How Fast Do Green Terrors Grow?

[jason n]

i just bought a new gt it is 2 and a half inches how fast do they grow?

 

[Caprichoso]

It is dependant on how much food it gets, food quality and the water quality. The better the food and water conditions, the faster it will grow(within reason of coarse).

 

[Proxo]

i just bought a new gt it is 2 and a half inches how fast do they grow?

Had my GTs for roughly 2yr, male and 2 females grew pretty slow, alot slower then i've heard.
Recently my male has hit roughly 5inch and seems to have hit a rapid growth boost.

I'll admit there diet wasnt the best when i first got them as i didn't know much about fish/fish keeping.

 

[ChilliPepper]

Pretty quick, if I remember rightly, about half an inch a month. But this does depend on how often/how much/what you feed your fish. I feed mine a variety of foods once a day. HTH.

 

[holidayinn]

Hi my GT is an extremely slow grower compared to his tankmates....I think most of the time with cichlids the most dominant fish in the tank have a more accelerated growth, unless they are naturally quick growers i.e. Oscars, Trimacs, Pearsei etc.

 

[johnboy!]

Depends on a lot of variants, Tank size is a big factor IME, bigger tank=quicker growth, As said above, a dominant male will outgrow females and subdominant males, as is common with a lot of amphilophus and obviously oscars. A good filter is VITAL to growth too, quality of food also, I bought a trio of green terrors a while back, about 5 years, and they were an adult breeding trio within 2 years, they did have a 4x2x2 all their life though

Edit: Another thing which can effect growth is tank temperature!

 

[ChilliPepper]

Oh, I should add, mine was female and she started off in a 190L tank, so not a big tank. She grew about half an inch a month, then when she went in a bigger tank she started to bulk out a hell of a lot as well.

 

[micko]

Jason, did you get your previous stocking issues sorted?

 

[jason n]

Jason, did you get your previous stocking issues sorted?

what stocking issues are you talking about? i dont know what you mean.