large albino iridescent sharks?

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I used to have a couple large regular id sharks 2'+ and enjoyed them very much. I currently have 3 albino ids which are still fairly small. What is the largest albino id shark you have owned or come across? I haven't seen too many good sized albino ids. Feel free to post your albino ids if you like.
 
Seen a few large ones posted on here. Still haven't figured the trick to getting these guys to grow quickly myself lol. I do daily water changes on my tank and feed 2x per day and mine are just barely growing .5" per month maybe lol. Had one at 8" and 1.5 years old before. They seem to have rather high metabolism. Mine are in with my Sun cats and when they eat their bellies deflate within an hour or two while the suncats will have fat bellies all day.
 
oh largest IDs I've seen were 2' at a resturaunt's tank I use to clean
 
2 of my current ones are growing like weeds so it may not be too long before they are nice size. They do love to eat :)
 
5 inch in a month ? i havent seen any growth in the ones i have owend but the parroon i had meany years ago had a good growth rate but jumoed out tank about 19 inch.
Dav
 
Biggest albino I have seem was about 14". So not that big. They seem to get sick even easier than the regular id's.

When I used to keep ID I experienced some great growth with them when feeding trout pellets and doing small feeding pretty much whenever I went by the tank. If I remember correctly they went fro about 2" to 5" in under a month. At that point though I sold them.
 
Dav;5055601; said:
5 inch in a month ? i havent seen any growth in the ones i have owend but the parroon i had meany years ago had a good growth rate but jumoed out tank about 19 inch.
Dav

Look closer. That was .5" as in 0.5" or 1/2". Sorry for any confusion.;)
 
Here is one of my previous ids. I'd love to see an albino this big.

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