Gary:
Hi. I fully agree on what you said in your statement.I should
have ben more precise in my statement Eileens question was what was
the max. size for prae. and boes. and i gave my fish size. I should
have said the average size is around 2.5 in. Mine are probably
exceptional because of their diet for egg production.When i said 3-4
in. i was generalizing. I have never sen a praecox at 4 in.either.It
would be a fantastic fish though.
Except for my breeders I fed heavy for the first 2 months or
so and taper off to regular feeding 1-2 times a day since it would
be too expensive(since they eat like pigs)
I never have ben able to get my boes. to color up at 1 1/2
in. only a trace of color. Whats the secret? Ive had both color
var.syellow and orange/red but still no real color at a sm. size.
Im sorry that I gave the impression that i had 4 in.
praecoxbut i do have many 3 inchers though.5 in. boes. i still by
that size.
Regards
Hank
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> parin_iceyfist <parin_iceyfist at y...> wrote:
> --- In r_m_l at yahoogroups.com, "hank voss" <aatetras at y...> wrote:
>
> > Hi. Just getting caught up on the threads have been in
fla.My
> > praecox usually get to 3-4 in.the boes.5-6 in.ive sen larger
but
>
> Sorry, but what? M. praecox of 4 inches in size? That's more than
> 10cm's! That is flipping huge! :O
> I've never seen one larger than 8 cms (3 inch), and even that one
was
> larger than the rest. And boes of 6 inch (15cm)? I've only seen
> trifasciatas of that size. Largest boesemani I've seen was about
5,5
> inches but usually I see them at 4,5 to 5 inch.
>
> Looks like there's a lot of stunted growth in commercially bred
fish
> in Belgium then!
>
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