One might be very careful when ordering a "giant" online.
A camera is a mighty deceptive tool indeed.
Check out how big this orange of mine is....
Look how big compared to this other plakat....
Yea right. That small one is one of Synir's babies...the other is a baby from Wuv. Although Wuv's are rather large, compaired to the others I have..he is not a "giant"...although as disscussed in another thread he could possibly have some in him somewhere in his lineage...possibly..not certain though. Wouldn't be right to say he does, when you don't know though..right? Even though that would make him super cool.
here's the same baby next to a female.
Doesn't look quite so small does he? the angle and closeness of the camera to it's subjects makes them appear greater in size. I took this from behind the smaller one..so he appears to be equal in size to the female, which he most definately is not lol...not even close (love his little heart
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Here is a more fair representation of him ..compaired to the female
Hmm..what happened??? Look how just 2 pictures taken from different distances and different angles make this same fish look totally different.
Here you can see exactly HOW big he really is...with no room for exageration or slide of hands (due to the ruler lol). Still though..just from me not reducing the size of the picture..look at the difference in the fish, the only way you can tell he's not a full grown fish (or baby giant) is because the ruler is there.
Would be very easy to fool someone into thinking they were buying a "giant", huh?
I suggest always, always, alwaaaaays asking for multiple pictures of them next to other adult fish, or with a ruler (best imo).
Very tricky business indeed. I have seen SEVERAL on Aquabid claiming they have "giants" yet all the pictures they show are closeups with either as much of the background cropped out as possible or the background has been "fuzzed" (so you can't use the plants/rocks/otherfish in the background for size comparision), or the pics are blown up supersize.
Which leads me to believe they are trying to make the fish appear larger then it actually is.
Personally speaking..if I was going to spend what those poeple ask for those fish....they would have to show me a picture of the fish next to a ruler. For $200 they could snap a decent picture with a clear ruler like I have..I gave $1.19 for mine..(or at least a printed out ruler taped to the tank), imho. Otherwise I wouldn't buy them...just too much money at risk.
You'd have to have some mighty big jars though 
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