I've seen people give large tig cats shrimp but is it ok for tigs 6 inch or under? Saw a comment on a post awhile ago saying that at small age they have a problem digesting it. Then agen I had some one tell me he would eat my rocks and gravel too and np problems with that.
I think he will be fine. I'd probably not give him just the shrimp all the time as this is food high in thiaminase, all/most crustaceans are AFAIK (if someone knows better, please correct me). Try to give him a variety, fish pieces, sea foods, earthworms, pellets (if he takes them, like massivore).
I bought shrimp thinkin it would be a treat and only one of my cats eats it, the others spit it back out or ignore it and only want massivore haha. They do like tilapia though, and as monsterminis stated, its less than 5 bucks a lb which is a plus!
A very experienced Tig owner, T1, and someone who has had them since when they were new in the hobby claims that MP will eventually kill a Tig if fed when young. We had a discussion about this when I first got mine and researched all of the threads back to the beginning of MFK. I would not recommend it.
MP= market prawn = shrimp we buy at grocery to eat. I typed Tigrinus in the search function here. and read every single post except for marketplace back to the beginning of MFK. You won't do that in a couple hours, LOL. Then I asked him some questions in a private message to clarify questions I had.
hehe... in a nutshell iir... Thiamanese can/is high in them, and then most are treated with a preservative that isn't any better for us then it is our fish. I've read to many threads on "perfectly healthy adult fish" eating "exclusively shrimp/prawn and pellets" that suddenly die.... every one of these fish looked obese/bloated. Be it superstition or something we just haven't figured out yet since I started only feeding out shrimp every now and then and diversifying my diet w/ other things I haven't lost a fish due to feeding complications.... rodger I have been a huge advocate in the spiney eel forums to avoid prawns/shrimp as the staple diet and it seems I'm not the only one seeing such effects on those fish as well all but vanish after a few weeks/months of getting away from them... much fewer instances of bloat/prolapsed rectums/ect...
I have no scientific data to back this up but reading threw the threads over the years... you will piece together and learn a lot if your open to changing your oppinions on a lot of "fact"
