yeah and if you were nine and had a messy O in a 20g for a year your water quality wasn't as good as you thought it was and your O was severely stunted from it, now i will say that i have noticed fry grow a lot faster in a larger tank even though i did wc on the smaller tank every other day, but that is growth RATE and so is a little different, actual stunting (where their insides continue to grow but their body stops) is mainly due to water quality
Will overstocking your fish tank stunt fish growth?
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Deep Blue Sea;3869920; said:I have had examples such as an oscar i had when i was 9 my friend also got 2 while he was with me they were all about the same size but my friend had a 50 gallon and i had a 20, my water quality was always good but i noticed after about a year his fish were noticably larger then mine was
water quality isnt the only thing that stunts a fishes growth, for example your friend could have been feeding his oscar a more higher quality food, or feeding his fish more often than you did, your fish might not have been stunted, it might have just been growing slower than his fish. also you said your water quality was good, how about his water quality? just because you said your water quality was good dosnt mean it was better than his, like i said above it is always harder to keep water quality great in a small tank, unless you have like a 24 hour drip system or you do a large daily water change lol. i do also think that a fish will grow faster if kept in a larger tank, because you got to think that more area to swim means that they will be more active than in a small tank, just what i think about it.
Sarah88;3869975; said:yeah and if you were nine and had a messy O in a 20g for a year your water quality wasn't as good as you thought it was and your O was severely stunted from it, now i will say that i have noticed fry grow a lot faster in a larger tank even though i did wc on the smaller tank every other day, but that is growth RATE and so is a little different, actual stunting (where their insides continue to grow but their body stops) is mainly due to water quality
lol
I feed my fish smelt form my backyard which are jam packed with protein to premote growth and as for bad water i check my Ph everyday and if its off at all i add chemicals to restore the water to optimum quality
Deep Blue Sea;3870022; said:I feed my fish smelt form my backyard which are jam packed with protein to premote growth and as for bad water i check my Ph everyday and if its off at all i add chemicals to restore the water to optimum quality
haha there is more to water quality than PH. your water quality wasnt as good as you thought it was like said above. also you dont just add chemicals to your tank when water quality is bad, first off you need to figure out why your tank quality is bad, then go from there.
Deep Blue Sea;3870040; said:well to me Ph = Nitates Nitrites Chlorine Hardness and Ph I test them all
lol also another thing you shouldnt have chlorine in your tank period. you should always de-chlorinate your water before adding it to your tank. look deep blue, not trying to be hard on you or be an a-hole but you honestly need to do more research and learn more about fish keeping and everything before you jump in and try to give someone wrong info.
I had my 265 filled to the brim with between 50 and 60 african cichlids. (haps and peacocks, I know they're not SA/CA but same principle) With really clean water, all the fish reached their maximum sizes of between 6" and 14". The tank had tons of filtration on it (2- FX-5's, 2- Eheim 2217's, 2- Marineland 400's, 2- Koralya 4's and a 55 gallon sump) Water changes were don once a week of about 120 gallons. So in my opinion, with super clean water and good filtration, you shouldn't have stunted fish.
overstocking in itself will not cause growth stunting. But not properly maintaining your overstocked tank, will.
Growth stunting is caused by an excess of GH hormones in the water. The more fish you have, the more concentrated the levels of this hormone. You will need to keep up with frequent WC and cleaning to combat this.
Growth stunting is caused by an excess of GH hormones in the water. The more fish you have, the more concentrated the levels of this hormone. You will need to keep up with frequent WC and cleaning to combat this.
scream-aim-fire;3870056; said:lol also another thing you shouldnt have chlorine in your tank period. you should always de-chlorinate your water before adding it to your tank. look deep blue, not trying to be hard on you or be an a-hole but you honestly need to do more research and learn more about fish keeping and everything before you jump in and try to give someone wrong info.
exactly the test is to make sure there isnt any in it. I'm not stupid i wouldnt fill my tank with chlorinated water
