Originally published at: The oldest aquarium fish in the world is at least 90. She lives in San Francisco. | Boing Boing
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So was it called Methuselah in 1938? Cause if so, that’s some powerful manifesting.
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Apparently he was at the Shedd for 84 years, and was adult on arrival, so likely to have lived to mid-90s.
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Unrelated aquarium fish story:
Yesterday morning I saw one of the fish (a yo-yo loach) in my aquarium had figured out that some of the food from the feeder fell on the tank cover and didn’t make it in the water; it was swimming with over half its body out of the water eating food off the plastic cover. Apparently it got really greedy after I left the room and manage to jump out of the ~3cm hole in the top going after more. Somehow it ended up on the floor in front of the tank where I found it lying still, covered in carpet fibers.
Back in the tank now and still trucking along! Yo-yos can live in aquariums for many decades, although probably not 90 years
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I had a kuhli loach and I loved it! I haven’t set my aquarium back up - but when I do, I want at last one more kuhli loach.
Usually finding a fish on a carpet doesn’t have the same happy ending 
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I think there are 3 kuhli loaches in my tank; they’re great. The tank is heavily planted with lots of driftwood and they can go unseen for months at a time so its hard to be sure.
I was really surprised that it started swimming again when it hit the water 
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My dad had a neon tetra that started doing weird stuff. Swimming upside down or tail up. Something obviously wrong and expected him to be dead any day. But he hung on for like 4 more months.
He as a small “pond” in the back yard, like a 4 foot wide tub with gold fish. I think the oldest is 6 years old or so and about 9in long.
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Maybe they had 100 fish in 1938, named them all Methuselah, and this is the only one that lived for an appreciable time.
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Maybe so named because lungfish are considered living fossils?
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