What are some fish that have short lifespans? Preferably less than a year?
I was interested in challenging myself to document the life of a fish and see how long I could keep it living with very good health care. In short, see if my fish caring know-how could achieve one of the longest living healthy fish for the particular species.
I would document the care I provided, but with so many variables I won't make any claims as to what specific thing led to a prolonged life. Not trying to prove anything, but I could see how the information may be beneficial, it's just more of a personal challenge than anything.
I just wanted to try it on a short lived species so it would be easier to keep up documenting it's life, rather than have to keep a journal on a 5 year or 30 year living fish.
Not guaranteed I will give this challenge a go as I have already downsized and slowed down quite a bit on this hobby, but just thought I'd ask and find out what fish species would fit the bill.
Only short lived species I really know of are annual killifish, but even though they have a general lifespan of a year, others have already kept them alive for +3 years. And Pseudomugil rainbows are said to live maybe 1 1/2 years, but people have kept their for 5 years with good care.
So as you can see, I really want to find a species that would normally live shorter than that.
I already have fish that have lived longer than their average lifespan, but since it's not documented in a journal, it's just word of mouth and no documented proof.
I was interested in challenging myself to document the life of a fish and see how long I could keep it living with very good health care. In short, see if my fish caring know-how could achieve one of the longest living healthy fish for the particular species.
I would document the care I provided, but with so many variables I won't make any claims as to what specific thing led to a prolonged life. Not trying to prove anything, but I could see how the information may be beneficial, it's just more of a personal challenge than anything.
I just wanted to try it on a short lived species so it would be easier to keep up documenting it's life, rather than have to keep a journal on a 5 year or 30 year living fish.
Not guaranteed I will give this challenge a go as I have already downsized and slowed down quite a bit on this hobby, but just thought I'd ask and find out what fish species would fit the bill.
Only short lived species I really know of are annual killifish, but even though they have a general lifespan of a year, others have already kept them alive for +3 years. And Pseudomugil rainbows are said to live maybe 1 1/2 years, but people have kept their for 5 years with good care.
So as you can see, I really want to find a species that would normally live shorter than that.
I already have fish that have lived longer than their average lifespan, but since it's not documented in a journal, it's just word of mouth and no documented proof.
