What is the biggest fish you've ever owned?

[Dcal]

What is the largest fish in mass or length that you've owned in your fish keeping career? Fresh or salt

Edit: Pictures!!!!

Mine is my ~ 18 inch snowflake

 

[southerntnreefer]

i had 2. My old cowfish was the size of a softball... and my shark was like 2.5 feet. Both went to new homes as i sold my large tank.

 

[JumboShrimp]

@ De Fish... Put a Band-Aid on that! Ahahahahaha!

 

[DE FISH]

@ De Fish... Put a Band-Aid on that! Ahahahahaha!

Wouldn’t fit lol he’s quite a handsome horn likes to try bite you and jump at your face during water changes but when all is said and done I think he’s grown quite fond of the family lol

 

[jaxteller007]

Next tank which I have secured is 1500 gallons

Dibs on your 660 lol.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Dibs on your 660 lol.

For sale end of summer
I’m then preparing for Florida relocation and will be going to a 1500g

 

[vetteguy53081]

When are you starting the new Build Thread?

Won’t be in Florida officially until late spring 2022

 

[jaxteller007]

For sale end of summer
I’m then preparing for Florida relocation and will be going to a 1500g

We are moving in a couple months (staying in same city though) and I'm dreading moving our 180 and the livestock. Thankfully I've got a good friend that has a tank maintenance business in town and I'm hopefully going to be able to borrow a couple smaller empty tanks from him, set them up in the new house to transfer all the livestock, then drain and tear down the 180, move it, set it back up and let it cycle before putting the livestock back. The 180 could use a tear down as it is.
But I definitely want to upgrade down the road lol.

 

[Thomashtom]

Broomtail wrasse!! About 13 inches and still growing! Lol. Thanks

 

[Dcal]

By mass a 10" Guinea Fowl puffer. By length a 30" banded snake eel.

15” long snowflake eel .
he was re homed to the lfs after we caught him eating juv yellow belly tang

next is a 7” niger trigger

current large fish would be my mata tang and foxface both around 5”

Had a Snakehead about 20 years ago that was about 14 inches or so.

Had a 36 inch long common pleco that outgrew my 150gal before it became a reef tank. Scary fish to get out of the tank.

Nurse Shark about 3'. Would eat 12" trout like in one swallow. Shipped it back to Florida for release. Last homed in 1000 gallon plus tank of one of my customers. He got tired of feeding the trout and the expense. We called him Sam Bob for some reason.

Pics or doesnt count

 

[N.Sreefer]

Pics or doesnt count

Through 3/4 inch glass

 

[ZOZO]

Zozo Fish - 175cm

 

[Peace River]

The largest fish that I have kept is a 15" brown bullhead catfish that was hatched in my tank.

 

[Billdogg]

This is (was - RIP) Hannibal. Gymnothorax Undulatus - the Undulated Moray. Not normally seen in the aquarium trade due to his aggression and ability to eat pretty much any fish in the tank. When I got him he was ~18". When he finally passed 25 years later, he was almost 4' and as big around as my upper arm.

Here, about age 5-8

and here, when I moved him into his 150 at age 15 or so, probably 3'?

It was then that he really started growing. He would eat 3 palm sized fillets of whatever ocean fish I could get at the Kroger seafood counter weekly.

 

[Bpfor3]

I had a Picasso Trigger that was 8-9" once. I was scared to death of it. Only fish in a 75 gallon. It was beautiful, but man it was a rough and tumble fish. Wish i had a pic of it.

 

[Zionas]

Wow Foxfaces get big! I guess I’ll pass on having one until I get a larger tank haha.

 

[DaneGer21]

I had a 7”-8” vlamingi, he’s gone to another reefer with a larger tank.

And yes, that is an actual pic of him I took haha Beautiful and friendly fish!

 

[Zionas]

Dang was it caught at that size or grown to that size?

 

[Chrysemys]

This maybe stretching the “owned” part of this thread because it was for work.
Largest is a 6-7 ft sturgeon in a show pond. She was probably 100-150 pounds. They are such amazing fish. We would hand feed them trout. I have to say juvenile sturgeon are one of my favorite fish.

 

[Dcal]

This maybe stretching the “owned” part of this thread because it was for work.
Largest is a 6-7 ft sturgeon in a show pond. She was probably 100-150 pounds. They are such amazing fish. We would hand feed them trout. I have to say juvenile sturgeon are one of my favorite fish.

as the OP ill allow it lol. I agree, sturgeon are awesome

 

[Reverend Turtle]

Pics or doesnt count

For me it was about 20 years ago, and I didn't own a camera.