How do you measure the size of your fish?

[Freezekougra]

My fish keep moving

 

[jworth]

try to hold the measure up to the tank if nothing else (if its that important) net them out and measure them up.

 

[famous323]

try to hold the measure up to the tank if nothing else (if its that important) net them out and measure them up.

X2

 

[chesterthehero]

-get better at eyeballing
-mark the tank/mount a measuring device to the tank so you dont have to move in order to measure anything

 

[uncwnells]

x2 with everything stated, you can also compare them to something in the tank and then measure that.

 

[drizzt04]

option 1: take a car battery, hook a couple of wires to it. drop the wires in the tank. the fish will stop swimming for a while. i find it easier to measure a vibrating fish than a swimming one.

option 2: pour a bunch of gelatin into the tank. after it firms up, measure away.

option 3: hide behind the tank with a flashlight. jump out and yell boo while shining the light in their eyes. while they a frozen scared, snap out the tape.











ok, seriously.............dont try 1 or 2. 3 should be ok, but you have to make sure you put a vid of it on here or it wont work.

 

[ThaDude]

I keep a 10" Black Piranha, so I use a bizarre method.
I take a section of bubble wall with a suction cup attached, and fix the cup to the middle of a plastic ruler (resembles an upside-down T). I then gently get as close as I can with it and take measurement.

 

[albirdy]

yeah, i just keep a ruler in front of my birchir tank at all times to measure his growth. he is a slow-growin one!

 

[LowCel]

I say "ooh look, he's a biggun". Or "he's still an iddy biddy un". It's not the most accurate method but it works for me.

 

[fishkeeper25]

fish are bigger outside of the tank than through the window so wtv u could easily add half an inch to ur fissh if u measure him from inside the tank