Stunted Fish Identification Options

[olddog]

To help members identify a potentially stunted fish I must confess to using an old trick of the trade I learned from wholesalers from my years as a LFS trader.

The eye to head ratio gives the game away. I used to sell quite a few discus in those days. Price was often gauged by the centimetre. Now take a brood of fish, some will grow big others will be stunted. One strange phenomenon is that the eye size remains equal in each age group relative to age irrispective of other size.

So the trick of the trade is to take the runts from say the four centimetre groups and sell them in the two centimetre section. The customer gets a two centimetre fish at the two centimetre price. This doesn’t sound too bad a deal size for price size ratio, but these fish never develop full potential.

So how do you not get sold a runt. Easy look at the eye to head ratio. Big eye small fish ratio = runt. Same general rule for all types of fish.

Hope there are no old ex customers are reading this!!!!!!! Olddog will have his tail cut off.

Forrest (baddog).