ID SHARK GROWOUT THREAD

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FuriousFish said:
How do you know yours is a female... and there is NO way that is is done growing at 8 inches... thats just stunted... or maybe the reason why they usually only get 14 inches is cause they slow down alot after 8 inches and people stunt them so an already slow growing fish is stunted and growing even slower... also they could just die cause of small tank before they become monsters...
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im pretty sure he meant the senegal stopped growing at 8 inches...



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Ian21777 said:
im pretty sure he meant the senegal stopped growing at 8 inches...



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Yeah, I meant my Sen. But my ID's don't seem to be growing too much either. They grew really fast when I first got them but now seem to have slowed down quite a bit. I kept them in a 45 gallon for about two weeks when they were 2". Then I moved them to a 125 gallon and my big one got to about 5" and my small one 4"ish. Even though they didn't need it yet I now have them in a 220 for more swimming room. They still haven't broke 12" but I assume this is due to the fact that they won't eat now! Picky fish...


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Owens said:
Not to derail, but I have a question, I just boguth an ID Shark off a member from here thats around 12", he claimed it was around 3 years old. I know that is pretty small compared to how big i imagine they would be atround that age. It was in a 220g for most of its life from what i know, so it should be badly stunted. Do some just not reach thier monster size?
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This thread may answer your question(s). There appears to be two distinct groups of keepers - some report slow growth and fish not exceeding 1', others, like myself, report 1.5' in the first year. The reasons behind this have not been resolved AFAIK: http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/fo...ght=IDS+growth
 
Anchovie said:
I've never personally seen one hit 2'. Much like the petsmart Senegals, I think the size has been bred out of the cheap ones.
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IDK if mine were cheap or not but all 15 or so of my 2-footers were rescues. Funny how our experience can vary. I have never been exposed to a small and slow-growing IDS.
 
Stunting is not only a matter of the tank size. IMHO it is rarely is, excluding the extreme small tanks, like 1'x1' tank for a 1' fish.

AFAIK and correct me if I am wrong, most stunting/slow growth and maturity at smaller sizes occurs because of insufficient water changes which leads to an accumulation of growth-inhibiting hormones in the tank's water that is released by fish.

Some fish don't grow as big in captivity as they do in the wild, for example, common bream - if a juvenile is cut off and cannot reach a big river after a certain point, it slows growing and matures at a significantly smaller size... but that is a bit different topic.
 
Well i do plenty of water changes so well see...


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Hey guys, good news they are EATING!!! :O and they will NOT STOP at that... XD they eat ANYTHING feeders, shrimp, NLs, flakes, hikari, bloodworms... OTS LIKE THEY TRANSFORMED INTO KILLER MONSTERS OCERNIGHT XD XD XD


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