who has the oldest Arowana on MFK?

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just came back from a trip to china
i saw these asian aros in a lfs, the store owner claimed they were 30 something years old, originally wild caught from the previous store owner and not for sale.
just the height of the aros is longer than my hand (palm and fingers combined)

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wow they are beauties.... wonder if they truly are 30+ years..that would be awesome...
 
Johny;1961934; said:
that tank looks way to small for all those asian aros....but damn there nice!
i agree but quess they are doing well if they are that old and look that good.
 
I am in no way shape or form attempting to be a smart ass or start trouble, but you ask every member that posts on this thread to get pictures of other peoples old Aro's. When they post them you immediatly disregard they're post's by stating " Very nice aro , but it does not count because we are unsure of how old it is."

I think the size of the aro is more important, obviously a 2 foot aro is very common, but the difference between a 30" and 34" aro is huge. perhaps 3-4 years of growth. I just think age is impossible to fully represent when 9/10 people with aro's do not document their growth because they are MONSTER growth fish. like RTC and Pima...

Long story short, the bigger the ArO, the older obviously
 
^ nice post. If the was a reputation button on this forum i would be pressing it now.
 
Mikeyy;4737979; said:
I am in no way shape or form attempting to be a smart ass or start trouble, but you ask every member that posts on this thread to get pictures of other peoples old Aro's. When they post them you immediatly disregard they're post's by stating " Very nice aro , but it does not count because we are unsure of how old it is."

I think the size of the aro is more important, obviously a 2 foot aro is very common, but the difference between a 30" and 34" aro is huge. perhaps 3-4 years of growth. I just think age is impossible to fully represent when 9/10 people with aro's do not document their growth because they are MONSTER growth fish. like RTC and Pima...

Long story short, the bigger the ArO, the older obviously
i agree that the bigger the arrow the more age he has.. although there are some stunted older aros i am sure.. or some older ones that for one reason or another did not hit the average size for their age..and then sometimes it is hard to determine size in some pics... so the correct way is to accept an op as telling the accurate truth...other then that we would need proof.. and that is in most cases unattainable.
 
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