Housing small Tig's?

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regalt

regalt

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Possibly looking to get one 4" tig tonight but have a question.

Well the main one is where to house it, I have a 90gal tank with 2 10"-12" Imperial loaches, 3" Goldie pleco, and a 3" royal pleco, the tank is bare bottom with a few pieces of driftwood and filtered right now by two magnum 350's, also have a decent sized power head going.

The loaches very rarely come out and when they do it's for a split second just to get some food, do you think I would be safe to house him in there or better off putting it in a smaller tank till he's bigger?

I do have a 20 long with some tiny Dats and a 3/4" L46 also a 15 gal with another imperial loach that's about 4"-5", that I could possibly put him into I'm just afraid that he'd get ahold of the Dats and L46.

The tig is already eating pellets and frozen.

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Smart man. I'd keep the tig in the big tank in a breeder box or something, FYI.
 
Thank you that's one thing I was thinking of doing or just cutting off one side for it.

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If the tig is already eating pellets you are ahead of the game. There are much more experienced Tig keepers here as I have only owned one but from my experience, at a small size, they are not good hunters. I kept mine in a 120 gallon all by himself and tried to feed him every food under the sun to no avail. I finally just threw in about 100 rosie reds (he was about 2-3" at the time) and figured that sooner or later he would catch one or two. He ate them all but it took a long time. They grow very quickly and he is now about 8" or so (not counting the streamers) and just started eating pellets. If I were to do it all over again I would keep a baby one in a 20 long until it was eating pellets and grew to 8" or so. I need to get my guy to get to about 12" before I can put him in my big tank so now that he is eating pellets hopefully he his growth will speed up. I honestly feel that I hampered his growth when he was young by having him in too big of a tank and he couldn't get as much food as he would have if it was in a smaller tank. They are an absolutely beautiful catfish. Best of luck with him if you decide to get him.
 
regalt said:
Thank you that's one thing I was thinking of doing or just cutting off one side for it.

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This is the best option the water conditions are harder to keep spot on in a 20gal


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T1KARMANN said:
This is the best option the water conditions are harder to keep spot on in a 20gal

Yep that's the plan, just gotta swing by my parents on the way home to get some egg crate.

And I think imma get one, my birthday is next Saturday so why not get it now.


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Well got home and put in the bag to start acclimating him and get the divider put in and happen to notice it floating around:(.

Other than that I did come home with a few others, 10"-11"endeli, 10"-11" Lapradi, L091, L204, L090, and a L026.



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