To set up the family trust, transfer the property and shares, change the mortgage and set up their gifting programme, the cost will be around $3,130, plus disbursements and other costs. The ongoing fees will be around $220 a year to cover the annual meeting and $150 a year to cover the gifting requirements.
Even at the same age, they vary a lot in length. They grow rapidly during the first year, but the growth rate varies a lot even for fish from the same spawn, so the size of year old goldfish varies widely. Almost all of the goldfish you see in the big box pet stores are well under a year in age.
Long-Term Survivors. If you're willing to invest in the long-term needs of your carnival goldfish, he may live in excess of 20 years. The longest-lived known carnival goldfish was won from a fair in Yorkshire, England in 1956. The fish lived until 1999, dying at the age of 43 years old.