Long-lived fish

[morgan]

Hi, don't wish to be morbid but I recently bought a Common Pleco. They can live 20 - 25 years. I am 52........ If it is still alive when I am 72 I am going to state in my will that it must be cared for. Anybody else likely to be outlived by their fish? Just wondered.

 

[basia]

This thead made me smile It is a consideration for anyone with animals thought... My in-laws keep telling us we have to inherit their evil parrot because it will probably out live them.
As a newcomer I am pleased to have kept my fish alive for 3 months!

 

[Fish Buddy]

Ha! I never really thought about that But it could very well happen

 

[WILDER]

... My in-laws keep telling us we have to inherit their evil parrot because it will probably out live them.
Needed that laugh after a day like this.

 

[tttnjfttt]

Thats hilarious! The threat of inheriting a evil bird....

 

[Angry_Platy]

My father is 62 and his/my bird is 10. Shes a sulfur crested cockatoo who live to 80 years plus. Guess who inherits her when my parents die? You got it So shes got another 70 years....and I am 32......hmm.....

 

[sylvia]

I have thought about this actualy because I keep thinking that it's going to take me forever to get the osphronemus goramy I want... and then they have lived to over 60!!!

 

[bunjiweb]

I'm looking forward to the prospect of some of my plecs being around for another 15 years or more and some of my other catfish living to up to 30 years old easily.... I just hope i don't go insane and start talking to them like humans

Ben

 

[Tolak]

I have a few plecs that I got from my dad a couple of years back when he went into a nursing home for medical reasons. He got the plecs a few years before that from a neighbor who moved. This neighbor passed away a couple years after he moved. So I do own a few fish that have outlived their owner.

Tolak

 

[Synirr]

I sure hope my fish don't outlive me, most of them are bettas!

 

[Snailguy101]

Well my fish isn't outliving me but my betta is 3 years old but he doesn't look to good

 

[morgan]

Thanks for the replies, I knew it must apply to others too. Love the idea of the evil parrot!

 

[LifeBear]

Angry_Platy,
Sounds like that cockatoo could outlive you too and end up going to even another generation of owners.