18"+ Silver aros in a 55 gallon tank?

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Came across this video on Youtube and not sure if it has been posted on here before but it's 2 silver aros in a 55 gallon and they're both nearly half the length of the tank. Cut to the 3:00 mark for the aro tank. [video=youtube;1_gpMH9f5LQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_gpMH9f5LQ[/video]

Do they look stunted to you or do they look healthy? Not my fish and no I'm not considering doing the same thing in my tank. They look kinda miserable but physically healthy aside from the typical drop eye in my opinion. Just brings to question the idea of tank size vs water quality when it comes to stunting in fish as the water looks pretty clean but the tank is obviously way too small and yet the aros don't really look stunted in my amateur aro eyes. Thoughts?
 
Hard to say if stunted or not, how old are they. The Os in the previos tank don't look very healthy though.
 
Hard to say if stunted or not, how old are they. The Os in the previos tank don't look very healthy though.

No clue how old they are, if I were to guess according to how fast aros generally grow, I would say around a year and a half old. The Os looked like they had pretty bad case of HITH. Again, not my fish.
 
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