Save a FATF from death/ Grow Out
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I'm glad you saved the little ATF
Thanks
I thinks the ATF at 65% well now, not bullet proof yet but getting there faster than I expect. I guess loosing weight is slower than gaining weight just like human
Great job man! I can't wait for the updates. You did a great job fattening him up
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He's gonna gain weight REALLY quick if he's been starved as long as we suspect. There was a study done not too long ago covering this for the people who do aquaculture. What they found was that if you feed your control group and your test group the same for three months, they'd grow the same. Then they'd continue to feed the control group as they were before but they starved the test group. As you'd expect, the control group grew faster than the test group. The surprise came when they started to feed the test group again: they grew much faster than the control group and eventually caught up in size to the control group, at which point they slowed down to match the growth rate.
Fish metabolisms are a fascinating thing.
Just for S&G, here's my boy, Billy Badass. He had a very hard time getting to eat anything other than live fish as well, with two near- death starvation periods. I got him on pellets just before I moved, but since I moved he refused to eat pellets again. After another month long starvation period, he started eating worms again. After a couple of weeks, he's still very thin, but he's starting to put on weight again. I love brevis, IMO they're the most badass looking tigerfish. Billy's about 6" or so.
Fish metabolisms are a fascinating thing.
Just for S&G, here's my boy, Billy Badass. He had a very hard time getting to eat anything other than live fish as well, with two near- death starvation periods. I got him on pellets just before I moved, but since I moved he refused to eat pellets again. After another month long starvation period, he started eating worms again. After a couple of weeks, he's still very thin, but he's starting to put on weight again. I love brevis, IMO they're the most badass looking tigerfish. Billy's about 6" or so.
I had plecos that take months to recover from starvation, this is crazy quick for this Brevis!
Thank bro
Thank man
He's gonna gain weight REALLY quick if he's been starved as long as we suspect. There was a study done not too long ago covering this for the people who do aquaculture. What they found was that if you feed your control group and your test group the same for three months, they'd grow the same. Then they'd continue to feed the control group as they were before but they starved the test group. As you'd expect, the control group grew faster than the test group. The surprise came when they started to feed the test group again: they grew much faster than the control group and eventually caught up in size to the control group, at which point they slowed down to match the growth rate.
Fish metabolisms are a fascinating thing.
Just for S&G, here's my boy, Billy Badass. He had a very hard time getting to eat anything other than live fish as well, with two near- death starvation periods. I got him on pellets just before I moved, but since I moved he refused to eat pellets again. After another month long starvation period, he started eating worms again. After a couple of weeks, he's still very thin, but he's starting to put on weight again. I love brevis, IMO they're the most badass looking tigerfish. Billy's about 6" or so.
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Thank for title correction Rob, I hope he not stunted but he is behind in growth from starvation. Reading the infos you posted he has a good chance to be grow normal. Rob your brevis looks bad ass man.
Thanks!
He's a little beast for sure. The first ATF that I've ever kept that has an attitude to match his teeth. I can't wait till he gets big so I can show people that GATF isn't the only true monster in the ATF group!
Check out this image of the heads of some roughly foot long fish to get my point. Batf matches or beats gatf in the beastly head department! Batf seems to take a while to grow into its head where as gatf starts out with a big head that seems to get smaller in relation to its body.
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Here's the same BATF from above compared to Max, each at about a foot long. It seems as though the BATF gives up some of the GATF's nifty tail for a bigger, nastier head.
^^^ brevis look puny when their small but look pure evil and thick when larger. Is brevis body mass thicker than Vatf and Tatf?
According to Brewster (1986), H. brevis has the thickest average size mass of all African tiger fish. In other words, pound for pound, it's the strongest and thickest.
Wanna see one at over two feet?
That's the only (known) big one in the history of the hobby. I plan to rectify that.
Interestingly enough, that fish got to be about the same size as the current world record fish in only five years. No other species of ATF even approaches world record size in an aquarium, let alone that quickly. This piece of info combined with the lack of angling that is done for this species (thanks to their being located in less than peaceful countries) indicates to me that the current 28 pound world record may in fact be quite a bit smaller than this species is capable of attaining.
