I've kind of kept a 'growth progression' measurement of Brick since his dimensions are easier to see change. The three things I measure are head width, body height and length. Definite changes each year. In school I used to love graphs and calculating stuff, like trying to calculate the value of PI to zero. You math freaks will know that you can never get the exact value of PI, but can only creep to infinity value. So the curve flattens out but you never get to zero.
So anyway, applying this to Brick. His length of course is now a slow creep, but its the mass that's the biggest difference now. Someone here posted that a 14 inch oscar weighs twice as much as an 11 inch one. I didn't believe it before but I do now. Especially since I have pics of Brick at both sizes. I can compare him with my second largest fish, Bobo. The chocolate last clocked in at 1 1/4 lbs (she's heavier now) months ago. BUT as big and chunky as she looks, when I did water changes and saw her and Brick side by side top view, he dwarfs her. I didn't believe it myself it seemed crazy. Plain weird. I never weighed Brick (barring an emergency it isn't worth it). But my eye test based on the chocolate says 2 - 3lbs. It's enough that he bent one of my nets and that was awhile ago.
What drives me nuts is that Brick almost never spreads his fins. They always appear to be flopped down and relaxed. I've been trying for the longest time to get a nice 'full' shot but he never cooperates.
His black pigmentation continues to get more dominant even though he still has lots of red. Some days his head is solid black (like when he was a baby). Its also spreading over his tail more. Impossible to say why his color still shifts so much. I might go downstairs aand have a black Oscar one day!
Year One 12 inches length / body height ~6 inches, head size ~3 inches.
Year Two ~14 inches length / body height 6 inches, head size 3 inches.
Year Three 14+ inches length/body height 6.5 inches, head size 3.5 inches.
So as you can see its much more gain in mass at this point.
So anyway, applying this to Brick. His length of course is now a slow creep, but its the mass that's the biggest difference now. Someone here posted that a 14 inch oscar weighs twice as much as an 11 inch one. I didn't believe it before but I do now. Especially since I have pics of Brick at both sizes. I can compare him with my second largest fish, Bobo. The chocolate last clocked in at 1 1/4 lbs (she's heavier now) months ago. BUT as big and chunky as she looks, when I did water changes and saw her and Brick side by side top view, he dwarfs her. I didn't believe it myself it seemed crazy. Plain weird. I never weighed Brick (barring an emergency it isn't worth it). But my eye test based on the chocolate says 2 - 3lbs. It's enough that he bent one of my nets and that was awhile ago.
What drives me nuts is that Brick almost never spreads his fins. They always appear to be flopped down and relaxed. I've been trying for the longest time to get a nice 'full' shot but he never cooperates.
His black pigmentation continues to get more dominant even though he still has lots of red. Some days his head is solid black (like when he was a baby). Its also spreading over his tail more. Impossible to say why his color still shifts so much. I might go downstairs aand have a black Oscar one day!
Year One 12 inches length / body height ~6 inches, head size ~3 inches.
Year Two ~14 inches length / body height 6 inches, head size 3 inches.
Year Three 14+ inches length/body height 6.5 inches, head size 3.5 inches.
So as you can see its much more gain in mass at this point.
