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Nice pics. Ill try to post a pic of my 2 guys
 
Here ya go...

My big boy at 8-9"

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and my lil guy at 6-7"

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These are incredible specimens....I can't get them here in Texas. They (like almost any other non-native, even slightly predatory fish) are illegal. Sucky. I am curious though as to their slow growth rate (especially H. goliath). Unless the water temperature/chemistry/prey/feeding frequency is drastically different in central and northern Africa from captive conditions and is causing a radically accelerated growth rate, the huge 50 pound plus specimens that are caught there must be pretty darn old....like 20 years or more.
 
venmus93;3477741; said:
These are incredible specimens....I can't get them here in Texas. They (like almost any other non-native, even slightly predatory fish) are illegal. Sucky. I am curious though as to their slow growth rate (especially H. goliath). Unless the water temperature/chemistry/prey/feeding frequency is drastically different in central and northern Africa from captive conditions and is causing a radically accelerated growth rate, the huge 50 pound plus specimens that are caught there must be pretty darn old....like 20 years or more.
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They do grow much quicker in the wild. I have seen on a doco a ten month old vit at 10" to 11". I would think it would be feeding frequency, food quality and water volume. I was originally feeding mussel shrimp and other lower protein foods and was keeping mine in a 75. I have noticed an acceleration in growth when I put him into a 360 and am feeding large quantities of fish meat. Primarily Trout.
 
jelly;3478702;3478702 said:
They do grow much quicker in the wild. I have seen on a doco a ten month old vit at 10" to 11". I would think it would be feeding frequency, food quality and water volume. I was originally feeding mussel shrimp and other lower protein foods and was keeping mine in a 75. I have noticed an acceleration in growth when I put him into a 360 and am feeding large quantities of fish meat. Primarily Trout.
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Very interesting information...thanks!
 
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