My red tail catfish has grown 1.5 ft in two months he eats like a machine. I feed him raw prawns every night but the last two nights he has eaten much and tonight he ate nothing. He is still moving around a bit should I do anything or is this normal
Red tail catfish care
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Agree with Kno4te.
It's too little info to go by but taken at the face value I'd say you are overfeeding or your RTC suffers from thiaminase effect or both.
Overfeeding btw is said to be the leading cause of death of mature RTCs apart from accidents. Mature RTCs should be fed to a round tummy only 1-2 times a week, or if impossible (e.g. in a community), the same amount of food should be spread over 6 days a week giving one day of full fast a week.
IME, crustaceans and other foods rich in thiaminase (an enzyme that decomposes vitamin B1) should not account all together for more than ~1/3 of the diet and the rest should supply plenty of B1.
It's too little info to go by but taken at the face value I'd say you are overfeeding or your RTC suffers from thiaminase effect or both.
Overfeeding btw is said to be the leading cause of death of mature RTCs apart from accidents. Mature RTCs should be fed to a round tummy only 1-2 times a week, or if impossible (e.g. in a community), the same amount of food should be spread over 6 days a week giving one day of full fast a week.
IME, crustaceans and other foods rich in thiaminase (an enzyme that decomposes vitamin B1) should not account all together for more than ~1/3 of the diet and the rest should supply plenty of B1.
Thankyou for your response I'll try that I'm just trying to keep him feed so he doesn't eat my tigrinus but he hasn't every eaten live food but still worried
I hate to say this but your tig will become a very expensive meal for the RTC sooner or later, it's inevitable really. Doesn't matter if the tig is as long as the RTC or even longer, it'll still try and eat it.
Post some pics up if you can
No..... This is going to be extra expensive meal. Tigrinus is not that cheap. Men around 200$ wasted. Rtc will eat him 100%
Thicking time bomb
Thicking time bomb
The fact that your RTC has never eaten live food (to your best knowledge) is rather irrelevant because some RTCs are outright predatory, some are more predatory than others, and then there are some that just turn predatory suddenly, esp. more likely in smaller tanks, and their upbringing appears to have little to do with it. In other words, it is unpredictable with our current knowledge base.
I don't think you will find a single person on MFK to say it's a gamble they'd engage in. If a tig or any fish can be swallowed by an RTC, wholly or partially, lengthwise, it is in danger and tigs are too cherished by their keepers to risk it.
I don't think you will find a single person on MFK to say it's a gamble they'd engage in. If a tig or any fish can be swallowed by an RTC, wholly or partially, lengthwise, it is in danger and tigs are too cherished by their keepers to risk it.