Does anybody here actually ever keep a fish for life?

[Gr8KarmaSF]

Does anybody here actually ever keep a fish for life? I am only talking about an entire lifetime where the fish dies from old age, NOT fish that have been pre-maturely killed for whatever reason

Ive really tried and tried, but because of upgrades and fish fights I end up giving or selling fish before they grow old and die.

Thou I currently have one fish and an FRT that I think will be with me FOREVER until death so there is still hope for me!

 

[Wolf3101]

I came close with a couple of them. I had a Midus female for 12 years and a Black Piranna for 15. I would still have him but he was lost to a filter system failure during a storm. I was in the process of setting up a new tank to move him from AZ to Cali at the time.

 

[Derpeder]

There needs to be a I've only been in the hobby for a short time (like under 3 years or something) option.

Of course if any fish I've had has a life span of less then three years then I'd of had the chance......

But I guess I don't have any of the fish I originally started with so my answer would be no anyway.

Okay I choose I have one I plan on keeping.

 

[Red Devil]

i have kept many fish a very long time but so far the only one that i definitly knew died from old age was my red tail shark.. I got him when he was a little more then an inch.. he actually was getting grayish color in the face as he got to be 7 years old .. and he slowed down... he lived with the pacu his whole life.. right underneath them... he lived for almost 8 years...

 

[Taboojen]

I think the life span of a betta is up to 2-3 years right? If that is the case, I had one for 3 years when I was a kid. It was happy and then one day it just died.

But else - yeah. i dont think i have done so either recently. Maybe its the fact that i make money now. When i was a kid - no $$$ = no new fish. So just had to stick with whether i had.

 

[softturtle]

I kept a lot of community fish for about 5 years... then my last rosy barb died and I quite keeping fish for a while. I have fish now that I will have for their whole life or the rest of mine... which ever happens to last longer.

 

[santoury]

Hey guys
NICE THREAD!

I've had a betta die of old age, and I have had an Oscar die of old age. I've had a Corynopoma riisei die of old age. Same for a striped Raphael.

So, yeah, there have been a couple - but this time around, I'm sure some of my current ones will be with me until their old age deaths - a few of my lungfish, my jellybeans, midas, leporinus, etc.

 

[Nighthawk]

I've kept several fish for a lifetime. I currently have three clown loaches that are nine years old and a twelve year old common pl*co.

 

[Taboojen]

I've kept several fish for a lifetime. I currently have three clown loaches that are nine years old and a twelve year old common pl*co.

That's awesome! It is great to hear. Those clown loaches must be huge.

 

[ewurm]

I plan on keeping my Monster Loaches, my Oscar, LMB, and Thinbar Dat until death for sure.