Ngt Dead

[D93ng]

For those who say a fish will not starve its self to death my ngt died from not eating for 7 plus months. I had it with 3 indos and 1 ntt all smashing pellets everyday.

 

[zoohouse]

I don't know who's advice you were following but starving a fish for 7months straight, that would be the result I would of expected. I personally would never starve a fish more than a few weeks.

 

[predatorkeeper87]

For those who say a fish will not starve its self to death my ngt died from not eating for 7 plus months. I had it with 3 indos and 1 ntt all smashing pellets everyday.

I feel like there was something else going on then....no animal just starves to death without some underlying factor...and to let it go 7 months wasn't a wise idea regardless. 1 month max before you start exploring new options....

 

[Yuki Rihwa]

My guess he wanted to get his fish off live feeder. I ran into this problem years ago when I and my fish trying to show whose the boss game, I don't want to feed it live and it refused to eat prawn or anything than live feeders, Its died 6 weeks later!

 

[krichardson]

I don't know who's advice you were following but starving a fish for 7months straight, that would be the result I would of expected. I personally would never starve a fish more than a few weeks.

Yes,I went through the same thing with a NGT years ago when I first learned of starvation training.I did not starve mine for nearly that long but I gave it absolutely nothing to eat with no break and restart as I did not know any better at the time.

 

[predatorkeeper87]

does no one else think maybe the fish was stressed as well? On top of not being given food it was used to maybe the competition in a new environment caused it to not eat vs. maybe had this been done 1 on 1 in a separate tank?

 

[krichardson]

does no one else think maybe the fish was stressed as well? On top of not being given food it was used to maybe the competition in a new environment caused it to not eat vs. maybe had this been done 1 on 1 in a separate tank?

Those are good points that can't be ruled out.

 

[D93ng]

Fish was healthy and eating when got it.Feed it tilapia for a month before I starved it to try to get it on pellets it never broke. Ngt was never stressed out and hiding, it was always out and swimming not like my ntt and indos

 

[jsodwi]

Who told you to starve a fish for 7 months? I would never have followed that advice. A couple weeks at a time maybe

 

[eeJamBOYan]

7 months without food is..
Anyway surely some alarms would have been ringing early on for you to take action and go for a different route.

Quite surprised that your NGt could survive that long regardless of the temptation seeing his tankmates hitting those pellets day in day out..