I met a buddy who had a marine betta that was 15 years old.

I bought my jewel cichlid 3 years ago, at which point he was about 1 1/2'', now he's 3'', and obece( too much mysis ) got a blue johanni 2 years ago when he was 1'' now he's 2 1/2'' ( and yup lazy :wink: )

Trig (black blotch trigger) is 10 years old, he was 1" when I bought him...yep. He is around 7" now I think.

Spike (black back butterfly) is 8 years old, she was about 2" when I bought her, and is now about 6".

They are true survivors, and have lived through many of my mistakes over time.

My longest living fish is a pajama cardinal that I got about 2 1/2 years ago. It was about 1/2 inch when I got it. Now it is about 2 1/2 inches.

Very cool everyone thanks for the info, keep it comming :biggrin:

We have a juvi emperor angel that has gone from 1 1/2" to about 3" in four months. We also have four other fish (Naso tang, Clown tang, Queen angel, Blueface angel) in our tank that in the wild can grow up to about 24 inches. I'm thinking that if they all get that big in the next few years, I'm going to need a much bigger tank! Anyone have one of those types of fish that got really big over the years?

Great slideshow Laurie! Love your tank and little buddies :smile:
I see you make beer too, so do I. I'm not sure what's wrong with me, all my hobbies involve lifting heavy buckets of water, wine, beer, mead!:lol:

Thanks, although I do need to update the pic's, we've changed a few things since then. My boyfriend makes the wine, and he's the one who gets to do the heavy lifting :lol: