Post by goldenpuon on Jun 24, 2012 12:53:58 GMT -5
This is not an issue of concern or a problem of any kind. However, I would like to share a bit about a guppy I have who is currently between 3.25 and 3.75 years old. I believe he was born in late 2008, and if not early 2009.
I was still raising many young guppies at the time. Despite removing the male guppies from the females months prior, I was still getting babies. I had a number of older fry (3 weeks or more) in a couple separate tanks and plastic bins. I found a single young guppy less than a week old in with the adult females, the rest I presumed were eaten. It was too small to be in with the older fry, so it got its own 4 gallon plastic container with a filter. It was raised alone and I sold most of the older guppies, culled a few that were small or deformed, and ended up with only a couple.
I kept the little guppy I had found (a male) separate from other fish for his first several months. When he was large enough, I put him in with his brother/uncle/relative that was 6+ months older (Tyler), a male named Malowi, and a guppy I never named in a 5 1/2 gallon tank. (If memory serves, those were the only other fish in with him at the time).
He lived in there for a year plus before one of the males (presumably of old age) died overnight. (This seems to be how many of my guppies have passed away of old age). Later, Tyler, (who was named after the user on here, Murdock's dog) went missing. For a week, I couldn't find him and thought he had somehow jumped out. Eventually I saw the other two fish nibbling at something, ribs and a skull. (Sorry If I digusted anyone ith that:( )It turns out poor Tyler had died and was... cannablized by French Fry and Malowi. O.O Tyler died when he was almost 3 years old if I remember correctly.
Sometime in late 2010 or early 2011, Malowi died overnight of what was likely old age. I bought him when he was full size and had him about 2 years before he passed. I actually watched him go from eating in the afternoon to clamping his fins at night... to lying on the bottom at midnight- not just sleeping. He was gone within the next day. I expected French Fry (now two years old) to pass away by Fall. Fall came and went and the fish lived on. French Fry continued to live alone in the 5 1/2 gallon.
French Fry is still alive and does not look his age. He has the coloration of Tyler and some other deceased relatives such as Irene Fish, Rena, and Renee, and a male who I never named or forgot the name of. French Fry is pretty small compared to his other relatives (just a little more than in inch including fins) and looks like he could easily be a year old based on how he looks/acts. He is hyper and is not showing his age at all. I recently jokingly gave him the nickname, "the guppy that won't die" (it is awesome he is still living though IMO). So, I guess this is French Fry's biography... so far.
I hope everyone enjoyed reading this. Anyway, I am off to feed French Fry and my other fish now. ;D
P.S: I will have had my goldfish Puon in 7 years as of July and Oranda, Aztec. and Foneme 7 years as of September 1st (or 3rd?). I think these guys also qualify as remarkably long-lived.
Renee
I was still raising many young guppies at the time. Despite removing the male guppies from the females months prior, I was still getting babies. I had a number of older fry (3 weeks or more) in a couple separate tanks and plastic bins. I found a single young guppy less than a week old in with the adult females, the rest I presumed were eaten. It was too small to be in with the older fry, so it got its own 4 gallon plastic container with a filter. It was raised alone and I sold most of the older guppies, culled a few that were small or deformed, and ended up with only a couple.
I kept the little guppy I had found (a male) separate from other fish for his first several months. When he was large enough, I put him in with his brother/uncle/relative that was 6+ months older (Tyler), a male named Malowi, and a guppy I never named in a 5 1/2 gallon tank. (If memory serves, those were the only other fish in with him at the time).
He lived in there for a year plus before one of the males (presumably of old age) died overnight. (This seems to be how many of my guppies have passed away of old age). Later, Tyler, (who was named after the user on here, Murdock's dog) went missing. For a week, I couldn't find him and thought he had somehow jumped out. Eventually I saw the other two fish nibbling at something, ribs and a skull. (Sorry If I digusted anyone ith that:( )It turns out poor Tyler had died and was... cannablized by French Fry and Malowi. O.O Tyler died when he was almost 3 years old if I remember correctly.
Sometime in late 2010 or early 2011, Malowi died overnight of what was likely old age. I bought him when he was full size and had him about 2 years before he passed. I actually watched him go from eating in the afternoon to clamping his fins at night... to lying on the bottom at midnight- not just sleeping. He was gone within the next day. I expected French Fry (now two years old) to pass away by Fall. Fall came and went and the fish lived on. French Fry continued to live alone in the 5 1/2 gallon.
French Fry is still alive and does not look his age. He has the coloration of Tyler and some other deceased relatives such as Irene Fish, Rena, and Renee, and a male who I never named or forgot the name of. French Fry is pretty small compared to his other relatives (just a little more than in inch including fins) and looks like he could easily be a year old based on how he looks/acts. He is hyper and is not showing his age at all. I recently jokingly gave him the nickname, "the guppy that won't die" (it is awesome he is still living though IMO). So, I guess this is French Fry's biography... so far.
I hope everyone enjoyed reading this.
Anyway, I am off to feed French Fry and my other fish now. ;DP.S: I will have had my goldfish Puon in 7 years as of July and Oranda, Aztec. and Foneme 7 years as of September 1st (or 3rd?). I think these guys also qualify as remarkably long-lived.
Renee
). He is certainly still living up to his reputation as long-lived. He is still swimming around in that 5 1/2 gallon. 
