Longest Resident

[Dwarfs]

I have a 7 year old pleco in one of my 55g's, a peckoltia of some sort

 

[BettaMomma]

I had two lovely buenos aires tetras for 7+ years - while I was in college and for years after. I rarely ever cleaned their tank, but they somehow managed to survive everything. I killed them when I decided it would be a good idea to get them a new tank and just dumped them in. They did okay for a few weeks, but "mysteriously" died one day.

I had NO idea about cycling.
Poor little fellas.


Makes me wonder how many more years they'd have been around if I had known....

 

[jasmine]

A glowlight tetra, which has been in the tank almost 4 years

 

[One_Trick_Pony]

7 guppie i had since jan when i started my first tank!

 

[MegTheFish]

My 3 year old danios (2 of them)...actually, they might be 4 now. They sure are tuff! Lived in a 5 1/2 gallon untill this December. The first year or so I did a total clean out on the tank every 3 months. Stupid lfs owner knows nothing...
Now they are both living in a 50 gallon goldfish tank with 7 other danios.

 

[troutfly]

I had a set of matched Jack Dempsey's for 3+ years when the female decided to attack the heater causing it to malfunction "boiling" Her, him and about 200 fry that were 3/4" long.

 

[nc_nutcase]

I bought Sam, my Betta, 3 years and 4 months ago at a Walmart. He looks old in the face but still acts as lively and healthy as ever.

(I feel really weird saying publicly that my fish looks old in the face... )

 

[Angry_Platy]

My bnose catfish male, Dyson is the oldest resident of my tank. The others in the 30gal are relatively new (due to a disaster I had with the tank in January)....I have had Dyson since December 2003.

Other long surviving fish are my cichlids which I have had since March 2004. They have never been sick with anything. No ich, no finrot, no suicides, no deaths AT ALL.

 

[50000_tears]

my betta Gus ..im thinking 5 years i got him old ..mabye six...someone at walmart said he was 2 or 3 years old..he had to die though if he was alive i know hed be 6 or 7 ..i pamper mine most of them live for 1-2 at the least i only put them in one gallon tanks and they are always happy,i only had 2 die at 6 months or less( one week wonder and AmyI)

 

[squeeker]

I have a 9-year-old common goldfish. He still lives at my parent's house.

 

[MsDad]

I have a male Kribensis that I got as an adult from a lfs about 6 years ago. He's lived through everything, including a 4-month period while our house was being built that he was basically completely neglected (I actually was quite upset - I thought everything in the tank had died in the midst of all the chaos). He's survived 4 mates (on his 5th now) and has many offspring to carry on those "durable" genes. One of his mates was an albino - they produced all albino offspring, which surprised me - some of the most breathtakingly gorgeous Kribs I have ever seen. I kept one male and tried to breed him, but he killed all his potential mates and ultimately died without ever breeding. At any rate, Dad is still going strong, making too many babies for me to keep. Anybody want some Kribs...??

 

[Jen]

Probably my CAE. I think he was 3 when he died.

 

[Ben]

my male bolvian ram is nearing 4 years old and still going strong, i say this because 3-4 years old is the average life span of a Bolivian Ram,
my keyhole pair ive had for 5 years,(well,my uncle had a breeding pair of keyholes,and saved me two of the fry for when i got a fish tank 2 years after they were born)
and the rest of the fish now i've had since the begining of last year

DD

 

[Fishist]

Believe it or not, my Mum still has my goldfish that I got in 1983!

 

[balasgouramisandlemontetras]

My balas. they have been there the whole life of my tank, I will have to get rid of them soon, so then it will be my Bristlenose female then my sword.
My newest fish; 2 months in my tank are my GSMs