World record Gold saum?`

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Nice GT! Just from that picture alone I can tell it's bigger than the average GTs.


Biggest one I have ever seen in person was easily over 12" with very body similar to that but it had a curved back:(.
 
GTbEaSt;4918710; said:
Imagine how big they get in the wild.
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Actually, it is not at all uncommon for fish to grow much larger in an aquarium than the wild given the correct conditions. A fish grows its entire life albeit much slower once they mature. In a tank a fish typically live a much longer life than in the wild. There is always abundant food. Their is little competition or chance of being killed by a larger predator. Life is simply much easier and less stressful giving the fish a chance to exceed that of his wild counterpart.

Oh, by the way... gorgeous fish!! :headbang2
 
MsMassPoly said:
My friend had an 19 inch one that lived for 20 years.This is the first time since i have seen a big brute,congrats!!
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I think BS on this one. If it was 19" it be in the record books.

Modest_Man said:
He was longer than a 5 gallon bucket is wide (12") so I called him 13"
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Nice Gold Saum.
 
k0y0te said:
I think BS on this one. If it was 19" it be in the record books.



Nice Gold Saum.
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Gravedigger! This thread is real old, hehe.

Unfortunately the big GT died only 2 weeks after i got him home. Never recovered from whatever disease he was carrying. I did measure him at 35½Cm when he died, so not as big as i originally thought, it might have been the thickness and how tall he was that threw me off.

Google says 35½ cm = 13,976" so a good 14" is still a huge gold saum, and haven't seen one as big ever since
 
Nice colour though, I saw a deformed one in my LFS that had no top jaw, looked like a muppet.
 
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