How do you prefer your fish?

[Nova 8]

I like to get them young, as young as possible. I'd pay more for young fish then I would for adult fish. I like to know they have had good care and food all thier lives.

 

[krichardson]

I like to get my fish small as possible almost fry and watch them grow
It's like a child, are you gonna adopt a grown ass man ?

LMAO...


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[jordanhunt]

Babies and watching them grow.

Speaking of which, anyone here have 'baby' pics and adult pics to show the changes in their fish? I find that most interesting.

Two pics of my pleco

This is when I got him, sorry for the bad pic but compare his size to the cory

And now, only 8 inches but he grew from the first one to this in a year


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[jordanhunt]

And my synodontis, you can see how he's grown by the cave entranceView attachment 875245
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[runr986]

fry/get them small and watch them grow

 

[MidWestMike]

When I got my first big tank, I bought three baby oscars, after a month or so with no noticeable growth I ended up trading them for two adult oscars. Had those two for less than a year before I got bored of them and sold em. My baby's where such aggressive eaters, where the adults were slow moving and kinda boring. Looking back I feel as if I had kept the baby's, I might have not lost interest in them so quickly and would have been more attached to them as adults. I know the guy personally that I gave the baby's to, and they've grown considerably. So now I prefer my fish as small as I can, given they're not so small that they end up as bait with tank mates.


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[KrazEDesigns]

Very nice jordan

Yes, it's a goldfish...

This is my oldest fantail nearing 9yrs old now when I first got her on 2004:

And this is her last year (bad quality pic) in my hand:

Here is another one but recent - my hand is against the glass where she is lazing to get another idea of size:

 

[Miguel]

awesome.

I fully understand you guys rationale.

But i want to enjoy my fish at their highest potential. Never know when the heart attack strikes and then it is over.

The pleasure of watching grow I have had with 7 children. Fish I want "ready"

 

[seel1990]

Always get them when they're young. Very satisfying watching them grow


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[cichlid_obsessed92]

Depends, I would never again buy a baby festae, I've never had a fish that grew slower and I had 5 wild caught festaes that I power fed high protien pellets and frozen foods and one year later that were all below 5"....... But I don't like buying large fish because it seams I can never get them to "play nice" with my community's lol

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