Your oldest fish! Let's see them!

[Boops]

My yellow tang an my frenatus clown fish couple are all three over 20 year. My first fishes as I set up my tank 1997 and still very active and enjoying life.

 

[BigJohnny]

A quick cell phone pic of my Copperband, who is now in a holding tank waiting on me to finish my build. I put it in my 140 in 2007, so about 11 years old. The tang in the picture is only a pup at 4 years old.

What do you feed him/how often? I have a copperband and would love for it to live 10-20 years, only about 1 now.

 

[RtomKinMad]

Our first fish were yellow tang and hippo tang both 2”. 4yrs with us! Moved from 75 gal to 300 gal 6months ago! Both happy
One year ago we brought home 10+ year old Sohal and Koran angel that our LFS sold and were in a 75gal and brought back 10yrs later. We brought them home to 180gal. We also rescued a 10yr old porcupine puffer also a return. All do well together and added some extra friends for them. Call this our geriatric tank!

 

[RtomKinMad]

I can’t wait to have our fish 20yrs! Thanks for sharing everyone! Great pictures. So much fun. I love coming home from a stressful day at work in the ICU and seeing all our babies and reading about all of yours and learning from all of you. Thanks everyone.

 

[hllywd]

I’ve had my tomato clown pair since about 2005. I got them as babes and had them in a nano on my desk for about a year, then in a 30 long which I had previous to my first “big tank”, a 120. They survived a GFCI outage when I went to the NASCAR race in Bristol when it snowed a bunch, 2006, where we lost everything else, corals and all that was in the tank.
The video is a 57 Deep Blue I had until recently as a holding tank upgrading from a 210 to a complete reboot new 200DD. I recently moved them in and they’re already spawning in the new system. Happy old timers I guess!

 

[Fin]

What do you feed him/how often? I have a copperband and would love for it to live 10-20 years, only about 1 now.

Mostly mysis, but he will eat most any frozen food. Won't even look at pellets, even after all this time. I soak their food overnight in Selcon and marine vitamins. He eats like a pig and is not timid at feeding time.

 

[Cary Meredith]

I would have to say my little yellow watchman goby, got him when he was about an inch long, now he's over 3 inches.

 

[S&SReef]

My clownfish Sampson 10 years

 

[mfinn]

This isn't the best picture. Tough to judge just how big the female Gold Stripe Maroon really is.
I got 2 perfect looking GSM clowns 20 years ago. The female has completely lost the gold color in her stripes and almost completely lost the strips.

 

[Dirk Griffin]

A couple of days ago, lost my perc I bought in 1992. Still 1 1/2" long, pretty much the same size the entire time

 

[DSC reef]

Here's our 8ish year old purple tang

 

[jda]

I have a purple tang that I got before my 14 year old daughter was born. It looks like the one above where most of the spots on the body have faded.

I had a melarnus wrasse that was the same age, but he literally just laid down and died about a month ago... just on the front glass. I assume it was old age. My kids had a funeral and they don't even care about the tank.

 

[ca1ore]

My yellow tang is 14. Five with me, four with a friend and now another five with me. Good body weight but he has topped out at about 6 inches. PJ Cardinals I’ve also had for five years, and the guy I got them from claimed they were 3 years with him. They do look a little worse for wear at this point.

 

[RtomKinMad]

Though they have only been ours a short time in comparison, Luna (Sohal) and Zeus (Koran) are both well over a decade old. Both are over 10 inches and are rescued from owners with too small of tanks

 

[Jesterrace]

Unfortunately my Diamond Watchman Goby died (I think the tank transfer and addition and rearrangement of rock were finally just too much for him). The torch has been passed to my Juvie Melanurus who will have been with me a year in July. Did I mention he eats like a pig: