You're right, of course. I'd love to see him go to someone with a tropical pond. I keep putting it off because I'm really going to hate letting him go.
Thats mine after exactly 40 days of heavy feeding. Sadly my 180 project was lengthened to do a faulty pipe in my basement so i needed to get her out of the 55 before she got injured so i gave her to an lfs. Had to do that with many of my growouts, was definetly a sad day.
All is well that ends well though. I love my native tank.