What's your experience with growth variation?

[Cohazard]

I picked up two lil endlis about 2 months ago, at appx 4"


One of them has grown to appx 6.5-7", and the other is about 5-5.5"

I know there's variation in growth among clutch mates, so is my experience so far, normal?

TIA

 

[X24]

yup! perfectly normal for a variation of even that much.

 

[JESToner]

perfectly normal, how often do you change the water

 

[Cohazard]

I change about 60% once a week

Na get's to about 10ppm by weeks end.

 

[Wolf3101]

My wife and I noticed similar differances in her baby Pbass. Eventually the growth rates tend to even out at least in my expierance. My silver aro will seem to 'stall' for a while and grow noticably thicker just before going into a growth spurt that usually adds another inch or so to her length.

Niether one of us is a strong proponant of artificially high growth rates or 'power feeding' as it's often called to get 'instant' monsters. We know from feeding our dogs and wolves a raw diet that they tend to grow slower but have a MUCH higher resistance to health problems and on average a much longer life as a result. Granted fish are NOT wolves but we feel the basic princaple is just as sound...

 

[Cohazard]

Eventually the growth rates tend to even out at least in my expierance.

It's interesting that you mention that. I had some juvie altifron geo's not too long ago, and one grew faster than the other, then the smaller one somehow caught up.

I thought that was neat to see.