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Jack Dempsey
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I am Very interested in getting a baby tsn. I need to know, I have a 150 with a few other SA cichlids. The one i am planning on buying is 3" I am NOT going to power feed this fish. On a NORMAL diet how long can it stay in the 150?

Please note I will be Growing it out in a 29 gallon until it is big enough to go into the 150. maby 6"




I need Responses ASAP the lfs is holding the fish for me:)



Dont get mad if it gets too big it will be going in my 475 pbass tank.
If it could stay in the 150 for life that would be great.
 
Your going to get all kinds of answers, and most will say a 150 is to small, But from my experiences with TSN's i'm gonna say 2 years ??? The largest TSN i ever grew was 32" and that was in a 1800 gallon indoor pond. It took about 3 years to do so. I have a 150 wide tank in my classroom at school "i'm a teacher" and we had a RTC and TSN together for over 3 years. Both were about 26-28" when a weekend power outage killed them. I'm a very light feeder only feeding 2-3 times a week. Go buy em and have some fun.

JMO

bob
 
I would say 1-1.5 years. That is depending on hiw wide your tank is. Also there is no way to tell how fast they are going to grow...Catfish grow at all different rates and I have hear about 3-18" in just 10 months or like mine it grew about 1" a month.

Chad
 
What is your idea of power feeding? Diet can drastically alter growth rates. I would say, for a small fish like that, once every other forenight is a good baseline to work off of. At that rate, I've seen young fish grow to 10"-11" in about a year, maybe more.
 
As great as a tsn is, why keep a fish that you know won't eventually fit your tank when there are perfectly good alternatives in the Pimelodidae family.

I have a 200g with a Sorubim lima and a Hemisorubim platyrhynchos that will both be fine for life in my tank and are both beautiful predatory fish. surely a better alternative?
 
I have recieved the fish and he will be growing out in my 29 gallon. When he is big enough he will be put in my 150 and eventually into my 450. Now my question is he is around 3 inches and i want to get him off live food the lfs said he ate krill but i have not seen him eat yet what is the best thing to feed these young fish?
 
I have a 5" guy and he wont eat anything buy rosies or danios. I've tried smelts,shrimp and every kind of pellet with no luck.....yet. He also eats garden worms/bloodworms but none can ever get to the bottom with all the other fish. He's a true hunter.... but he'll get the hint when he runs out of danios :D

Good luck, and let me know if you stumble upon something he'll eat.


bob
 
Starve him for a week+ then drop some pieces of shrimp in there. Never seen any kind of catfish refuse any kind of food! If he doesn't take to that tie the piece of shrimp loosley onto a piece of thread (very thin) and jig it infront of him. I used this with my pickerel and it worked. If I can get a pickerel to eat shrimp YOU can get a RTC to eat anything.

Chad
 
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