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I have had my Foxface Rabbit for almost 5 years now.
I got ya beat man, I had a freshwater fish for about 11 years, one morning on the ground for about the 20th time and did not come back to life. However he meant so much to me that i put him in a jar with rubbing alchohol and that was about 12 years ago. so he has been around for about 23 years or so.
His name is George!
His name is George!
Actually wasn't my chiller, but it was heat related. My controller malfunctioned and the temp monitor became a static 20F. So my heater kept going and my chiller never kicked on. My temp rose to 104F by the time I got home. All is well now, but that was a terrible week. Thanks for the kind thoughts.
It's not a salty but a freshy, and he's no longer in my care, but.... +20 year old lungfish. He's lived amongst my friends and I for well over a decade, prior to that, he lived for a decade with a family. The little girl used to pick him up and hold him, like he was a puppy 8O Guess he was nicer way back then. He'll crush you finger now :lol: FWIW, he wasn't exactly a baby when the family bought him either!
i had a texas cichlid once, for about 3 years. i was young then, and the fish was about a foot long when i gave him away.
i still can't believe it, but i actually had a foot long TC, along with a few other huge fish in a 29 gallon old slate bottomed chrome trimmed tank!
sad but true.
i used to grab 3 inch crayfish from the local creek, and throw them in the tank, and he would eat them whole. chew them for about a minute, and spit out clean empty shells. he was like a freaken billy goat!
i still can't believe it, but i actually had a foot long TC, along with a few other huge fish in a 29 gallon old slate bottomed chrome trimmed tank!
sad but true.
i used to grab 3 inch crayfish from the local creek, and throw them in the tank, and he would eat them whole. chew them for about a minute, and spit out clean empty shells. he was like a freaken billy goat!
- Location
- Dundee, IL
I have an 11-year-old clownfish.
Gary
Gary
I've had a plecostomas for 8 or 10 years, still going strong, now in a pond. A comet (bought as a feeder fish); had for 7 years. Banjo catfish; had 6 years until my wife killed it. Had a black drum grow from 2" to 14" in about a year--what a polluter. I let him go locally, now I can't eat any black drum I catch lest he be my former pet! :roll:
I had a tomato clown that lived to be about 17.
My sailfin is about 8 years in captivity, I hate saying how "old" he is because I don't know how old he was when caught!
Come to think of it, that means the LTA is about that old too, they were bought at similar time frames.
Does anyone keep any kind of log of when they get animals? I tend to forget when I got something.
Oh, I recently took a Hippo tang that I got in 2000 (Right after Y2K so I always remember how old he is) as a little tiny fish back to the fish store and he lives in their display tank. He looks great and ate all the macro algae in there. It's kinda neat to visit him, and I am glad he is gone as he was a trouble maker.
My sailfin is about 8 years in captivity, I hate saying how "old" he is because I don't know how old he was when caught!
Come to think of it, that means the LTA is about that old too, they were bought at similar time frames.
Does anyone keep any kind of log of when they get animals? I tend to forget when I got something.
Oh, I recently took a Hippo tang that I got in 2000 (Right after Y2K so I always remember how old he is) as a little tiny fish back to the fish store and he lives in their display tank. He looks great and ate all the macro algae in there. It's kinda neat to visit him, and I am glad he is gone as he was a trouble maker.
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