My Big IT .before and after

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Great colour & growth Ade? Did you have to starve it? My 8" IT just won't touch pellers despite starving it for weeks :(

Is that also a FRT I see :naughty:
 
Alright robroy!
I didn't really think of starving the big IT. I ran out of prawns, didn't buy any more and just fed hikari. After 2-3 weeks, he just started hammering pellets.
He has such bulk , I reckon he could go 10 weeks with no food!!!! Easy.
It helps if you have a few kg of pellets, and if other fish eat pellets.

How long u starved your IT?
Are you sure you didn't throw a few prawns in just incase..... Sometimes I do this and it's back to square 1 all over again. Best way is to run out of prawns. The frt came as x- change... A favour from a friend. But I had to say bye to my 24/7 stable: nine inch NTT and 7 inch NGT...
 
Ade;4346905; said:
Alright robroy!
I didn't really think of starving the big IT. I ran out of prawns, didn't buy any more and just fed hikari. After 2-3 weeks, he just started hammering pellets.
He has such bulk , I reckon he could go 10 weeks with no food!!!! Easy.
It helps if you have a few kg of pellets, and if other fish eat pellets.

How long u starved your IT?
Are you sure you didn't throw a few prawns in just incase..... Sometimes I do this and it's back to square 1 all over again. Best way is to run out of prawns. The frt came as x- change... A favour from a friend. But I had to say bye to my 24/7 stable: nine inch NTT and 7 inch NGT...
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I tried literally for weeks-5 or more. Both him and my NGT refused to budge. The NGT in particular got extremely thin so I had to feed some prawn as I thought I'd lose him.

I stopped feeding prawn to the Indo as he'd flash like mad after. I now
feed him earthworms only. Will try again with both but think I'm ever going to succeed :nilly:
Rob
 
Awesome! Yeah...my ITs won't take anything but live feeders (obviously) or frozen ghost shrimp.:irked: Still trying to get them to take pellets.
 
Sometimes rob, some tigers are hard to convert as u have experienced. I gave up trying to convert an old thinbar. Another IT is on week 3 . He gulped an algae wafer than spat it out.

If u have a group with most eating pellets you'll tend to forget about the fussy ones, or atleast stop focusing on that one fish as u convert all the others.
As a rule, once sunken belly and looking waiter thin, I feed prawns again for few days then convert again.
Was talking to T1, even one of his tigers after 8 weeks or more of starving...... Would not eat pellets, so he had he to feed prawn as it was looking well thin!!. Just use judgement (as u did with your ngt) and feed frozen till he's ready to convert again.
 
Ade;4347144; said:
Sometimes rob, some tigers are hard to convert as u have experienced. I gave up trying to convert an old thinbar. Another IT is on week 3 . He gulped an algae wafer than spat it out.

If u have a group with most eating pellets you'll tend to forget about the fussy ones, or atleast stop focusing on that one fish as u convert all the others.
As a rule, once sunken belly and looking waiter thin, I feed prawns again for few days then convert again.
Was talking to T1, even one of his tigers after 8 weeks or more of starving...... Would not eat pellets, so he had he to feed prawn as it was looking well thin!!. Just use judgement (as u did with your ngt) and feed frozen till he's ready to convert again.
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aha! So T1 doesn't follow the 'eat or die' maxim?! :ROFL:
 
Lol..... As I mentioned, when it has big sunken belly and looks waifer thin, That's when I give in for a couple of days , then I starve it again.
I've only had 1 ngt that got that bad after 7 weeks. So I Fed prawn for 2 days, then Starved again and a day later started eating pellets.
 
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