How To Speed Up An Oscar Fish's Growth Rate?

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Piicklez

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I have these two youtube videos:
no.1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzIH3rNC8zM
no.2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkOzwxum0-Y
If you could please look at the two videos ans tell me if my oscars growth rate is correct, because reports of 1 inch per month are frankly more like 1 inch per 3 months. I got the oscar when it was about 4 inches and its now about 6.5 ish. Its growth rate seems to be taking forever, and FYI the oscar in video no.2 was bought already that size so icant see from experience. I do the water change every week and the oscar eats hikary? pellets. If you see this as a slow growth rate, how can i speed it up? Cheers.
 
nightcrawlers... as many as it'll eat... along w/ a better pellet. imo Hikari is filler food. NLS, or Omega One are both better. Genertics also play a role... and you can not do to many water changes... I would do 50% 2x a week at least, if not more. Keeping your water quality as pristine as possible.. and nitrate as low as possible...
 
Good food, Clean water, Large tank, & Excellent filtration.
 
what they said, with exception to the hikari comment. you can also feed live or freeze dried crickets. lotsa protein in crickets.
 
Absolutely tank size, clean warm water and quality food. My baby oscar Brick has gone from 2 inches to 2 3/4 inches in less than 2 weeks! More amazing is that he's rapidly growing tall as well as thick...about 1 1/4" not including fins. He shares a 225 with my large blood parrot Kong. Gets 6 small meals a day spaced out. Peas, bug bites, spirulina and cichlid delight pellets, freeze dried bloodworms soaked. Swimming a large tank is definitely developing his thickness. Muscular little plug. :cool-1:
 
To me the most important growth factor is water changes, if you change 30 % of the tank water once per week, it will grow much slower than if you change 50% twice per week, or faster if you change 80% every other day.
All cichlids produce nitrate and hormones that can inhibit growth, the only realistic way to get rid of those compounds is by doing water changes.
 
duanes said:
To me the most important growth factor is water changes, if you change 30 % of the tank water once per week, it will grow much slower than if you change 50% twice per week, or faster if you change 80% every other day.
All cichlids produce nitrate and hormones that can inhibit growth, the only realistic way to get rid of those compounds is by doing water changes.
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Would you say some of that is related to the volume of the tank? I often wondered if for example changing out 30% of a 300 is the equivalent of changing 50% of a 150 as far as growth. Would be interesting if someone had test data.
 
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