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How big can a map fish grow? What can it be fed to grow fast?

Lydia Rodarte-Quayle
2021-04-15 02:56:15
Captive fish can grow to about 30 centimeters, but their life span is relatively short, only 4-6 years. Wild map fish can grow to about 25 centimeters, but they can live for about 10 years. The growth rate of map fish is the fastest in the juvenile stage. In order to make them grow rapidly, young fish can be fed with more beef heart, live loach, shrimp and other foods, and then fed with synthetic feed, which can promote their growth and development.
How big can a map fish grow? What can it be fed to grow fast?

1. How big

can the map fish grow? The wild map fish can grow to 25 centimeters, and the artificial map fish can grow to 30 centimeters. Although the wild fish are not as large as those in captivity, their body color and size are more colorful than those in captivity. Moreover, the wild fish can live for 10 years, while the captive fish can only live for 4-6 years.

If you want to make the map fish grow fast, first of all, you should feed more high-nutrition and high-protein foods in the young fish period, such as beef heart, earthworm, loach, shrimp, etc. It is better to cut off the loach and feed it again to avoid scratching the viscera. Beef heart and shrimp can be broken up and frozen, and then cut into small pieces to thaw when they need to be fed. Although live bait can promote the growth and development of map fish, it also needs to be fed with artificial feed, because the nutrition of live bait is relatively single, feeding only one kind of food is easy to make map fish malnutrition.

3. How big does the map fish need? The

map fish is bigger. The fish tank should be decided according to their body length, and they should be given enough space to move. According to the body length of adult map fish, a map fish needs a tank of about 60 centimeters. If you raise two fish, you need a tank of 1 meter.

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