Does any one have pics of some big D.Sexfaciatus at aquariums or in the wild id really like to see some but I cant seem to find any pics of them that are over 15".
Pics of big D.Sexfaciatus
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brcacti;3919090; said:
Yea thats all iv been doing...but just find the same pics iv seen plenty of times already and nothing extremely big like 18"+.
Whats the biggest that any MFK'r has or has had?
Hey regalt! Check out this members pic (not mine), it caught my eye in the CA/SA cichlid media lounge. You could PM him and ask for better pics?
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showpost.php?p=3907439&postcount=473
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showpost.php?p=3907439&postcount=473
Yeah you're right DaveB. 
And thank you for the very welcome information!
All I knew they were definately not going to be larger than 10-12".
I had two of them (one died last summer..
), but the other one is now 8". Two years ago as a Barbus Pentazona alike the school took him in.
I hope 3' is gonna be it in captivity?
A well 3' or 4'.. big is big.
Colours are gonna be less bright I reckon?
I dunno what but two years ago my LFS sold about 20-25 tiny ones..
And thank you for the very welcome information!
All I knew they were definately not going to be larger than 10-12".
I had two of them (one died last summer..
), but the other one is now 8". Two years ago as a Barbus Pentazona alike the school took him in.I hope 3' is gonna be it in captivity?
A well 3' or 4'.. big is big.
Colours are gonna be less bright I reckon?
I dunno what but two years ago my LFS sold about 20-25 tiny ones..
I'd be shocked if anyone ever got one over 2 feet in captivity. Hell, Bongo is the only one I've seen that's truly well over a foot.olllie;3948731;3948731 said:Yeah you're right DaveB.
And thank you for the very welcome information!
All I knew they were definately not going to be larger than 10-12".
I had two of them (one died last summer..
I hope 3' is gonna be it in captivity?
A well 3' or 4'.. big is big.
Colours are gonna be less bright I reckon?
I dunno what but two years ago my LFS sold about 20-25 tiny ones..
In my experience a fish will grow only as much as the tank allows. I was power-feeding some juvenile Uaru - between 4 and 8 times a day - in an overfiltered super clean growout tank, but they stalled once they got too big for it. I dropped them in the big tank and now they eat once every 2-3 days, but they've grown noticeably in 2 weeks.
My sole remaining distichodus has grown 3" tops in the 20 months I've had him. In his case, though, it's just because I don't overfeed (and partly because now that he lives with cichlids, he only gets vegetables. This sucks for his color, btw). I'm notorious for making all my fish grow as slowly as datnoids. My black Aro has grown an inch in a year. A lot of people on here make it a race to get these huge fish - and the distichodus I gave to Regalt was roughly the same age as the one I kept, and he's 9" or so - but I don't see the point. I've already delayed my monster tank acquisition twice. Life happens. I'd rather not rush to grow a fish I'll no longer be able to keep. I'll powerfeed growouts but that's it. The fish live just fine on one meal a day or less.
Anyway, the ones I have had in the past, including the one in my avatar, grew at a slow and steady rate. You can definitely keep them for a very long time in regular sized tanks unless you're really overdoing it with the feeding. Regalt has an enormous tank, so he can do the work to get his guys bigger. But if that's not your goal, I wouldn't worry about them outgrowing your current tank.