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Cheers for input guys, someone local to me was selling his tiger shovelnose for a good price and when I seen it I couldn’t resist . Any advice welcome check out my thread in cichla.

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Nice pick up. It's a good looking fish but it is also funny looking - its body is only a bit shorter than the length of its head. Could be a short body TSN. vincentwugwg vincentwugwg would know.
 
thebiggerthebetter said:
Nice pick up. It's a good looking fish but it is also funny looking - its body is only a bit shorter than the length of its head. Could be a short body TSN. vincentwugwg vincentwugwg would know.
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Was thinking the same thing
 
Short body tiger shovelnose I haven’t heard of this is this something people have bred into them to make them smaller.
 
Nice pickup. I love the TSN’s but I know that my 220 is too small to house them. That is why I went with a couple vulture cats. Even those might outgrow my tank and need rehomed at some point, but there is a chance they will be ok. I don’t feed heavily and their growth has slowed a lot since they hit 9-10”. My largest one is a little over 12” right now, and the other is right behind it. Here are a few pictures of them.

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If I ever have to rehome my vultures, I might try a TSN after that, since it has become apparent that the ones available in the hobby are all culls that will not reach a very large max size. Plus, my LFS gladly takes in large fish to rehome them into better equipped tanks, so I can always go that route if necessary.
 
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Btw, if you find that the TSN isn’t active enough for your liking, the vultures are very active. My pair swim around pretty much nonstop, and I know J jaws7777 has said his vulture has become very active as it grew larger. I still think the TSN is the best looking, in my opinion.
 
Fish Tank Travis said:
Nice pickup. I love the TSN’s but I know that my 220 is too small to house them. That is why I went with a couple vulture cats. Even those might outgrow my tank and need rehomed at some point, but there is a chance they will be ok. I don’t feed heavily and their growth has slowed a lot since they hit 9-10”. My largest one is a little over 12” right now, and the other is right behind it. Here are a few pictures of them.

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If I ever have to rehome my vultures, I might try a TSN after that, since it has become apparent that the ones available in the hobby are all culls that will not reach a very large max size. Plus, my LFS gladly takes in large fish to rehome them into better equipped tanks, so I can always go that route if necessary.
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Cheers for your input on your v cats, they look great by the way also the fire eel looks awesome ( miss mine now ) ye he is a bit shy at the moment but I suppose he’s new
 
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