cant tell from those pics but u must have been feeding your rtc a whole horse during that week.. But for them to reach 3 feet i say maybe 4 to 5 yrs if that.. y friends rtc reached 22 inches in 2 yrs and it only grew 5 inches in 4 yrs..
it ate a ton of, bloodworms,market shrimp,food sticks, hikari cichlid bio-gold pellets,ghost shrimp,nightcrawlers(whole ones), rotisary chicken(i was curious), rosies, goldfish, and fish filets. i might be missing some things but it didn't stop eating. now that it is in a tank alone i've slowed the intake.
these pics are to prove that it grew that big that fast..i didn't have a digital at that time...now i do...i can't go back in time to take the pics of the fish itself so this is the way i had to do it!here is a current pic with the digital, it is now 10.5" like i stated before! read before you make a week attempt at a joke