I have been visiting this forum for quite sometime, ever since by daughter won a goldfish at a fair 2 years ago its been a new hobby/obsession of mine more than my daughters. I dove in deeper into this hobby and decided to finally get a fish of my own. I bought a flowerhorn at the LFS in March but for some reason he has never really grown. Before I even bought him, I made sure I was able to test and control my water parameters to a tee. My city water currently comes out of the tap at 8.2ph and 20ppm Nitrates, so I knew I was in for a struggle. I had a spare 29 gallon tall from the previous goldfish tank. So I pre-cycled the media I was going to use in the new tank for months, I decided to move the media into the new tank and purchase my flowerhorn. He has been healthy and active ever since March but he was not growing and he is always hungry. After noticing his lack of growth, I decided to buy a inline filter to remove some of the Nitrates because that was always a consent battle for me. I was able to lower the Nitrates to 5ppm and he was still acting the same. He was 5 inches when I got him but he is maybe 6 inches now. The last thing I could think of is that he might be a short bodied flower horn which explains somethings regarding expected growth rate.
Thanks,
Troy
Thanks,
Troy