SAEDNEWS: Do you think a small goldfish can live for just 1 or at most 10 years? The numerical answer is much higher than what you might imagine.
According to SAEDNEWS, If you think that the lifespan of goldfish is limited to what you have seen over all these years in Nowruz celebrations and in your Haft-Seen table, you are seriously mistaken, because these small and seemingly delicate creatures can actually live much longer than you imagine and even hold Guinness World Records, the details of which you can read in this section .
The average lifespan of a common goldfish (Carassius auratus) is 10 to 15 years, but the current Guinness record for the oldest goldfish in history was set by a male goldfish named Tish, who lived to the remarkable age of 43. Tish, the oldest goldfish in the world and in history, lived until the age of 43 and secured his place as perhaps a permanent record holder in the Guinness Book of Records. According to documented information, the oldest goldfish ever observed lived from 1962 to 2005, meaning it survived for 43 years.
He spent his life in a simple goldfish aquarium in England, under the care of Hilda Hand and her son Peter. In 1956, when Peter was only 7 years old, he won Tish as a prize at a penny arcade stall at a fair, and he cared for it for many years. After growing up and leaving home, his mother continued to look after the elderly goldfish.
At that time, no one really expected Tish to reach 40 years, considering that most goldfish barely make it past a decade, but somehow he did, and now even 24 years after his death, he still holds the record for the oldest goldfish ever.
Hilda Hand told the Daily Express in 1998, when Tish was officially recognized as the world’s oldest goldfish, that he had a healthy diet and always enjoyed living in a quiet place. She said he was like an elderly living being who needed to take things more slowly.
In her interview with journalists in 1998, Tish’s owner also mentioned that in the final years of his life, his color changed from golden-red to silvery, similar to how human hair and the fur of other mammals turn white with age.
Tish died on August 6, 1999, but for many years he has still remained recorded in history as the oldest goldfish ever documented.
