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M.Carfi
09-20-2009, 11:30 AM
Jelly and Andri those vitts are SICK!!!!!
Nice pics. Ill try to post a pic of my 2 guys
Here ya go...
My big boy at 8-9"
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and my lil guy at 6-7"
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venmus93
09-23-2009, 7:25 PM
These are incredible specimens....I can't get them here in Texas. They (like almost any other non-native, even slightly predatory fish) are illegal. Sucky. I am curious though as to their slow growth rate (especially H. goliath). Unless the water temperature/chemistry/prey/feeding frequency is drastically different in central and northern Africa from captive conditions and is causing a radically accelerated growth rate, the huge 50 pound plus specimens that are caught there must be pretty darn old....like 20 years or more.
These are incredible specimens....I can't get them here in Texas. They (like almost any other non-native, even slightly predatory fish) are illegal. Sucky. I am curious though as to their slow growth rate (especially H. goliath). Unless the water temperature/chemistry/prey/feeding frequency is drastically different in central and northern Africa from captive conditions and is causing a radically accelerated growth rate, the huge 50 pound plus specimens that are caught there must be pretty darn old....like 20 years or more.
They do grow much quicker in the wild. I have seen on a doco a ten month old vit at 10" to 11". I would think it would be feeding frequency, food quality and water volume. I was originally feeding mussel shrimp and other lower protein foods and was keeping mine in a 75. I have noticed an acceleration in growth when I put him into a 360 and am feeding large quantities of fish meat. Primarily Trout.
Bogwoodbruce
09-24-2009, 1:55 PM
Gorgeus tigers guys! I need to get some pix of mine had him for over a yr now.
venmus93
09-25-2009, 2:24 AM
They do grow much quicker in the wild. I have seen on a doco a ten month old vit at 10" to 11". I would think it would be feeding frequency, food quality and water volume. I was originally feeding mussel shrimp and other lower protein foods and was keeping mine in a 75. I have noticed an acceleration in growth when I put him into a 360 and am feeding large quantities of fish meat. Primarily Trout.
Very interesting information...thanks!
Tigriuns™
10-01-2009, 10:23 AM
Very interesting information...thanks!
Thank for the comment there... but i no longer keep them
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-nqu6imKfA
svang55
10-01-2009, 12:50 PM
here's mine a year ago at 11"
svang55
10-01-2009, 12:52 PM
Here ya go...
My big boy at 8-9"
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and my lil guy at 6-7"
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that's a nice fat 8-9 incher Eric
West1
10-03-2009, 10:53 AM
that's a nice fat 8-9 incher Eric
Thank you Sir:D... I keep my guys well fed (atleast I try;))
Got to catch up to your big dogg:naughty:
Post a update pic of your guy... what is it now 13" or so?????:drool:
Bogwoodbruce
10-03-2009, 3:06 PM
some new pix of mine
http://i776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/BoggyMFK/CSC_0429.jpg
http://i776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/BoggyMFK/CSC_0430.jpg
http://i776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/BoggyMFK/CSC_0431.jpg
Some updated pics, now 12"
channarox
01-04-2010, 12:57 AM
nice and bulky!
Tigriuns™
02-18-2010, 11:17 PM
something i found online...
http://www.magsdirect.com/md/Destination%20Fish/items/product/destinationfish.jpg
http://www.magsdirect.com/CreateThumbNail/CreateThumbNail.aspx?image=sites/magsdirect/images/items/fishfly.jpg&maxWidth=200