Two Indo-Pacific tarpon, ~15", ~3 years old, in 4500 gal
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Yes. From memory, I read 1.5ft in fresh, 3ft in salt. In the wild the max is 5ft. Ours has been so far a total confirmation of the freshwater max number.
I love these guys. If I had a big enough tank, for sure would be the stars. I've seen some decent sized freshwater ones here. They get sold as Oxeye herring here.
A bit of an update on the 3 tarpon. The only thing to note is that they used to relish local (south Florida caught) 2"-3" glass minnows / anchovy but we ran out of them a couple months ago, so they had to take only the NLS pellets. In a month or two we got Peruvian smelt, looks like a glass minnow type too, ~4"-6", yellow tail, lateral white stripe, but the tarpons refuse to take it, even cut into smaller size, they spit them out. Hence, their growth slowed down 10x it seems.
After some significant reshuffle the 3 grow out tarpon go from 240 to 1800 gal: