It looked like a perfect specimen, when I got it at 4-5" and grew it to 11" or so.Now it looks like this.
Is this tigrinus having a deformity
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It looked like a perfect specimen, when I got it at 4-5" and grew it to 11" or so.Now it looks like this.
These are pics like just a few months ago, I just don't get what changed, could it be diet?? 
I've never seen this before. The fish indeed is not looking right but the fact that a few months ago it looked fine is mind boggling.
Has anything else changed? Its behavior, appetite?
If it had other symptoms, such as no appetite, lethargy, that'd be one thing and maybe some guesses might get thrown around. If everything else is normal, I'd be at a complete loss.
Why do you say diet? What do you feed it?
Has anything else changed? Its behavior, appetite?
If it had other symptoms, such as no appetite, lethargy, that'd be one thing and maybe some guesses might get thrown around. If everything else is normal, I'd be at a complete loss.
Why do you say diet? What do you feed it?
Earlier it used to eat live shrimp as larger part of its diet, now I have cut it down and feed market Tilapia fillet more.
At the face value of what you said, it makes me uneasy.
That much of shrimp could have led to vitamin B1 deficiency in the tig through the action of high content of thiaminase in the shrimp.
The tilapia fillet, as any fillet, is largely devoid of vitamins and minerals too. It's pretty much nothing but protein. So it'd not help replenish B1, if the deficiency has started to set in or has set in.
The vitamin deficiency can lead to strange things, which, I fathom, may include muscular-skeletal deformations, such as you are seeing.
Just a thought. I could be wrong. But I'd try my hardest to give it as much B1 as possible and see if it makes a difference.
I have never seen him eat, I know he eats but the quantity I am unsure of.
He used to always hide earlier, now he has become a bit more brave and comes out and sits in the open.
What could it be, if say he did have a loss of appetite
When I say shrimp, it is not market prawn, this is macrobrachium rossenbergi, I used to get live, and the fish was in great shape all the while it ate these.
How can I add vitamin b1 to its diet.
The Tilapia I give is wild caught Tilapia, and not from farms, and the fillet is just not meat, I don't get the fish skinned before filleting, so there is skin.