Ok, I had originally planned to update the progress of my growing little buggers about just once a month, but today when I went to feed them I realized that the red snakeskins have gotten huge and I just had to snap some quick pics of them swimming around with my 8" golden sunshine.
So these red guys were 3" in July. And the Lollipop in the pics was about 2.75" if I crossed my eyes and pulled on his tail a bit. (He was the smallest of the entire group) Ok ok, he was closer to 2.5" than 2.75".
Now the older group of grow outs is officially 6" and 2 are 6.5". They still have another year of growing to do, so they hopefully will make it to at least 7". Only one of the older group wanted to pose for pics today. The female RC, one of the leopards and the yellow checkerboard were all foraging in the sword plant for leftover blackworms.
Excuse the mess in the tank. I pulled EVERYTHING yesterday in order to do my weekly huge scrub down and I was too tired to be bothered with arranging things nicely when I plopped the plants and driftwood back in. Oh and I usually hide the airline tubing, or at least straighten it out and move it to the corners so that it doesn't show. Uh huh, might get the tank looking pretty again before scrub down day next Sunday. LOL
The discus. I'm thinking the red snakeskins must be pushing 7", which means that they grew an inch in under a month! You can measure them by comparing to the 6" leopard in the pics. And the Lollipop is definitely well over 6" now.
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I'm pretty excited to see the sudden growth spurt! These guys are still SO young and have a lot more growing to do.