Green Terror Growth
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Are you feeding him anything else? Cichlids need a good varied diet to do well. And you might want to try beef heart, which supposedly makes them grow faster.
Green terrors are kinda slow growers. They go through growing spurts. Big variaty of food (beef heart, blood worms, brine, feeder guppys, pellets and flake) make sure if you feed live you salt bath first esspecailly if you are feeding G/T. They get parasites easily. Oh and by the way if its a male 11 or 12 inche is more like it. Just take it slow and enjoy this size it will grow fast enough. You might want to upgrade adventually to a 75 I think 75 is a perfect size for single male. spend time petting and hand feeding your G/T and you will have a true water pet. Green terrors are some of the most owner responsive fish and will also learn to do "tricks" for there favorite snack.
I forgot to add clean water is a key to growing fish larger faster. I do 25% every other day with every other water change being a gravel vac. Good luck and happy fish keeping.
Yup,
clean water,
lots of food, all he will eat, 2-3 times a day
Jan,09 6.5"
Sept,09 8.5", 8 months later
clean water,
lots of food, all he will eat, 2-3 times a day
Jan,09 6.5"
Sept,09 8.5", 8 months later
in my experience a varied diet and 3 meals a day with weekly water changes of at least 30% and you should get roughly an inch a month maybe just under until it reaches about 6-6.5" and then they seem to slow down a lot.
genetics will also play a part. but you have no control over that unless your the mad scientist type.
genetics will also play a part. but you have no control over that unless your the mad scientist type.
I had mine for almost a year if I recall right. He never grew at all, he actually shrank. That's why I took him back. No shrinking fish allowed in my tanks.