Fahaka smaller than expected
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 12:02 pm
Hi all, I think I may be being overly cautious but here goes.
First of all tank is 5 x 2 x 2 with 2200lph flow filtration PH 7.2, Nitrite 0, Nitrate 5-20 depending on change. 60-90% water change every 7-10 days.
I have had my Fahaka just about one year, when I bought her it was from Japanese water gardens about a week or two after Rocker first noticed them in march 07 and at that time she was 2-3 inches.
When she came home I put her on her own in a well established 35 gall tank, at 2 inch I considered that to be ok and ordered a 5 x 2 x 2, this arrived 4 weeks later and I transferred her with the filters to the new tank.
She has always been happy and is constantly on the go, if either my wife or I move she is there to see us. She has spawned twice now, once in January and again a few days ago.
I feed frozen raw king prawns some with and others without the shell, Frozen live mussels, Frozen cockles, ramshorn/apple snails and the occasional small live crab. All frozen food it thawed in tank water for an hour or so.
At just over a year old she is approx 4-5 inch long body and another 2.5 inches of tail.
Is this stunted or slow growing as I expected from other articles for her to grow a lot more.
She is fed until she has a rounded belly most but not all days and her current size she will eat either 3 to 4 inch of king prawn or 5 mussels or 6-7 cockles or 10-12 fully grown ramshorn snails.
First of all tank is 5 x 2 x 2 with 2200lph flow filtration PH 7.2, Nitrite 0, Nitrate 5-20 depending on change. 60-90% water change every 7-10 days.
I have had my Fahaka just about one year, when I bought her it was from Japanese water gardens about a week or two after Rocker first noticed them in march 07 and at that time she was 2-3 inches.
When she came home I put her on her own in a well established 35 gall tank, at 2 inch I considered that to be ok and ordered a 5 x 2 x 2, this arrived 4 weeks later and I transferred her with the filters to the new tank.
She has always been happy and is constantly on the go, if either my wife or I move she is there to see us. She has spawned twice now, once in January and again a few days ago.
I feed frozen raw king prawns some with and others without the shell, Frozen live mussels, Frozen cockles, ramshorn/apple snails and the occasional small live crab. All frozen food it thawed in tank water for an hour or so.
At just over a year old she is approx 4-5 inch long body and another 2.5 inches of tail.
Is this stunted or slow growing as I expected from other articles for her to grow a lot more.
She is fed until she has a rounded belly most but not all days and her current size she will eat either 3 to 4 inch of king prawn or 5 mussels or 6-7 cockles or 10-12 fully grown ramshorn snails.
