What is the BIGGEST discus on record?

[CammieTime]

What is the biggest/largest/heaviest discus that was ever known? Was it 9"? Does anybody have any pics of giant discus?

[Eddie]

Biggest discus I've seen in person was at the local hardware store here in Japan. Biggest fish EVER!! Imagine that a breeding cone is roughly > 9 inches tall.

[Disgirl]

I went to a lfs the other day, in another city, and a girl working there who has discus at home swears she has a wild discus that is as big as a dinner plate! I sure would like to see it!
Barb

[Jhhnn]

I went to a lfs the other day, in another city, and a girl working there who has discus at home swears she has a wild discus that is as big as a dinner plate! I sure would like to see it!
Barb

People exaggerate, that's for sure. I suspect that a very few discus can exceed 9", but that's extremely rare. Kenny offered some snakeskins awhile back that were an honest 8", and a couple of my blue scorps really, really, are 7". They're as large as any I've seen in person, but then I haven't seen a whole lot of discus, either, except in pictures...

Most of the time, you can subtract an inch from however large people claim adult discus to be, land pretty much on an accurate measurement... sad but true...

[GlennR]

The "Biggest" ones always seem to get away....

[John_Nicholson]

The biggest discus that I ever had measured 6 3/8 inches WITHOUT its tail. Never measured him with his tail.

For the last several years anytime someone makes a dumbass claim on the size of their discus I have asked them to put the fish on a towel with a tape measure and take a picture. No one ever post their results. This is mainly because when they measure their discus they are not near as big as they thought they were.

-john

[Discus-Hans]

Can't find the original pictures but had those on hand,

Hans

[Discus-Hans]

The biggest discus that I ever had measured 6 3/8 inches WITHOUT its tail. Never measured him with his tail

-john

John, if we measure you we include your feed too (or there was not much left lol) Discus come with a tail (or mine do) so why not include the tail?????

Hans

[Tito]

Most write ups say - Heckels up to 8" and the others up to 6". I think anything 8" or larger is more of a genetic anomaly and nothing to be proud of - should be frowned upon.

I tried looking at those Hans photos - they are sooo tiny!

Could not make out the numbers on the ruler.

[Discus-Hans]

I tried looking at those Hans photos - they are sooo tiny!

Could not make out the numbers on the ruler.

I had to make them so tiny, if I would keep them the real size they won't fit on your screen lol lol lol

Hans

[phatdave]

The men's world record for the men's 2kg discus throw is held by Jurgen Schult of Germany with a throw of 74.08 meters in 1986.

Sorry I had to.



Dave

[Discus-Hans]

of Germany .......................
Dave

See Germany again lol lol

Hans

[tdiscusman]

This video show one that claimed to be 9" LSS (I think it's TL)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLXVV...eature=related

and this one is 10" SL (without the tail)
http://forum.simplydiscus.com/showth...7306&page=2#27

Tony

[DiscusOnly]

Can't find the original pictures but had those on hand,

Hans

I remember a discussion about this about the same time last year. Walter posted some photos of Hans discus and they are truly giant. If you look at the end of the post, you can see the large ones that Kenny sold about 2 years ago.

http://forum.simplydiscus.com/showth...ythical&page=5

[vss]

The biggest one I knew by far is the giant LSS from Lee Tong Juan a few years ago in competitions (sorry don't remember which), also another one from Tony Tan...they are both said to be around 10'' TL.

courtsy of Lee Tong Juan



courtsy of Tony Tan




-Xiaofei