Help with tig catfish

[JayC74]

Yes avoid prawns mussel cockle as they seam to have problems digesting it when below 10-12
First of all the TIG will start to have a puff looking body and the owner will think great it's putting on some size
The next stage is they start to get a lump build up in front of the dorsal fin
The next stage is they start swimming like mad even spinning
I have had tig still trying to eat when spinning just be for death

A slim tig is a healthy tig
Pumping them full of food so they are so fat like a rocking horse isn't good for them

People have stated that you need to drop food right in front of them this must tell you they wouldn't be fat like a rocking horse daily or twice per day like people feed them to grow them as fast as poss

It's a risk not worth taking feeding sea foods
Let's face it if you was told you may get hit by a car if you cross a freeway would you still cross it or use the under pass
I know what I would do


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There's countless cars on the freeway to avoid and there has been ever since I was born. You had just one tig that ate just frozen seafood that got a lump then started spinning and your gonna parallel the 2? Or did you have more tigs this happened to?
What if you combined massivores with the frozen seafood. Same results for tigs under 12inch?
So tigs that get handfed (or dropped right in the face) have a better chance at tig obesity? I had a strong powerhead (think of a treadmill) to combat this problem, haha

 

[TheBroc]

I have a 6" tig, first few weeks only live feeders. dropped in piece of silverside with a pvc pipe so it would be right in front of it and it ate it. been feeding silversides ever since. it wont eat pellets yet. not sure how to get it to, im sure with time it will just eat them.

 

[T1KARMANN]

There's countless cars on the freeway to avoid and there has been ever since I was born. You had just one tig that ate just frozen seafood that got a lump then started spinning and your gonna parallel the 2? Or did you have more tigs this happened to?
What if you combined massivores with the frozen seafood. Same results for tigs under 12inch?
So tigs that get handfed (or dropped right in the face) have a better chance at tig obesity? I had a strong powerhead (think of a treadmill) to combat this problem, haha

Actually I had 3 tigs die the same way within the space of 2 years
I then stopped feeding sea foods and this problem never happened again

The freeway was just a example if you just a chance of avoiding just one car from hitting you wouldn't you rather not take the risk
Buying any 3" wild caught fish is a gamble with any gamble it's better to shift the odds in your favour


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[JayC74]

Actually I had 3 tigs die the same way within the space of 2 years
I then stopped feeding sea foods and this problem never happened again

The freeway was just a example if you just a chance of avoiding just one car from hitting you wouldn't you rather not take the risk
Buying any 3" wild caught fish is a gamble with any gamble it's better to shift the odds in your favour


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I wonder if supplementing those 3tigs diet with a quality pellet ALONG WITH THE SEAFOOD might have changed their outcome

 

[T1KARMANN]

I wonder if supplementing those 3tigs diet with a quality pellet ALONG WITH THE SEAFOOD might have changed their outcome

A lot of people get lazy as I did and feed just mp
By feeding a mix of mp and pellets may help with digestion

But my advice has ALWAY been don't feed sea foods

Tigs grow so fast to 12" sure people can resist feeding sea foods for 10 months considering they will own that fish for 15 years plus surely it's no hardship


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[TheBroc]

I don't know if T1 Is right or not but I'm not gonna risk it. I fed it market shrimp once and it ate it right up. But if silversides are okay then it is just as easy to feed that as it is anything else. It would not be an experiment I'd be willing to try out.

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[JayC74]

I don't know if T1 Is right or not but I'm not gonna risk it. I fed it market shrimp once and it ate it right up. But if silversides are okay then it is just as easy to feed that as it is anything else. It would not be an experiment I'd be willing to try out.

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Tough to beat whole fish, awesome. If you try thawed seafood at any stage of his life, just stuff a few quality pellets in the fish flesh and all should be gd

 

[T1KARMANN]

Tough to beat whole fish, awesome. If you try thawed seafood at any stage of his life, just stuff a few quality pellets in the fish flesh and all should be gd

But if you avoid seafoods when the tig is young and only feed pellets then when it's older you won't need to stuff anything in anything

Tigs are very very easy to pellet train they normally go 14 day at max before taking them and hikari sinking carnivore are the best to get them started on

Mine eats what ever the other fish miss pellets prawn white bait and meal worms it never has that rocking horse shape like a said a slim tig is a healthy tig


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[JayC74]

I hear you T1. I just prefered them to take one big bite & engulf a large meal quick. Dropping in pellet after pellet to make sure he gets enough seemed to be a tedious routine & possible hazardous to my water quality. Your scavengers might be quick to mop up the uneaten, where my loaches & plecos will take too long to clean high protein pellets up...so a fat tig is unhealthy..but how bout a fat dat..your dat is far from lean. Is this unhealthy too?

 

[T1KARMANN]

I hear you T1. I just prefered them to take one big bite & engulf a large meal quick. Dropping in pellet after pellet to make sure he gets enough seemed to be a tedious routine & possible hazardous to my water quality. Your scavengers might be quick to mop up the uneaten, where my loaches & plecos will take too long to clean high protein pellets up...so a fat tig is unhealthy..but how bout a fat dat..your dat is far from lean. Is this unhealthy too?

Feeding is one of the best parts of fish keeping so what if it takes a bit longer

Some days my tig will get enough other days he will get a bit less surely that's how it would work in the wild

I have never spot fed my tig he needs to work for food if he didn't he would be a fat blue striped log in the corner


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