new frontosa cichlids?? ?
today i purchased 2 frontosa cichlids they are like 1 inch long..i was wondering if i put them in my 10 gal tank will they grow? or should i put them in my 29 gal tank? becuhz i heard that fish only get as big as as the tank is. and yea i heard it was bad for frontosas to eat worms..is ther anything else i can feed them except flakes?
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the how big your fish get is a myth and put them in the 10 gallon because you dont want your tank to be too big or too small.
put them in the 29 for now but they can grow 7-9'' and when it does it'll be best to be in a bigger tank, 2 in a 29 is really pushing it. "a fish can only grow as big as the tank" is somewhat true but completely idiotic, what it means is if the fish is in a tank to small for its size it'll be stunted, its body wont continue to grow but its internal organs will, killing it. Frontosas are mainly carnivorous, worms are perfectly fine, you can also feed them (live, freeze dried or frozen) stuff like brine shrimp, blood worms, krill; or you can feed them cichlid pellets; or if you wanted you could breed guppies in the 10gal and feed them that
Put them in 29 gallon. U will have to get a bigger tank cos they grow up to 40cm(15inch). Did you know they only grow about 1 or 2 inch per year? i have my (9inchs) Frontosa and he only grow few inch per year
in the event that they're all nevertheless small specific. Fronts do in comparison to truly energetic tank friends. So in case you upload all of them on a similar time it is going to provide the fronts time to get use to how energetic the fish are. you in addition to mght desire a particularly large tank for the reason that fronts get 15 inches.