| No. | All keepers listed by when they started keeping this species. The longest an individual has been kept is 16 years, 0 months. |
| 1 | arapaimag since 1997-09-14 to 2013-09-14, that's 16 years, 0 months |
| 2 | synoguy (k: 2) since 2006-02-10 to 2009-07-18, that's 3 years, 5 months |
| 3 | Freakdaddy since 2007-05-16 to 2009-05-16, that's 2 years, 0 months |
| 4 | daniel60 (k: 5) since 2007-05-17 to 2013-11-19, that's 6 years, 6 months |
| 5 | Dave Rinaldo (k: 2) since 2007-10-19 to 2012-01-04, that's 4 years, 2 months |
| 6 | Plunt since 2008-05-07 to 2010-05-07, that's 2 years, 0 months |
| 7 | Tasplec (k: 2) since 2008-07-27 to 2010-09-22, that's 2 years, 1 months |
| 8 | maddrell since 2009-03-30 to 2011-03-30, that's 2 years, 0 months |
| 9 | zigster (p: 2) since 2010-05-11 to 2011-01-06, that's 0 years, 7 months |
| 10 | fusco since 2010-06-27 to 2012-01-09, that's 1 years, 6 months |
| 11 | markhinch since 2010-08-17 to 2012-08-17, that's 2 years, 0 months |
| 12 | Firestorming since 2011-06-24 to 2013-02-21, that's 1 years, 7 months |
| 13 | maynard1982 since 2011-07-08 to 2013-07-17, that's 2 years, 0 months |
| 14 | JamesStuddart (k: 2) since 2011-08-03 to 2012-05-01, that's 0 years, 8 months |
| 15 | TimWheatley (k: 3) since 2011-11-02 to 2013-12-12, that's 2 years, 1 months |
| 16 | bigamefish since 2012-01-03 to 2014-01-23, that's 2 years, 0 months |
| 17 | Blackguard (k: 3) since 2012-04-18 to 2014-05-14, that's 2 years, 0 months |
| 18 | miguel mitchel since 2012-06-23 to 2014-12-23, that's 2 years, 6 months |
| 19 | syno-kev (p: 2) since 2012-09-25 to 2013-08-12, that's 0 years, 10 months |
| 20 | Sean B since 2014-03-02 to 2016-03-02, that's 2 years, 0 months |
| 21 | Redtailrob since 2014-10-12 to 2018-03-17, that's 3 years, 5 months; who writes, "Very active Pim." |
| 22 | Arron_N since 2015-03-27 to 2017-04-02, that's 2 years, 0 months |
| 23 | Sabaji since 2016-04-19 to 2018-07-06, that's 2 years, 2 months; who writes, "Has his place in a large cave, only comes out when feeding time. Friendly with all other tankmates" |
| 24 | mcaquatic (p: 2) since 2017-03-19 to 2019-03-19, that's 2 years, 0 months |
| 25 | Aqua_Bankie (k: 4) since 2018-03-30 to 2020-11-18, that's 2 years, 7 months; who writes, "Added three more on the 21/11/18 , the original Ornate showed some aggression to the three new juveniles its 6” vs 3-4”, this continued for about 2 weeks they now all shoal together fine with no aggression." |
| 26 | Rola (k: 2) since 2019-07-09 to 2021-07-09, that's 2 years, 0 months |
| 27 | FishmonJohn since 2020-12-17 to 2022-12-17, that's 2 years, 0 months |
| 28 | N_F_S since 2024-04-08 to 2024-11-23, that's 0 years, 7 months |
