longest living fish

[coachwah]

blue damsel - 5 + years
pork puffer, yellow tang, maroon clown - ~4 years

 

[lurch694u]

I have a tire track freshwater eel that is 15 yrs old I got hime when I was in 5th grade. He is still in my parents freshwater tank.

 

[killafins]

sammy...
i never really thought at all the improvements and progress we have made... it's kind of weird... i wonder what the future will be....
OH OH... as of now we can't keep dolphins in our swimming pools... maybe that'll change

 

[tony detroit]

Originally posted by The Claw
Sturgeon do. I'm not sure what the record is though.
TRUE! I live off lake erie somewhat and I've heard many stories of sturgeon living really long lives.

 

[ackermsb]

I have had a grow - a - frog (i ordered him and he came as a little tadpole in the mail) since I was 12. That was 14 years ago. I am not joking. It has been sitting above my toilet ever since. Maybe it is thriving b/c of the smell but it it is awfully strange. I am beginning to think it is not real and is something the government sent me with a camera inside. . But .... The really weird thing is that my girlfriend has one about the same age and I never met anyone before who had one.
WWEEIIRRDD.
Oh yea, my tang and clown fish are both over 2.5 yrs old but Im not quite sure how old they are

 

[terminus est]

There is a 6+ year old engineer goby at my LFS, thing looks just like a moray but with subtle differences.

 

[the claw]

I have had a grow - a - frog
A what?????
Thats not like one of those Gia pet things is it?

 

[steven the fish]

Cool how large is the engineer goby

 

[grendelprime]

the longest fish i ever owned was my yellow tang i had him for almost 8yrs until last yr when he died

 

[aarone]

Thats not like one of those Gia pet things is it?
I had one for a chameleon. You get the egg, or in the frogs case, the tadpole, and grow it up. Like keeping a baby...well sort of

 

[krowleey]

I had a pirahna that lived for 15 years. Thats way past what any of the books say they live for in captivity. I finally stuck him in the freezer.
can i ask why would you place a fish in the freezer? to kill it?

 

[grallster]

2 groupers:
a six-line I've had for 8 yrs.
a flag tail I've had for 7 yrs.

 

[daniel411]

Just remembered where I read about the supposedly multi-century old koi, the national geographic edition on the japanese imperial palace! The koi have always had a person who grew up to do nothing but take care of koi.... where can I find that job for sw?