Help with tig catfish

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T1KARMANN said:
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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Mmmmm.... Ive had my tigs starving for 7 days now and still not eating sinking massivore. Hopefully they both start to eat in the next 7 days lol.
Beefed them up for 2 weeks in my tank and now its pellet training time.

Question to all the experts... Ive recently heard of a technique that bothers the crap out of me but its a way to get a stubborn fish to start eating pellets "according to them." The technique was to pull the fish "like a tigrinus or other catfish" for this matter out of the water, and shove 1-2 pellets down its mouth. Then toss it back in the tank. If it spits them out once in the tank. Repeat the process. Has anyone heard of this? I was shocked because i figured the stress alone would kill the fish.


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Wow that doesn't even sound like a good idea at all. In time the tig will eat pellets on its own.

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robnin2002 said:
Mmmmm.... Ive had my tigs starving for 7 days now and still not eating sinking massivore. Hopefully they both start to eat in the next 7 days lol.
Beefed them up for 2 weeks in my tank and now its pellet training time.

Question to all the experts... Ive recently heard of a technique that bothers the crap out of me but its a way to get a stubborn fish to start eating pellets "according to them." The technique was to pull the fish "like a tigrinus or other catfish" for this matter out of the water, and shove 1-2 pellets down its mouth. Then toss it back in the tank. If it spits them out once in the tank. Repeat the process. Has anyone heard of this? I was shocked because i figured the stress alone would kill the fish.


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I wouldn't do that if someone down that to me I would be scared of pellets the rest of my life

You need to drop pellets real close to them as late in the night as you can 2am is good

10-14 days is braking point and I wouldn't class that as hard to brake


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robnin2002 said:
Mmmmm.... Ive had my tigs starving for 7 days now and still not eating sinking massivore. Hopefully they both start to eat in the next 7 days lol.
Beefed them up for 2 weeks in my tank and now its pellet training time.

Question to all the experts... Ive recently heard of a technique that bothers the crap out of me but its a way to get a stubborn fish to start eating pellets "according to them." The technique was to pull the fish "like a tigrinus or other catfish" for this matter out of the water, and shove 1-2 pellets down its mouth. Then toss it back in the tank. If it spits them out once in the tank. Repeat the process. Has anyone heard of this? I was shocked because i figured the stress alone would kill the fish.


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Nope, but they do that to snakes, and I have seen it! @.@
 
robnin2002 said:
Question to all the experts... Ive recently heard of a technique that bothers the crap out of me but its a way to get a stubborn fish to start eating pellets "according to them." The technique was to pull the fish "like a tigrinus or other catfish" for this matter out of the water, and shove 1-2 pellets down its mouth. Then toss it back in the tank. If it spits them out once in the tank. Repeat the process. Has anyone heard of this? I was shocked because i figured the stress alone would kill the fish.
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It doesn't have to be expert to find out the answer to your question. You could find the answer by yourself. Just put whoever told you that method flat on the ground, shove 1-2 hamburgers down his mouth, then let him free. If he spits them out, repeat the process...
 
jlnguyen74 said:
It doesn't have to be expert to find out the answer to your question. You could find the answer by yourself. Just put whoever told you that method flat on the ground, shove 1-2 hamburgers down his mouth, then let him free. If he spits them out, repeat the process...
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Gotta love that answer ahahha.
Yeah i just figured maybe it was a technique that i had t heard of or some old trick trick known only to the"old school" people lol


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I would figure the fish to be dead in a day or two with that method haha

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I grew a tig up from 4 to 12" within 7 months. I fed it feeder guppies, blood worms and mysis shrimp. Once it got to 8 ", I added it to my main tank, 350 gal with a my other fish. He then started to eat cut squid rings as well. He did great with that and was growing up nicely. Then I aquired a 16" ornate and once I added him, my tig was never the same. He would sit right next to the tig and im sure he basically made the tig uncomfortable and he started to slow down on eating til he basically stopped. I tried saving him, isolated him in his own tank, noting worked and he slowly deteriorated and that was that. Im getting another one in two days that I will do very differently with. That damn bichir is gone and ive gotten rid of some of the less impressive animals so now things will hopefully be better. It sux to loose one that u have watched grow up but s#@t happens. Lesson learned, but as far as seafood gose, Silver sides are a saltwater fish, still seafood. I think if u over do it or dont rinse the food off enough, u have a greater amout of salt in the food. I rinse the crap out of whatever I feed them as far as frozen food gose. IMO... all fish need a variety of foods, we dont eat steak all day every day, we eat a variety of foods so should fish.

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REDTAIL1928 said:
I grew a tig up from 4 to 12" within 7 months. I fed it feeder guppies, blood worms and mysis shrimp. Once it got to 8 ", I added it to my main tank, 350 gal with a my other fish. He then started to eat cut squid rings as well. He did great with that and was growing up nicely. Then I aquired a 16" ornate and once I added him, my tig was never the same. He would sit right next to the tig and im sure he basically made the tig uncomfortable and he started to slow down on eating til he basically stopped. I tried saving him, isolated him in his own tank, noting worked and he slowly deteriorated and that was that. Im getting another one in two days that I will do very differently with. That damn bichir is gone and ive gotten rid of some of the less impressive animals so now things will hopefully be better. It sux to loose one that u have watched grow up but s#@t happens. Lesson learned, but as far as seafood gose, Silver sides are a saltwater fish, still seafood. I think if u over do it or dont rinse the food off enough, u have a greater amout of salt in the food. I rinse the crap out of whatever I feed them as far as frozen food gose. IMO... all fish need a variety of foods, we dont eat steak all day every day, we eat a variety of foods so should fish.

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Or it could have been the addition of squid before it got past 12"

Just something to think about with your next one no seafoods

I have seen many tigs kept with polys with no issues


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