average porcupine growth rate
average porcupine growth rate
how fast should these guys grow? i have had mine for a year now. he was 2-3 inches and now he is at least 5 inches and over double the body mass when i first got him. does that sound about right?
- puffykid
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Re: average porcupine growth rate
That seems slightly slow, what size tank is he in, are you using vitamins and how often do you do wcs?
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Re: average porcupine growth rate
180 gallon . No vitamins and every week pwc.
- chuckfriedrice
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Re: average porcupine growth rate
Mine has done the same
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Re: average porcupine growth rate
ok cool at least someones puff is growing at the same rate. any idea how long until he gets max size? if he grows like this and the average is about 10 inches in an aquarium im thinking 3 years ?
- puffykid
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Re: average porcupine growth rate
Sorry I was mistaken then. You may want to consider getting vitamin supplement for him though. A good one that is popular around here is vitachem.
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Re: average porcupine growth rate
Use Vita-Chem AND Selcon to soak all his foods in.
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Re: average porcupine growth rate
ok ill give those vitamins a try. I always belived all that stuff was just snake oil so i never used it.
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Re: average porcupine growth rate
My fugu goes funny without his vitamins, defo see a marked difference in him between when I use them and when I don't. He's getting alternated vitachem and vitazin now. (Vitazin was all I could get hold of initially and I've got a bottle to use up!)
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C papuan
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lorteti
DPs
suvattii
burrfish
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Re: average porcupine growth rate
Please also use Selcon, it has amino acids + lots of other good stuff that cannot be found in regular vitamins.
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...
"The solution to pollution is dilution!"
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