Dmorty217
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I was thinking the same thing... that's parrot lifespans we are talking
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I was thinking the same thing... that's parrot lifespans we are talking
ThRoewer
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There was a study done on C. loricula, C. bicolor and P. sextriatus. Loricula was found to get 8 years old, bicolor 18 and the oldest sextriatus they fond was 60. P. chrysurus is in the same size class as P. sextriatus, so they likely get as old.
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ThRoewer
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It was actually a thesis: Age-based demography and reproductive ontogeny of angelfishes belonging to the family Pomacanthidae
humaguy
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The sixbar angelfish, Pomacanthus sexstriatus, is one of the lesser known species of large angelfish although it is a very common species where it is exported from the Philippines. What the sixbar angelfish might lack in ostentatious coloration it makes up with undemanding care requirements, and a tenacity for life as exemplified by the record breaking 40 year old specimen living at the Nancy Aquarium in France.
Well known for long-lived angelfish and butterflyfish species, the Nancy Aquarium first received this sixbar angelfish December 18, 1971 at which time it was only 14cm, or about 5.5 inches long. Over the last four decades the Nancy Aquarium's sixbar angelfish has grown to a size of 30cm (15 inches) and it currently resides in a 10,000 liter (1600 gallon) aquarium stocked primarily as a display of large and old reef fish.
Although sixbar angelfish can grow to be 18 inches long, we assume this guy is done growing. If this Pomacanthus sexstriatus has lived in captivity for over 41 years and it was already a medium size when collected from the wild, this particular fish is probably 45 years old, maybe more. For comparison that means this sixbar angelfish is more than a decade older than this author!
Well known for long-lived angelfish and butterflyfish species, the Nancy Aquarium first received this sixbar angelfish December 18, 1971 at which time it was only 14cm, or about 5.5 inches long. Over the last four decades the Nancy Aquarium's sixbar angelfish has grown to a size of 30cm (15 inches) and it currently resides in a 10,000 liter (1600 gallon) aquarium stocked primarily as a display of large and old reef fish.
Although sixbar angelfish can grow to be 18 inches long, we assume this guy is done growing. If this Pomacanthus sexstriatus has lived in captivity for over 41 years and it was already a medium size when collected from the wild, this particular fish is probably 45 years old, maybe more. For comparison that means this sixbar angelfish is more than a decade older than this author!
lespaul339
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This guy is pretty rad!
ThRoewer
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Yep, they can get quite old.
But they don't even come close to some subarctic deep water fish like the Rose Fish who lives for 300 years and only reaches sexual maturity at an age of 70. Though that slow development is not working well for them as they are caught as a food fish at an unsustainable rate.
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humaguy
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some koi, rockfish, and deep sea perch can live for centuries...lol, all infants when compared to some of the sponges near Antarctica, thought to be 10 millennia old...Cinachyra Antarctica is est to be 1,550 yrs old...black corals- Leiopathes, 4,265 yrs old and Antipatharia, 2,000 yrs old... giant barrel sponge Xestospongia muta...just amazing.
Dmorty217
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Hard for us to wrap our heads around something that lives that long
photoblepharon
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300 years? That is way way older than any max age I have ever heard of for a fish. Are you talking about Sebastes norvegicus?
Dkuhlmann
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Open up the picture and then save the URL then it will show full sized.
Ah thank you
Dmorty217
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CoralsAddiction
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Thanks for sharing!!!
