Senior Citizen Fishes

mike31154 · #1 09-19-2011, 11:44 PM

About 4 & a half years for mine and female Maroon (purchased as a juvenile) has been in there since shortly after set up. Blue Devil Damsel added at the same time died about a year ago. One of my Mandarin Dragonets has also been in there since it was a juvenile 4 years ago. Yellow Tang & Singapore came with a used 65 I purchased 3 years ago, no idea of age while with original owner. More recent additions are another juvenile Mandarin & Yellowtail Damselfish.

Don't really consider any of them senior citizens, but with a little luck, who knows. Female Maroon has had a partner for 3 years now & they're spawning away fairly consistently.

Raven34 · #2 09-20-2011, 05:12 AM

9 year old scopas tang. Lived through all my newby mistakes wipout cases of both ick and velvet. Not great to look at but she is an old friend to say the least.

kien · #3 09-20-2011, 05:21 AM

Oldest I have are a Blue Tang and Ocellaris Clown pair. 6 years in captivity. Three with me three with previous handlers. Clowns get jiggy with it at least once a year.

RuGlu6 · #4 09-20-2011, 07:39 AM

I have seen a 17 (!) years old yellow tang. was not mine though. This was few years back i wonder if it still alive. Fish was very happy in 300 gal tank back then.
i don't know if YT can live that long but i was told it was that old.

Nabey · #5 09-20-2011, 03:57 PM

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Originally Posted by RuGlu6

I have seen a 17 (!) years old yellow tang. was not mine though. This was few years back i wonder if it still alive. Fish was very happy in 300 gal tank back then.
i don't know if YT can live that long but i was told it was that old.

I have also seen a 17 year old yellow tang a few months ago. Pretty sure its the same one. Its really hard to believe it's actually 17 years old!

Delphinus · #6 09-20-2011, 04:15 PM

I remember a study a few years back that basically said they believe the natural lifespans of most tang species to be around 20 to 40 years.. So, 17 is not a bad start!

Lance · #7 09-20-2011, 04:48 PM

Wow! Some pretty old fishies there guys. Mine are still babies.

Although the PJ Cardinal, Coral Beauty and Yellow Watchman were full grown when I bought them, so I'm figuring they are about six.
Tony, I remember Doug talking about his Clowns once a few years back and they were quite old then. Do you remember?