My 4-5" Tigrinus is here!!!! Pretty rough looking on arrival but doing ok. He has been on a diet of feeder guppies, I want him off live pronto. Can somebody give me a rundown of the protocol to get him eating non-live stuff like Krill?
Feeding a baby Tig??
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Simply starve him into eating what you give him.
This worked with my Aro and Im currently using this method with my Dat to get him on pellets with the occiasional feeder.
Its already been a week and my Dat is still holding out for some feeders! 
You can also add some nutrient garlic extract stuff that Delgado mentioned to make it more appealing.
In the end ya just gotta hold out longer than he does!
Good Luck!!!
This worked with my Aro and Im currently using this method with my Dat to get him on pellets with the occiasional feeder.
Its already been a week and my Dat is still holding out for some feeders! You can also add some nutrient garlic extract stuff that Delgado mentioned to make it more appealing.In the end ya just gotta hold out longer than he does!
Good Luck!!!
if i will u, i will pump that guy up to around 5 inch b4 i change his diet. coz young monster are better off with live food. and live food usually pump up faster.
once it hit around 5 inch, i will starve him for around 3 days b4 i start to feed him on dry food. normally it takes abt 1 week to successfully change their diet.
(BTW tat is the process i took to train my rays and dats to feed on MP as well as training my endy to feed on pellets. dun know if it will work on ur tig)
once it hit around 5 inch, i will starve him for around 3 days b4 i start to feed him on dry food. normally it takes abt 1 week to successfully change their diet.
(BTW tat is the process i took to train my rays and dats to feed on MP as well as training my endy to feed on pellets. dun know if it will work on ur tig)
use feeding prongs and hit his caudle fin... those long lyre's will sence protein and they will turn around and snap at what ever is there. you can also use garlic extract to trigger feeding..
Just try some frozen/thawed krill or frozen/thawed bloodworms. You may very well be surprised. If it doesn't take it, I'd give it at least a week or so before you even consider trying to change its diet. The fish is stressed enough as it is from the trip; don't add anymore needless stress. The tigrinus I had took krill immediately after being on a diet of (if I remember right) live guppies.
from what all my friends have done w their baby tigs...
they just leave them in breeder cages filled with quarantined feeder fish.
the tig will naturally have a buffet during nocturnal hrs.
they just leave them in breeder cages filled with quarantined feeder fish.
the tig will naturally have a buffet during nocturnal hrs.
my tig started eating choped up market prawns (the kind we eat, just defrost, peel the shells and chop them up).
and the usualy feeder fishes if he manages to catch them, when i feed my rays. =)
yap, market prawns as main diet is not so hard for ur pockets..
and the usualy feeder fishes if he manages to catch them, when i feed my rays. =)
yap, market prawns as main diet is not so hard for ur pockets..