P5 Growth Rate - MABF

[Sublime]

P5 is a beast. Seems we have some comparison - my male is approximately the same size and age as p5 (Around 4-5 months old; 5-6" svl). This is some great documented growth compared to your others. I kind of would of liked to do this, but I didn't pick my guy up as small as yours was.

I'm curious as to what p5's regimen that he gets (diet, and how often)?

[Mikey]

I'm curious as to what p5's regimen that he gets (diet, and how often)?

Thats classified information....


just joking, depending upon his meal I give him different amounts of days to digest. From quarter size he was fed a diet of only earth worms daily. As he grew I alternated between earthworms and talapia, still feeding daily. When he was to the size that he could polish off a full can ( 20 worms) by him self, I switched him to talapia only as a staple every day in a half or 36 hours ( I know I know, pathetic lol). As of a few weeks ago I give him 2-3 days to digest, and feed rodents every 3-4 weeks. I pay good attention to his bowel movements because they smell bad lol so I can gage when he needs food. All of my MABF's are very food agressive, my females are much more passive.

Hope that helps !

and thanks for the kind words

[Sublime]

Haha. Tilapia, that's interesting. Do you breed them or buy them frozen? That's what I do with my male - give him 2 days to digest. Fed him first frozen-thawed hopper mouse about a month ago, but not going to feed him another one for a couple of months. Interesting that the females aren't voracious, but that makes sense between the differentiation.

Right now my males' staple diet is just large crickets and large night crawlers in abundance with a mouse every couple of months.

Thanks!

Take it easy,

Mark