish Idol in a bleach accident.
