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Old 12/22/2007, 03:41 AM
danorth danorth is offline
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Current fish you've had over 2 years?

I have 2, a 12" coris and a yellow tail damsel. My clown trigger will be 2 years in my care in May.

Anyone else? I picked 2 years since I don't have any 3 year fish....
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Old 12/22/2007, 03:52 AM
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I have a Gold Striped Maroon that will be 4years old come october......the only sw fish i have left from when the old LFS i worked at closed down...it will be a sad day when he dies!!!
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Old 12/22/2007, 03:53 AM
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I have a domino damsel, the poor guy has cycle 3 tanks, and he survived the time I used the wrong king of sylicon to make my sump
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Old 12/22/2007, 08:02 AM
LisaD LisaD is offline
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green wolf eel blenny
Hawaiian leaf fish
orchid dottyback
bicolor blenny
black sailfin blenny
zebra moray eel
wartskin angler
seahorses

non-fish - scarlet reef hermits, serpent star, mantis shrimp, snails

If I had not had a tank crash due to disease back in 2005, where I lost fish I had already had for 3-7 years, I think I still would have:

emperor angel
mimic tang
harlequin tusk
tomato clownfish
royal gramma

I have lost some fish to surfing, some to other fish eating them, some within the first month (probably not healthy to start). But the biggest cause of fish loss, for me, has been disease, which is why no matter how much of a pain it is, QT and having good meds on hand is really important.
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Old 12/22/2007, 08:16 AM
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I've had my spotfin butterfly since Aug of 1999. I bought a royal gramma the next year and still have it too.
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Old 12/22/2007, 09:40 AM
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False Perc since '99. Bought her tank-raised, pretty sure that's why she survived for so long.
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Old 12/22/2007, 01:46 PM
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Purple Tang
Banana moray

Longest freshwater fish
Albino sailfin pleco- 7 years and counting
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Old 12/22/2007, 03:26 PM
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I have had a bunch of fish more than 2 years but my Green Spotted Puffer is now almost 5.
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Old 12/22/2007, 04:06 PM
Jeremy Blaze Jeremy Blaze is offline
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Lets see,

Durgeon trigger 9 years old
Clown Trigger 9 years old
Star and Stripes Puffer 8 years old

Fish over 3 years old,

Achilles tang
Dusimmer tang
Purple tang
mimic tang
Copperband butterfly
1 male manderin 2 females
3 yellow tail damsels
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Old 12/22/2007, 04:09 PM
Charger21_SD Charger21_SD is offline
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Had:
Purple Tang
Yellow Tang
Percula Clownfish
Dwarf Octopus
Blue Hippo Tang
Have:
Foxface
Porcupine Puffer
Sailfin Tang
Coral Beauty Angelfish
Emperor Angelfish
2xChromises
2xClarkii Clownfish
Lawnmower Blenny
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Old 12/22/2007, 05:22 PM
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Red-coris wrasse, whitemouth moray. Both almost 3 years.
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Old 12/22/2007, 05:26 PM
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My oldest guys:
a pretty big, fat yellow watchman
a psycho mandy female
a single bluegreen chromis
all about 2 years.
Coming up on 2---my highfin gobies.
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Old 12/22/2007, 11:12 PM
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I have a vlamingi tang and a magnificent foxface that are almost three years

almost lost the vlaminigi a month ago was at my computer and my dog kept going on the side of my aquarium and back and forth so I decided to take a look and it was on the floor thought it was dead for sure drop it back in the tank sank like a rock to the bottom but slowly saw the gills start to move and took about three weeks to make a full recovery and start eating again.
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Old 12/23/2007, 12:30 AM
GoingPostal GoingPostal is offline
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Wild caught maroon clown will be three years in my care in Feb. 2008 , first fish I ever bought so she's tough and a huge PITA.
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Old 12/23/2007, 01:56 AM
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Undulated Trigger 4 plus years

After watching my Trigger digest the tank I had due to some bad advice, and worse research... I have had her over four years.

She has made it through three tanks... 45 - 75 - 125

And two cracked heaters, before the overflow was installed in the 75.
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Old 12/23/2007, 02:00 AM
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Recently lost my 8 year old flame angel, my 3 year old goldflake and my 2 year old solar wrasse. Excepyt for my 3 year old butterfly, all the rest are newcomers.
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Old 12/23/2007, 07:46 AM
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Yellow tang 7 years
Pair of 3 stripe damsels 3 years

About a year ago I sold off my reef tank and that had a 7 year old ocellaris clown in it.
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Old 12/23/2007, 06:11 PM
danorth danorth is offline
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Quote:
Originally posted by Jeremy Blaze
Lets see,

Durgeon trigger 9 years old
Clown Trigger 9 years old
Star and Stripes Puffer 8 years old

Fish over 3 years old,

Achilles tang
Dusimmer tang
Purple tang
mimic tang
Copperband butterfly
1 male manderin 2 females
3 yellow tail damsels
Any pics or stats on the clown and durgeon trigs?
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Old 12/23/2007, 06:16 PM
FishyMel FishyMel is offline
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Maybe those are the triggers going in the 1100 that's in the works
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Old 12/23/2007, 09:37 PM
danfrith danfrith is offline
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I've had a female Bluestripe pipefish 2 1/2 years this january. Still going strong.
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Old 12/23/2007, 10:45 PM
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purple tang for 7 years now still going strong. Queen angel for 2 years, both doing well.
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Old 12/24/2007, 02:29 AM
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Emperor Angel going on 3 years in March
Hippo tang (3 yrs)
Blueface Angel (2 yrs)
Niger Trigger (2 yrs)
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Old 12/24/2007, 02:50 PM
TitoTee TitoTee is offline
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Quote:
Originally posted by Charger21_SD
Had:
Purple Tang
Yellow Tang
Percula Clownfish
Dwarf Octopus
Blue Hippo Tang
Have:
Foxface
Porcupine Puffer
Sailfin Tang
Coral Beauty Angelfish
Emperor Angelfish
2xChromises
2xClarkii Clownfish
Lawnmower Blenny
Hobby Experience: 1 Year

But you've had all of these fish for at least two years?
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Old 12/24/2007, 03:14 PM
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My female GBM Clown has been in my system since late 03' and my zebra moray has been in since early 04'.

Rafael13 has a yellow tang of mine that I got back in 03' with the clown and another local has my BF Angel that I bought in 04'.

Jim
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Old 12/24/2007, 03:32 PM
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Purple tang
Dwarf eel
Radiant wrasse

The harlequin tusk and miliaris eel are creeping up on 2 years, though.
 


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