As a note, Brick's staggering growth rate continues. So here's where it stands now:
12/15/18 = 2 inches
1/4/19 = 3 inches
1/18/19 = 5 inches
He is now the same length as my 5 inch Parrot, Boss.
Diet: Hikari Gold, Hikari Excel, Cichlid Crisps, Bug Bites, peas, banana, Hikari Blood-Red Parrot Plus
Tank size 225 shared with one other fish, Boss the parrot
W/C Tuesdays and Saturdays, 40 percent
Meals are reduced from 6 small ones down to 4 due to larger size of pellets fed.
Brick easily consumes 20 medium pellets a day...he isn't chunky, constipated or fat just massive. He burns it off with high energy and swims the tank constantly. In fact I cap his consumption or he would eat more.
"Poop patrol" is daily after all meals are fed
I keep a transparent ruler at the base of the tank and he likes to check it out so measurement is easy...I honestly thought he was 4 inches until the other day when I noticed he was as long as Boss. Brick often rests by the ruler so I was astounded he's gone to 5...but his face is looking like a teen O for sure and losing that 'baby' look. He has more growth edges on his fins which appear every 2-4 days. I will have pics showing the progression.
I think I may have Otto from the Doctor Seuss story...