QUOTE(s98432512 @ Aug 3 2009, 12:22 AM)
hi rideon... i have tried that experiemnt myself before..
personally these are my findings from my research ...
when the afs scorpling are house together .. they grew the fastest but the lag between the scopling molthing were abt one month different from the 1st scopling molting and the last scorpling molting
this might be due to competition of food etc and the 1st to molt will be the boss.... to show the rest who is the boss
When afs scorpling are house own it own they tend to molt the slowest.. taking forever to molt .... with compare to afs scolping house together .. the different can different by almost 2 months,
my afs scolpings all molted and it is only after 1.5 - 2 months that my afs scorplings that own its own start to molt......one by one .. reasons were unknow........ even tot they were all from the same batch ...
i did not conduct any experiment housing the scopling with their mum as i believe that the mum will consume the little ones when it start to be hungry .. it juz the matter of when it start hungry ....
do take note on tat ..

Nice info...I think the reason is bcos when house 2gether,every1 is competing to get the food.So in order to survive frm this,they hav to grow faster to bcome bigger and stronger.Plus,they dun wan to bcome food to others,so they hav to grow faster.
When housing alone,they actually didnt knw about the "competition" and nothing is competing to get the food frm them.Hence,they just relax and enjoy the food without worries and molt when they like to.
But i think those house alone splings molt period is the normal 1 for the sp. as they din try to grow faster
Just my tots
This post has been edited by HyourinMaru: Aug 3 2009, 02:22 AM