tiny pacu doubled in size and quadrupled in weight in 2 weeks

[youngbuckfl]

People, there is a simple solution to all our Pacu woes... eat em, there's a reason they are an appreciated food fish...

and they do taste good i dont think i could eat mine but have had them when i was in sa

 

[Knowdafish]

I think Pacus would be good candidates for fish farming!

 

[youngbuckfl]

im positive. they hit a growth spurt maybe around 6-8" and will grow so quickly, you can literally see the difference one day to the next. they generally seem to stop between 16 and 20" or so. and yes, this has happened to 4 of the 5 pacu ive raised recently from juvies.

i got one of my pacu in the start of 2007, and he was the size of a silver dollar coin. he's now maybe an inch or so shy of 24", and has been growing extremely slowly for the last year or so.

you are right about that growth spurt at around 6" mine hit that size and in a month and a half they are 11" and 13"