Food and Growth

[eSUng15]

Hey I'm just wanderin, which foods for fish helps their growth? just wandering cause I've noticed my shark getting bigger from the last 4 weeks I've had it.

 

[Link]

High protein foods, live and frozen foods. They will add growth to a fish. But then again so will a spacious tank, good water quality and little or no stress

 

[CFC]

Couldnt of said it better myself, for fast growth heavily feed with live foods and change water daily.

 

[Nidge]

The best foods to give your fish are foods that they eat in the wild.
This is in reality is not easy so give them food that comes close to it.Most fish eat the likes of shrimp and krill which makes up alot of their diet except for herbivores that is. So get them food which contains these foods and you cant go wrong.

 

[Melfice]

Couldnt of said it better myself, for fast growth heavily feed with live foods and change water daily.

Changing water everyday would be a lot of work. I do it weekly and fish seem fine.

 

[CFC]

Sorry i was not saying everyone should change water every day, just that if you want your fish to grow really quickly changing water everyday will speed things up. Some fish produce growth inhibiting hormones which are released into the water, one theory is that in the wild these are produced and released so that the top fish in a school can keep the other fish at a smaller size. But whatever the reason these hormones build up much quicker in a aquarium and so have more of a affect at slowing the growth of all fishes so removing them on a more regular basis will help your fish keep growing at faster rates.

 

[Melfice]

Sorry i was not saying everyone should change water every day, just that if you want your fish to grow really quickly changing water everyday will speed things up. Some fish produce growth inhibiting hormones which are released into the water, one theory is that in the wild these are produced and released so that the top fish in a school can keep the other fish at a smaller size. But whatever the reason these hormones build up much quicker in a aquarium and so have more of a affect at slowing the growth of all fishes so removing them on a more regular basis will help your fish keep growing at faster rates.

Oh I see. Thanks for the info B)

 

[canarsie11]

Sorry i was not saying everyone should change water every day, just that if you want your fish to grow really quickly changing water everyday will speed things up. Some fish produce growth inhibiting hormones which are released into the water, one theory is that in the wild these are produced and released so that the top fish in a school can keep the other fish at a smaller size. But whatever the reason these hormones build up much quicker in a aquarium and so have more of a affect at slowing the growth of all fishes so removing them on a more regular basis will help your fish keep growing at faster rates.

That was some good info, did not know that at all