Anyone have large grass cutter catfish?

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Jack Dempsey
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Ive kept two grass cutter catfish for a few months now and i love the amount of movement they bring to my tank, they have grow a to about 6-7" over the past few months and I keep finding conflicting reports of full size from 12-24 in and a harder time finding a pic of a full sized one. Anyone else here keep them?
 

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Grass cutters are a genus, Schilbe, not one species: http://www.planetcatfish.com/common/genus.php?genus_id=33#440

But we pretty much only see Schilbe intermedius, which is well known and does not exceed 12" SL.

Lovely cat, indeed. Active. A small school would be awesome.

My guy at ~7" (lost afterwards)

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