Quick Question About Angelfish..

[youngfisher]

Well my girlfriends father has a tank, with serveral different fish in - And they have 2 angel fish, bought EXCATULLY at the same time, from the same place, same tank etc etc.

Well over time one seems to have grown HUGE! And one has SHRUNK!

I mean one is tiny! and one is fairly big.

Any reason for this, or just like..growth spert and no growth spert? lol

 

[youngfisher]

Bump.

 

[youngfisher]

Eh, Bump

 

[arobinson1984]

Have you watched them at feeding time?

Maybe one is bullying the other slightly and the smaller one isnt getting as much food?

There is always goingto be some variation in size, I'm 6'1 but my older brother is 5'8

Andy

 

[youngfisher]

Yeah - But the variation is like you being 6'1 and your brother being 2'8

 

[drobbyb]

Good clean water and frequent waterchanges will also make a fish grow faster.

 

[Andy P]

The smaller fish may just be a bit of a runt!
I know that sounds mean but within one batch of fish there can be tremendous variation - in the wild the smaller fish may have been picked off by a predator or may not have had much luch with the opposite sex but that in no way devalues it as an aquarium fish IMO!

Andy