Juvenile Festae starting to color up

[twhittle]

My 3 inch festae is starting to color up. Looks like I have a boy

 

[vinod_uthaiah]

Yes sure it looks male n nicely colouring up too.
What do you feed your stock

 

[twhittle]

Yes sure it looks male n nicely colouring up too.
What do you feed your stock

A mix of Hikari pellets, worms, krill, shrimp. The pellets are the main staple though.

 

[qguy]

looks like he feeds them yellow paint....

 

[the animal guy]

lol

wicked lil fella

Great example of well taken care of fish,

 

[twhittle]

He's a slow grower though. I got him at 1 inch and its taken him 8 months to grow to 3 inches.

 

[vinod_uthaiah]

How big a tank is he in , who are the other occupants in it

 

[twhittle]

How big a tank is he in , who are the other occupants in it

He's in a 75 gallon right now with 5 tin foil barbs, 4 clown loaches, an acara, and a bristle nose pleco. They are all smaller except the barbs.

 

[MP_cichlid]

He will hit a growth spurt, once he hits 5 or so inches he will soar to 10 before you know it

 

[Fluidsuit]

He will hit a growth spurt, once he hits 5 or so inches he will soar to 10 before you know it

Can definitely confirm this claim. Mine eventually accelerated their growth rate once they hit about 6", and don't appear to be slowing down. My adopted male is now regularly staring down a 12" Oscar and he's maybe 9".