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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 5408609" data-attributes="member: 57383">Hmm.A bit of googling found a <a href="http://www.csgnetwork.com/fishfreshwtcalc.html" target="_blank">Fresh Water Fish Weight Estimator</a> which gives a weight around 4000 pounds for a 20 foot carp.A big carp is up to 4 feet long and weighs 30 pounds or more, multiply that by 125 and you get 3750 pounds - call it 4000 pounds, the minimum standard weight for Huge creatures.That seems rather low, but bear in mind that wild carp tend to be lot slimmer than the domestic variety (they haven't been fattened up, for a start) and there's a lot of variability in the weight.For example, a really massive carp is 4+ feet and 80+ pounds, which extrapolates to about 10000 pounds for a 20-footer.According to this <a href="http://www.dfid.stir.ac.uk/afgrp/greylit/TH014.pdf" target="_blank">thesis</a> on Silver Carp hatcheries, an average silver carp is 48.2cm long and weighs 1.6 kg. That's equivalent to a 7000 pound 20-foot carp. Alternatively, we could base the weights on a <a href="http://www.coloradokoi.com/koi_weight.htm" target="_blank">Koi</a>. A 3 foot Koi is about 30 pounds, which would make a 20 foot one about 8,500 pounds.Both the previous examples are probably a lot plumper than a wild carp would be, though.So, 7000 pounds seems within reasonable bounds for a 20 foot carp, depending on how stocky it is, but so would 4000+ or 5000+ pounds.I'll leave it to you two to decide.EDIT: Frankly, anywhere between 4000 and 10000 pounds would suit me.</blockquote>

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