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When we were breeding angles, the biggest one was probably at least 7"

Sadly it died from being nipped to death by sword tails

biggest?? foot tall.....

They're pretty anyway

My 4" angel
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Cory, this dinner plate size angel is a "I once caught a fish this big" tale. When people are talking any size above 5 inches they are talking about with fins (my angels are 7" tall with fins and 3.5 - 4" body). I've seens some big angels, but none have a body size bigger than 5-6" at the most. Some wild angels or altums may get bigger but who knows.

I already stated that my angels weren't behemoths. They aren't the biggest angels out there, because they are only a year old. I just assumed that by 9" people meant with fins, cause I've never heard anyone claim they had an angel with a body size of 9". So my angels aren't really what you are looking for.

Anyways, here's a picture with a ruler. He looks about 6 inches with fins and a body size of about 3 inches in the picture. Rmember that he is about 5 inches away from the glass, and therefore looks a little smaller than what he really is. I don't think he/she would have liked it if I put the tape measure in the tank with them. Also, my marble angel is the older one, and has a little bigger body size, but doesn't have the wingspan. However, my marble didn't want to play "chase the hand" and was kind of frightened by the ruler. The picture is horribly glared, but it's the best shot I got to show his size.
This one shows his impressive wingspan

I added some more shots as I realized the last one was about 3 months old anyways. So you can check those out too. They are a little better quality.

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Critical Fertilator: The Micromanager of Macronutrients

It would be nice if everyone stuck to one measurement of length. Tail fins vary too widely to constructively use them as a measure of maximum size.

Exactly. On all scientific and research sites, measurements are in standard measurement. Total length is highly innacurate, because say someone developed a strain of angelfish that had extremely long filaments on its tail. To say that fish was 2' long would be incorrect, because it would really be the same size as an angelfish with short fins.

Fishermen use total length to measure their catches because they want to make the fish seem bigger than it really is.

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

It would be nice if everyone stuck to one measurement of length. Tail fins vary too widely to constructively use them as a measure of maximum size. Two different angel (betta, guppy, etc.) varieties may grow up to be equally big, except that one has a large tailfin and the other doesn't. Are we then going to say that one grows two inches bigger than the other? We could, but it isn't a very useful thing to say in most contexts - i.e. determining bioload, working out whether a fish is at full size yet, comparing two varieties or two species for growth potential, etc.

If you are talking body size then they are about ~4", I'm getting all confused. I'll take a picture with a ruler in it when the lights come on today.

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Critical Fertilator: The Micromanager of Macronutrients

If supposedly they get to be the size of dinner plates, are they considered food fish in their native range?

I would love to see a picture of a 9" angel...

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

i saw one which must of been 9 inches long

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''All the clown fish and yellow tangs in the world cant save you now!''

Matty, do you have something that you can put in the picture for comparison? Even those don't look 7" long to me.

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

These look pretty-pretty big to me if you check the bottom of the page



This is a pic of my 7+" angels

These are about a year old, and I just busted the ruler out so there ya go, not behemoths, but maybe someday.

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Critical Fertilator: The Micromanager of Macronutrients

What is the BIGGEST Freshwater angelfish you have ever seen? I am just curious as to maximum potential size.. for fun! Does anyone have any pics of Behemoth angelfish?? Come on.. cough them up! I know there must be some out there somewhere!!

72 gallon bowfront:Tanganyikan Lake set up
75 gallon: A. Baenschi trio,Cyanotilapia Afra Cobwe(4), copadichromis trewavase, protomelas sp. tangerine tiger(breeding pair)

Even that angel only appears to be about 4" long...

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

This guy's got a pretty big one: [link=http://showcase.aquatic-gardeners.org/2002.cgi?&op=showcase&category=0&vol=2&id=44]http://showcase.aquatic-gardeners.org/2002.cgi?&op=showcase&category=0&vol=2&id=44" style="COLOR: #4040FF[/link]

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I saw some altums at one of my LFS's a couple days ago, they had like 10! I was pretty surprised. just out of curiosity, what do those normally go for? they had them for $20, I would have expected them to be much more expensive!

i have angels and i have seen bigger then 4 inches long before i have seen about 6-7 inches long and also

they are my favorite fish and as a matter of fact i have two at the moment and one isnt looking so good but he will most likley shape up

anyone have any cool pics of this?

72 gallon bowfront:Tanganyikan Lake set up
75 gallon: A. Baenschi trio,Cyanotilapia Afra Cobwe(4), copadichromis trewavase, protomelas sp. tangerine tiger(breeding pair)

I've kept P. altum, but they didn't last very long They are at least as hard as petrophylum angels were several decades ago (before they started to be captive-bred, now they're quite easy)

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That is true, but P. altum is very rare in the hobby.

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

depends on the kind of angel! I think altum angels (p.altum) get quite a bit larger than p.scalare