When you measure your fish do you include the tail or not?

I vote Tail, cause then I can say hes bigger!!

I measured 2 of my Oscars today! And My Red came in at 14 on the nose and the little red came in at 12.5!!

Nickisue wrote:


haha and i was just stoked to find out my tiger is 4.5" lol but thats like half an inch in 8 days , his fins are white where there is new growth...

good sizes you got there nickisue, anything after 14" would be a bonus

Nickisue wrote:

is it in inches or centimeter?

i normally measured my o in two section: mouth tip to tail tip
and mouth tip to base of the tail. and i found out that there are
times the tail is shorter whenever i have a high nitrates. i can not
explain why but it does happen. at the moment, the film on the tail
tip is the basis of my water change. the shorter the film, the higher
is the nitrates.

Inches honey! My male is 14 inches and my female is 12.5 inches.

Nickisue wrote:

that's a lot of oscar fillet...3.3 lbs more or less

LMAO!! No eating my Babies Paul!!!

usually fresh water fish are measured in total lenght(tail included) and when salties are measured the tail is not included(not usre why). i read this somewhere but now i cant figure out where.

This is a subject that used to really annoy me when I was a member of oscarfish.com. They were all under the impression that you used a SL to measure Oscars. This is actually incorrect as you normally use this on marine fish. When measuring freshwater fish, you measure the whole fish, including the tail.

myfwc.com/RECREATION/FW_Fish_Measurements.htm

Thanks Guys! I measured the whole fish including tail! Got 2 of them measured will do the other 2 today when I do my water change!

So far: Big Red 14 in.
Little Red 12.5 in.

Blimey, 14 inches? That is very big