Guinness Book of Records: Oldest Goldfish 43 Years

Roan Art

Roan Art

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And people probably think we're full of floopie when we say they can live 20+ years:

http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/index.asp?id=51371

Comment from http://www.fishpondinfo.com/gfish.htm on Tish:

"Tish only grew to 4.5 inches long and was silver. Since 4.5 inches is not that long, either Tish was stunted (he spent many years in small bowls before moving into a tank), or he was a fancy variety of goldfish."

I'd say he was probably stunted.

FWIW,
Roan
 
I thought the record holder was a guldfish named Gluten. How long has the gold your talking about held its record?
 
fish_breeder_05 said:
I thought the record holder was a guldfish named Gluten. How long has the gold your talking about held its record?
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No idea, I got this from the Guinness site so you can go there and take a look.

Apparently there is a fish that will be entered into the books this year. Not sure what its name is, but it's 45 years old.

Roan
 
nomadofthehills said:
For tish... 43 years of crappy bowl life...
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No, Tish didn't spend 43 years in a bowl. He spend the first few years in bowl. He lived in a tank after that. Probably would have lived MUCH longer had there been enough info and access to larger tanks back then.

1956 was a long time ago and a VERY long time in terms of aquaria knowledge and technology.

Roan
 
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