growth rate....

joey02

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Does any one know an estimated growth rate for Gold severums? At my LFS they had 2, 7-8 inch gold sevs and the manager said they were only an inch in sept. 06, which is about an inch per month..... do they have the growth rate of an oscar?? thats what it sounds like. if so what should i be feeding them??? i currrently give bloodworm, krill, color enhancing flackes, hikari bio-gold and hikari cichlid excel... there are 6 of them in a 10 gal right now, but on next monday my new tank arrives.( 108 gal...72x18x20) any advice on what else i could feed or any one know the average growth rate??? thanks
 

sproett

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In my experience they don't grow as fast as oscars do. They are more of a disc shape so they grow all around rather than just in length. Hopefully someone else will have a better estimate for you. You already feed what I did, except I'd add brine shrimp and mosquito larva every few days (frozen) to mix it up.
 
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