santoury;1040639; said:
Don't hate it, just don't agree with it, as the temporalis is the more common chocolate, while the cory. is much harder to come across. Whatever floats your boat though.
My chocolates grew like weeds, and never stopped.
It all depends on your feeding regimine, water change scheduals, and a couple other factors. Generally, females are gonna grow at a much slower rate than males. Dominant males are gonna grow faster than subdominant males and so on. 
. My pair went from 2" to almost 6" in about five months. Thats pretty good growth rate if you ask me. I was feeding them mysis shrimp, New Life Spectrum, Omega One, crushed Algae wafers, and Hikari sinking Carnivour pellets. I think the main thing that helped with their growth though was the consistant water changes. I was doing a 40% water change three times a week on their tank. It was a 125gal, so not horribly large, but the water changes helped out dramatically.
You can see the same results if you did a test with Oscars. You need really only need four groups of Oscars (about three, juv O's. of the same size). One for control, and the other for the experiment. I used 20gal tankz, but you can use whatever...just easier in a smaller tank. Set up the tanks the same way, bare bottom, same type of filters, and so on. Feed them at the same time, with the same foods. Only thing you will do differently is waterchanges. The first group, the control group, only do a water change every two weeks. The second group, do one, 50% waterchange a week. The third group, do three, 40% waterchanges a week. And the final, fourth group, do a complete, 100% waterchange every day. You will be surprised by the different growth rates. The ones with the 100% water change every day will out grow the other oscars so quickly its not even funny. Fun little experiment to do...
So the point of this long ramble was to be very faithful on your waterchanges, they help more than you know! 
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