Just recently transferred my tigers from a 300g community to a 110 spieces tank (trying to breed them). Ever since I moved them they seem to be a bit finicky on what they eat. They barely touch sinking carnivores, snob algae wafers and don't touch any pellets like nls, or tetra bits. But they go crazy for frozen blood worms like normal. All that I listed were part of their diet but seem to ignored. Hardly feed greens as they snob it too. Just wondering if this happened to anybody else?
finicky tiger SD's
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I had all my tiger sd eating pellets fine when I first bought them at 2" in a 55. They're in a 150 now and the first 3 weeks they wouldn't eat at all. They've recently randomly began to eat again like as if nothing happened. Maybe the sudden shift in surrounding makes them uneasy. How big is your shoal? I have 12
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They will probably settle back down dont spoil them with bloodworms in the interim... my group has been trying to spawn (or possibly spawning) in a community setting for a couple weeks now its pretty cool when the male gets fired up he gets this black beard marking on his face. Good Luck!
How large are your sd for them to show signs of breeding? I have a few that show two dark black spots by the gills and a few with one. Maybe that has to do with the sexing of the sd, but the two spotted ones far outnumber the single spotters
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Mine are between 4 and 6 inches... you can sex them by there anal fins at about three inches... from what i have seen only the males get the black spots. But when they are excited the black gets intense and covers a large portion of the face.
Below is a male an female... male on the left... see how his anal fin has a bump and is greyish.. and the females is straight and red... thats it.
Below is a male an female... male on the left... see how his anal fin has a bump and is greyish.. and the females is straight and red... thats it.
Beautiful looking pair! Seems like in my case I have a large amount of males compared to females, none of mine are at the 6" mark but I believe my two largest ones are 4.5" I've prob got a few more years to go before they exhibit any mating behavior. Would be awesome to get a successful spawn
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I got 9 and it's been almost 2 weeks that I transferred them. They seem alittle more interested in food but nothing like how they were in the 300. It's just getting me concerned because they were like garbage disposals lol.
I know exactly what you mean! It's hard to feed my loaches because these guys are onto the food once I drop it, which is exactly why I didn't worry too much because I knew sooner or later they'd be starving again and before I knew it they were hounding down pellets from their little starvation period
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Mine eat pretty much anything but I lean towards the veggie side 80% of the time. Feed seewead and lettuce in a veggie clip, spirulina pellets and flake as the base foods. NLS, Tetra floating supplemented in between.
I got a good shot of the black beard I was talking about on males
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