Bean Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 Hey! I have a question about my fish not growing. So basically I have a 75 gallon with multiple fish . The 2 plecos have grown a lot but my angelfish and parrot fish haven’t really grown and I’ve had them for 6+ months does anyone have an idea to why this is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larrimore Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 First thing I would look at is food. What have you been feeding? How often? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bean Posted November 23, 2020 Author Share Posted November 23, 2020 9 minutes ago, Larrimore said: First thing I would look at is food. What have you been feeding? How often? I feed them hikari flakes, pellets, frozen and live brine shrimp and bug bites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrozenFins Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 2 minutes ago, Bean said: I feed them hikari flakes, pellets, frozen and live brine shrimp and bug bites those all seem like quality foods, how often do you feed them. To boost their growth I might try frozen blood worms, and feed a lot more of it. You could do feedings twice a day, feeding as much as they can eat in two minutes. and every third day feed frozen blood worms for one feeding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bean Posted November 23, 2020 Author Share Posted November 23, 2020 3 minutes ago, James Black said: those all seem like quality foods, how often do you feed them. To boost their growth I might try frozen blood worms, and feed a lot more of it. You could do feedings twice a day, feeding as much as they can eat in two minutes. and every third day feed frozen blood worms for one feeding. I feed them once a day but kinda a lot of food and I will buy some frozen blood worms when I get back from vacation. I will also start feeding them twice a day and see how that works out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lefty o Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 cold temps, and not suffiecient food are in my experience the 2 things that slow/stunt fish growth. imo , feeding twice daily is preferred to once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bean Posted November 24, 2020 Author Share Posted November 24, 2020 4 hours ago, lefty o said: cold temps, and not suffiecient food are in my experience the 2 things that slow/stunt fish growth. imo , feeding twice daily is preferred to once. Yes I think it’s because of the cold temps. I’ve felt the water the past few months and it seemed cold but my thermometer said 80 but when I used a proper thermometer it was like 70 I think so I got a new heater today and we will see how that works out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 10 hours ago, Bean said: I’ve felt the water the past few months and it seemed cold but my thermometer said 80 but when I used a proper thermometer it was like 70... I have been lied to by thermometers too many times. They are on my 'trust but verify' list now. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruud Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 1 hour ago, Daniel said: I have lied to by thermometers too many times. They are on my 'trust but verify' list now. without wanting to hijack this thread, but any advise here? My readings are inconsistent as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 6 minutes ago, Ruud said: without wanting to hijack this thread, but any advise here? My readings are inconsistent as well. First I believe what my hand tells me. You can tell the difference between 75°F and 80°F and 85°F with your hands very reliably. Second, I bought a NIST traceable thermometer on Amazon for less than $100 US that give accurate reading to within 0.1°F. I then used the NIST traceable thermometer to calibrate my other thermometers which varied from nearly accurate to off by 4 °F. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KBOzzie59 Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 @Ruud Not sure how much you are wanting to spend but I use the older version of this. http://www.omega.com//_ui/responsive/theme-omegaengineering/images/favicon.ico Portable Thermometer Thermocouple Data Loggers with SD Card WWW.OMEGA.COM Portable handheld thermometer/data loggers with backlight display and built-in analysis functions. Supports most standard thermocouple and RTD types. Allows me to monitor 4 tanks, or any combination of tanks and room temperature. Spends most of it's time logging 2 grow out tanks. You can run it on a PC and monitor temps real time as well as log the data. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bean Posted November 24, 2020 Author Share Posted November 24, 2020 2 hours ago, KBOzzie59 said: @Ruud Not sure how much you are wanting to spend but I use the older version of this. http://www.omega.com//_ui/responsive/theme-omegaengineering/images/favicon.ico Portable Thermometer Thermocouple Data Loggers with SD Card WWW.OMEGA.COM Portable handheld thermometer/data loggers with backlight display and built-in analysis functions. Supports most standard thermocouple and RTD types. Allows me to monitor 4 tanks, or any combination of tanks and room temperature. Spends most of it's time logging 2 grow out tanks. You can run it on a PC and monitor temps real time as well as log the data. Alright thanks I’ll look into that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bean Posted November 24, 2020 Author Share Posted November 24, 2020 When I put the new heater in my fish became less shy and they are eating more food. So I definitely think it was the heater and thermometer screwing me up 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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