Cichla monoculus and Cichla orinocensis growth rate

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kamikaziechameleon

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I'm looking at how fast the Cichla monoculus and Cichla orinocensis growth rate is. How long to reach 12 inches how long to reach 24 inches? I'm not aiming to power feed the juevies just to know what to expect. starting size would be approximately 3 inches.
 
You have to power feed Orino's, or they will trake forever to grow...My opinion.....Good luck.
 
i would seperate the orinos and monos..only bcuz monos grow super fast and they will outgrow the orinos and will eat them..orinos grow really slow..
 
Houdini89 said:
You have to power feed Orino's, or they will trake forever to grow...My opinion.....Good luck.
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Very good point. I bought 2 orino, two mono, two occel and two tems all at the same time and around the same size. And in a two months time frame, it appears the mono are growing fastest, then the ocell, and then the Tems (though the tems gets largest). As for the orino, one has come up missing and the mono's are twice the size as the orino now. In fact I was wondering what the hell that little bass in there was but now I know it the orino. That sucks as I hear they are a ncie looking bass as they mature, I just hope I have one to see for myself.
 
Ok that is actually good. I got 4 Orinos 3 inches for about 15 dollars each. I've always wanted peacock bass. They are currently in quarentine in a 55 galon with an silver arrow(5") and delhezi bichir(4") that were all part of a deal I got. I will be moving them into a 265 gallon in the next couple months. I don't want them to necessarily grow super huge super fast. At what size do they taper off about and slow down growth??? I've seen sizes between 12 inches and 28 inches on the web. The slower they grow the better honestly.
 
Well the tems u have, u can expect a 2-4" growth a month my three are averaging around 3" a month right now then they slow down from what I've read and been told around the 2' mark till they hit maturity. So its a possibility you may only wind up with tems if the others don't keep up a half growth rate to the tems altho the orinos and monos are the more aggressive ones so they may have a chance. I had a 9" orino try to eat a 6" tem and it got its head in but it freaked out and spit it back out cuz it was way to big to eat it
 
Yes sir that's why they were saying o's are the slow growers but I've had me temensis since middle of June of this year and there almost 11" I haven't measured there a Lil longer than my largest zulie and Xingu and they came in at 8" now there about 10"
 
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