I actually have it for sale. I am going to wait until I have my 10'x10'x3' like I planned to in the first place. The one I have actually fell into my hands. I plan on my pond/tank being operational in the next 2-3 years. The tsn will have out grown my 180gal by then, so it is for sale. If I would have not been so sure that my house would have been in line in the next 1-2 years I wouldn't have gotten it to begin with. I have said over and over that I want to wait until my big tank is ready before I get any more big cats. So am I saying what people want to hear, yes. is it from experience, yes. I have been in the situation I am telling the op about. I had to sell my 3 large tsn before because I didn't have a pond ready.
Yes I have a 180 full of big gars and because they are in there I have sold all my aros, pbass, big cats, cichlids and a few others. All my plans got set back about a year due too an injury and resulting loss of my job. Knowing this I have made the proper precautions. The only thing that may out grow my 180 gal before I get my big tank up is my gator gar. That gator may not be in my tank long enough to out grow it because it may snap and be removed. These are all things you didn't know. Now you do, so telling people I am just telling them what they want to hear without knowing the actual facts is garbage. Notice how I stated if the op planned a bigger pond I would say years of stay in his current pond. Going off the ops posts, it was a for life question. I plan a big pond thus I have/had a cat to grow out. Pond date changed so why hold onto it knowing I can't keep it. I am not offended just irritated how so many people on here step up and say stuff they lack actual knowledge about. Especially when it about someone else.
Oh ya 5-6 years and it is already been stunted. These cats under proper housing, food and water quality can hit 2' in a year or less. That doesn't leave room for them to grow much more in the pond the op has got. Since once it starts to feel crammed in it will start to stunt. That is why fish in the wild are so much larger on average then fish in captivity. They should be larger in captivity then the wild because they don't have to fight for life it is "spoon fed" to them.
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