Best food to speed up growth?

[IceGunner]

I find that live food helps fishes to grow out faster but on the downside, it could lead to a sooner death too. Thus I agree with the rest that you should use simple prepared food to grow out the birchirs steadily.

 

[convict360]

I was going to suggest prawns, I use them to size up fish fast, this is bad?

 

[krichardson]

Can't beat variety but I've gotten good results with certain pellets.Once I was able to get my normally stubborn and slow growing indo dat onto eating them it soon outgrew the live food eating NGT that it was housed with.

 

[knifegill]

Daily water changes, any high-quality food with adequate protein and some vegetable matter. Earthworms, crickets and peas/algae-based foods are a good start. But the growth will mostly come from the water changes.

I don't know polys well, so if earthworms are not an indicated food, okay.