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[ausknife]

my mate has a 2 ft gibbi i will try to get a pic
my common is about a ft but hes only 2 yrs so i think he will get bigger

 

[sandtiger]

14" royal, actually won him from MFK. He's dead now.

 

[sandtiger]

Some photos from the web

 

[T time]

4" royal, actually won him from MFK. He's dead now.

That sucks man, what happened?

 

[kyleking007]

my what I think is just a common? older picture its around 22'' now. I have another but its probably only 20 inches and I have no pics of it.

 

[sandtiger]

That sucks man, what happened?

I don't know, one day he was munching on a cucumber and the next he was dead, the other fish in the tank were fine. I got him at that size so perhaps he was old? I like to think that was it.

 

[StiffMeister]

To revive this thread;

Anybody here knows the size of the biggest royal ever seen/reported/photographed? Anybody knows how big these guys really can get?

 

[jd300]

One of my former big cats. Lost the royal in an overfeeding mishap involving a quarter of a pumpkin. The royal was just shy of 19".

wow thats awesome looking royal how old do you rember him being?

 

[koop171]

what is the albino one ? from post 114 on page 11 ?

 

[davo]

what is the albino one ? from post 114 on page 11 ?

your post is 114... do you mean the one in sandtigers post? That is Parancistrus aurantiacus, they can change colour through their lifetime and vary in whitish yellow-gold-grey-almost black in a number of patterns. Shown here http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/species.php?species_id=82 No L number for this one mate. Don't think they quite get to the size your after either, but a nice species though, if a little pricey.