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Hi,

Can someone please tell how quickly a Tiger shovelnose grows, based on good water quailty, adequate food, e.t.c
Thanks Deborah.

About 1-2" a month.

Hi
Thanks, have you had personal experience of this fish? I keep large cichlids e.t.c and did have a smaller one, unfortunately it didn't last too long - it became lunch. Funny thing was it was too big to fit into the other fishes mouths. Anyway, I have another tank set up and now seriously thinking of getting another. The other one sort of landed on me thanks to friends.

umm, before purchasing you might consider looking at this thread... http://www.forum.planetcatfish.com/viewtopic.php?t=3965

S. Allen wrote:umm, before purchasing you might consider looking at this thread... http://www.forum.planetcatfish.com/viewtopic.php?t=3965

Absolutely. This is not a fish for the home aquarium. Properly cared for it will grow in excess of a metre. The only way to prevent this is to deliberately mistreat it so that it is stunted, which is ethically unacceptable.

They are great pics, thanks for linking them. I see what you mean. Eventually I'm going to have a large indoor pond for all my large fishes.
Thanks everyone!
Devorah.

...but you know that the pond would have to be at least 5x5x2 meters to make a proper home for 1!! adult fish! And if it doesnt get to this size you practically kill it slow and cruel.
Just my 2 cents

An indoor swimming pool

I have two tigers. one is 18inches roughly (trade in locally) and one is 6inches. raised.
The bigger one I swear hasn't really grown much in my 280 gallon tank. The other goes through growing spurts about every 3months. He will spurt about an inch. I plan to buy a house with a swiming pool in the back. But my lady already complains about the idea of swimming with the fisheys. PLus the feeding cost would be outragous.... a 4-6 foot long fish.