How old is your oldest coral?
 

I thought this had been done before?? I just tried searching though and couldn't come up with it.

Poll doesn't include anything non-coral like fish, anemones, clams, etc. This includes corals you no longer have!

I have a pink pocillipora damicornis that I got from Brad (Aquattro) and he mentioned that it was over 10 years old, I've had it for about 3-4 years (maybe more, I can't remember when I got it) and he had it several years before that.

Its at the bottom of this photo:

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...5/topdown2.jpg

Very cool Christy!! :)

I clicked to make the results public who voted for what, but it never works for me. Don't know why.

It worked, you just have to click on the number, and it says who voted what.:wink:

Ohhhh... *smacks forehead*

I voted 7-8yrs but it's wrong, I have mushrooms that go back 9-10yrs and toadstools from a mother colony that I got 9yrs ago.
My oldest hard coral (fox coral) is 8yrs :mrgreen:

My oldest is my bubble coral, 17 years this year and still growing.

I voted lower, but I guess I do have a mushroom colony that I tried to kill multiple times (even blow-torched the LR out of the tank, serious!) and it is pushing 9 years old.

Nothing kills Kenya Tree... My first coral and I still have bits of it everywhere!

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I voted 7-8 years even though I've only been in the hobby for about 6. :lol:
This is due to my purple, green & orange monti caps, which I've had since close to the start. I bought them as frags from a local reefer who I assume had them for at least a year before me, judging by the size of the mother colonies. They very well could be much older than I give them credit, but unless "Canadian Man" comes back to tell me how old they are, I'll never really know.

That was one of my very first SPS pieces.

I still have a pink birdsnest that I got from Shao (smokinreefer) about 7 years ago, I believe he had it a long time as well.

my toadstool is over 2 years. T'was the first coral i bought when i got in the hobby. my torch, which i bought at the same time, just died 2 mo ago.. but for no reason other than my CLOWNS just destroyed it when they found out they could host it.

I recently managed to kill a few of my oldest corals...but I still have pieces/colonies that came from my first tank over 10 years ago.

I've had my green carpet anemone almost 7 years now.

My oldest fish at the moment is my female Maroon clown who I've had for only 4 years. My previous best were a yellow tail damsel (13 years) and a convict damsel (12 years).

While I keep documentation on when fish were added, I've not been so careful documenting coral additions. I was surprised to find photos of existing corals dated 1998. While you might think these corals would be huge, they spent a long time in a very small tank and only small fragments of these were transferred to the new tank.

That's awesome guys!! :)

Although now gone from an infection, my bubble coral was around 12yrs. old. My percs are around 6 yrs. old now.