Are melanoids always tiny?

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They seem to grow slower too. Or is that just me?
 
I seem to have a couple that are slower growers than the others.
 
Pretty sure all my brown babies are wilds to I'm no help here.. Interestingly enough though.. it seems all my wilds are growing the fastest! Oh and my goldens eat the most and have fat tummys lol :p
 
ha thats the same with mine, the wild types are longer but the golden ones are fatter!

Yeah they do seem to grow slower, i wonder if they reach a smaller size also?
 
Ive only got 17 babies left(i sold 3..go....me) but 14 of them are roughly the same size and then the other three are noteably smaller but they have the longest cutest red gills and they are also the lighter coloured ones in the group.
 
My last batch (165ish babies) the wilds were the fastest growers but the melanoids weren't far behind them.

What's funny is the hypomelanistic wilds and Hypomelanistic melanoids grew at about the same rate as each other but were slower than their 'normal' siblings

All are much the same size now though. I do have one super big Wild and a few 'runts' but otherwise they are pretty much even now that their a bit over 7 months old.
 
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