I Hear This Question A Lot..

"What should I feed my tsn?"

When I got mine at 2" I fed it guppies and hikari sinking carnivore pellets cut into smaller peices. As it grew larger to about 4" I fed it just hikari sinking carnivore pellets. When it hit about 7-9" I was feeding hikari sinking carnivore pellets, algae wafers(they were for the pleco, but my tsn ate them). When it hit about 12-14" I was feeding market shrimp, hikari sinking carnivore pellets and algae wafers. When it was about 15-17" I was feeding Tilapia/catfish/croaker fillets cut into peices, hikari massivore delite, crayfish, tadpoles, night crawlers and market shrimp. At it's current size of about 20-21" I am feeding hikari massivore delite, fish fillets, crayfish, night crawlers and tadpoles.

This may be to expensive for your budget. It was expensive for mine. Thats why I started buying market shrimp and what ever fish fillet was on sale at my local grocery store. The tilapia fillets were only like $2.99 a pound so you buy a bunch and your set for a week. Tiger Shovelnose love the fish fillets just cut them so they can get it in their mouths. Tiger Shovelnose also love Night crawlers they are only about $2.50 for 24 night crawlers at wal mart. Just don't feed too much or it will regurgitate like any big cat.

And if you want your tsn to grow faster my recomendation is clean water, good size tank and power feeding(feeding everyday). That is how mine is 20-21" in a little over a year.

Hope this helps out the fellow Tiger Shovelnose keepers out there.
-Pat

I think big cats go on periods of fasting because either their tank water is bad or it's just too small.

AwolAngler;874824; said:

Well the also live 20+ years. And al ot of people say that keeping the fish overstuffed all the time isn't good for it's digestive track...

But yea what to feed a tsn or rtc might as well be a sticky... It's asked like every few days

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Thanks for the reply.

Everyone also asks what they should feed their rtcs and people reply anything. Well this isn't true. They will eat hotdogs, but they are not good for them. This is what I fed mine.

At 2" when I got my 2 rtcs I fed them hikari sinking carnivore pellets and guppies. At about 5-7" I fed hikari sinking carnivore pellets and cut up night crawlers. At 8-10" I fed hikari sinking carnivore pellets, night crawlers and algae wafers(again I was feeding the pleco). At about 11-15" I fed night crawlers, tilapia/catfish/croaker cut into peices, hikari sinking carnivore pellets, crayfish and tadpoles. At about 16-20" I fed him night crawlers, tilapia/catfish/croaker cut into peices, market shrimp, tadpoles, crayfish and hikai massivore delite.

Again the most cost effective way to feed your rtc is to buy a couple pounds of either shrimp or fish(which ever is on sale) and keep it in your freezer. When you want to use it let it sit out in room temp water until it thaws. And night crawlers from wal mart are cheap too and fill your fish up fast.

Remember these fish regurgitate real easily. My one rtc killed my NGT(New guinea datnoid) by regurgitating while I was at school I was pissed off at that rtc.

DON'T OVER FEED!!!!

I got rid of both of my rtcs because the one killed my NGT and the other got too big. So please everyone know what you are getting into when you get a south american rtc! They get massive.

Again hope this helps,
Pat

Thanks Allan