Fish not growing

[Kei_Utile]

Hello.
I’m currently feeding a mix of PE mysis shrimp, NLS marine pellets, reef frenzy nano and very occasionally flake food. I don’t feel like my fish aren’t growing as well as they should. After a feed they’re usually very content and they’ve gotten plump in the midsection. I feed 1-2 a day and I’ll do a snack feeding if I’m home.
A fat fish is a happy fish but is there anything else I can do to help them grow?

 

[Jexnell]

Best thing for good steady growth is water changes.
In the wild a fish will have a 100% water change every minute, due to the flow of the rivers. So the more we can replicate this the better growth you will get.

An example, my Oscar, started at 1.5in.

With fin lever water changes every three days, she grew into this monstrosity in just 10 months.

 

[Joshuakahan]

Hello.
I’m currently feeding a mix of PE mysis shrimp, NLS marine pellets, reef frenzy nano and very occasionally flake food. I don’t feel like my fish aren’t growing as well as they should. After a feed they’re usually very content and they’ve gotten plump in the midsection. I feed 1-2 a day and I’ll do a snack feeding if I’m home.
A fat fish is a happy fish but is there anything else I can do to help them grow?

It would be helpful to know what type of fish, tank size etc…

 

[esoxlucius]

A fat fish is a happy fish

Not necessarily. A more accurate description of a fat fish would probably be unhealthy/grossly overfed. Both scenarios not good.

Feed a quality diet, keep your water pristine, provide a stress free environment with an adequately sized tank and growth tends to look after itself. If any of those basic requirements falls short then growth can suffer.

And of course it could well be you just have a notoriously slow growing species of fish.

As you can see there are several very important variables regarding growth.