Does feeding light risk stunting growth

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This is more out of curiosity, I do feed a bit light, but to clarify my fish are perfectly healthy, but could feeding light cause fish to not grow to their full size potential? I don’t mean starving them just lightly feeding. I know fish don’t need a ton of food and are much easier to overfeed than to underfeed. But would a heavily fed tank have more growth potential than one that is more conservatively?
 
Amount of food and free space both contribute
 
Smaller amounts several times a day is better then one big meal.
 

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