My silver arowana in 4500 gal

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Four silver arowana in 4500 gal tank, three are 30", one recent rescue is ~24".

My subjective comparative assessment is they are all males based on color on the back and the length of the pelvic fins and extensions. My only female displayed a notably darker color dorsally and longer pelvic fins+extensions. She had had three or four clutches of babies over the last few years, which were mouthbrooded by alpha male named Alf: https://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/...wana-spawn-on-mfks.670573/page-2#post-7532553

I had lost my only female Kinky not long ago but these males are still doing this circling each other thing but no significant fights anymore since Kinky had been killed in the other 4500 gal (the reason I rehomed them into this 4500 gal).

 

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Very impressive. What are those tanks made of? Shipping container?
Thank you! Its a fiberglass tank 13'x13'x4.5' with an acrylic window made by Dolphin Fiberglass in Homestead, FL.
 

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One doesn't have drop eye correct?
 
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One doesn't have drop eye correct?
Great eye, J!

That's Alf, my alpha male that mouthbrooded 3-4 batches of babies with Kinky, my only female. Alf is the only remaining arowana of a 5-batch that I've grown up from babies in 2012 to adulthood. None of them had a drop eye. (Kinky was killed in 4500 gal not too long ago; the other three perished in a too cold natural pond one cold spell a while ago - weren't smart enough to hang around the heated portion.)

The three rescues in the video came from small tanks and have varying defects, including one or even two drop eyes.

My 5-batch in Nov 2012:

Group 120 gal Nov 2012 1.JPG
Mar 2013:

Jurs 3-22-13 - 1.JPG Jurs Mar 2 2013 -2.JPG

Adults in Feb 2015:

Arowana Feb 2015  1.JPG Arowana Feb 2015  2.JPG
Kinky in Feb 2015, the name is obvious - when babies, she fought with Alf and one morning we found her with her spine kinked up like that:

Arowana Feb 2015  3.JPG
Mar 2016:

Group, tank 2-2 Mar 2016 2.JPG

Alf and Kinky's babies:

Arowana babies 1.JPG

Rescued arowana in temporary koi pond:

Koi, Freddy's aro in koi pond 1.JPG Koi, Freddy's aro in koi pond 3.JPG Koi, Freddy's aro in koi pond 4.JPG Koi, Freddy's aro in koi pond 5.JPG

Some of the 6 rescued arowana from 2009-2011 in Rochester, NY, befor the move to FL, 4000 gal pond in our basement, 40'x6'x2.5':

GG Gus 3.jpg RTC 1.jpg TSN, Jo and Terroristo.jpg
 
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