hey guys can u please tell me about bichir growth rate? i have 2 albino bichir for about 2 months now they havent see to go in length. i feed them 2 times a day when im home (most of the time) 1 time when im busy (about 2 times a week) i feed them shrimps from the market and massivore delite pellets. they live in my 120g and both both eat a lot they only growth i see on them is there width. if u have any ideas please leave it in the comments. Thank you!
Bichir growth?
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Telling us their length they were when you acquired them might help, along with their age if known... otherwise you'll probably have more luck waiting for water to boil.
My ornates gained in girth more noticeably than length also when I first acquired them.
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Albino Sen's don't get as long as the regular cb Sen's, I have grow outs that has out grown the Albino Sen that I already had. I've noticed that Sen's have growth spurts. There was a thread posted this week about bichir growth that you can read about other members opinions on growth
How big are they? Albino sens usually grow decently fast when juveniles like most polys, but usually stop growing as fast at smaller sizes. So it may grow really fast to 4"-6" then slow down a lot. And usually once they slow down growing in length (as pretty much with all polys) they start to fill in their body with width. So I would probably start watching and monitoring how much your feeding them so that they don't become "too fat" and start to bloat. Sens tend to have this probably more so than a lot of other polys if your not careful. So I would probably slow down on feeding to 3-5 times a week so that they don't become overly fat and start to develop health problems.
CB senegals vary pretty widely in maximum size, depending on genetics, so it's hard to say how big yours will get, let alone when they will reach their final size. I kept a senegal for about 3 years and it grew from about 3" to about 5-5.5" in a year or so, and then for the next 2 years, it really only grew in girth.
my first one is about 5" it eat a lot of food and it eat everything and anything i throw in the tank. my second one is about 4" it doesnt eat as much as the first one it only eat about once a day sometime twice a day. to be honest i dont really know how old they are but they are really active even during the day.
Ok well it's normal to see a drop off in growth around that size. And most times they can go a while without food so if they don't eat one day but they do the next don't be surprised. I've had bichirs that will pig out one meal and be so full they don't even try for the next one a couple days later.
My sens and dels have grown to nearly double their size in about 6 months to 10 and 6 inches respectively, my ablino's have grown very little, my ornate seems stunted at 3 inches and has not grown in 2 months