Oldest fish?

[Demjor19]

How long have you had your oldest fish and what type of fish is it?

My current oldest is a 4 year old Florida Gar.

[Northernguy]

I had an Oscar for ten yrs but gave him away before I dismantled everything for a long move.

[MCHRKiller]

My oldest are probably my Scats, although they are living at the LFS I manage...I still consider them mine. They are around 11 years old :)

[Red]

I have this shark/minnow thing that no one can ID for me.. It is about 5-6 years old...

[Poofaye C.]

I had an Oscar for ten yrs but gave him away before I dismantled everything for a long move.
Gave up a ten year old Oscar, huh? How long a move was it, if I may ask?

My two oldest fish were bought on the road so to speak. Silver Tip cat-shark from believe it or not Wally-World (wal-mart) of all places. Also a Spotted Rafael cat from Pets Mart. The cat shark I obtained in Detroit the winter of 02'. The Spotted cat I purchased in Kansas City in early spring of 03'. They traveled with me for the next three years to every city I had to work in. Two of those years were in a 9 gal. bowfront, crazy I know! Had some losses along the way.

Here's the really stupid part, ready for this, found out the hard way how quickly the Silver Tip had grown in two years and how he was the reason why all my other fish were slowly disapearing. So my girlfriend and I (who was traveling with me at the time), went to Pets Mart to pick up some fish food, and walked out with a 27 gal. Yes we knew we would have to upgrade in tank size for this fish soon, but not while still traveling and living out of motels!

If you're older than 18 pm me and I'll cautiously tell you why we really bought the larger tank while traveling. We should have just giv'in up the little guy. I think the Spotted would have been just fine, and I would have been able to keep a few tetras or so. We did this for a whole year. That was three cities.

[Crispy]

I've had my pleco 10 years, and I'm sure he was a few years old when I got him. He's about 16 inches.

[angelcakes]

mines a synodontis nigrita,ive had him about 5-6 years and he was mature before i brought him,

[Demjor19]

Thanks for sharing evryone!

On a side not...My oldest Florida Gar was roughly 2 years old when I aquired him, so he's about 6 years old now.

[smaug]

I have 2 tiger barbs,4 black skirts,2 red eyes and 4 0r 5 serpae tetra all of which are 5 years old or older.

[Naturestee]

I've only been keeping fish for a few years, but my oldest was a white skirt tetra that I inherited with a tank. It lived through 6 months of no food or water changes with a few other fish before I got it, and lived oh... 4.5 years with me? It had to have been in the previous home for at least a year, probably a good bit longer. It died with all my other tetras and cories in a bad ich infestation this summer. Pretty amazing though, especially since it was one of those horrid dyed fish and it still had it's pink color.

Edit: Almost forgot the common pleco! I inherited him with my parents' 10 gallon tank where he had lived for 11 years, long past the goldfish dying out. Poor guy had to struggle to turn around. I found a store that had big tanks for full grown discus, oscars, etc. and they took him for me.

[cocoa_pleco]

years ago i had some for a long time, but currently my oldest is my black shark that ive had for 2 years