thin bar dats (NTT i think??)

[cichlid2006]

i am looking to getting a thin bar Dat i think its a NTT but correct me if im wrong guys.
i have found a juvenile for about £30 @ 10cm or so.
there seems to be various info about feedign them, ie they only eat live food, difficult to get eating dead food.
there is nothing about pellets however.
i feed all my fish tetra prima as its good quality and will move to larger pellets as they get bigger, probably hikari. they also get frozen bloodworm every night. i dont feed daphnia/frozen mix/small meat cubes as most goes up my 2 external filters.
do NTT take pellets, will they take froxen bloodworm, will they eat live gut loaded crickets and are they easy to convert to pellets?

thanks guys

 

[cambo01]

wharf?

 

[cichlid2006]

do you mean wharf aquatics??
if so then no not there from online but im sure my lfs can get them.

 

[jcardona1]

For what its worth, I have an IT that I feed cut up pieces of market shrimp. he wont even touch the pellets. Mine is very picky...

 

[TCZeli]

Yes, they can be trained to take pellets. All my NTT's are on them. They should also take bloodworms with no problem. Turn your filters off during feedings and you shouldn't have a problem witht he intakes.

 

[robroy]

where online?

 

[cichlid2006]

tropicalfishtoyourdoor.co.uk then go to WILDWOODS. a massive selection of exotics and rare livestock.
it had occured to me about switching my filters off but i was worried about my bio media, silly i know as 5-10 mins wont do any harm but i worry about my fish a lot. i care maybe a bit too much.
is a water change ok @ 30-50% 1-2 times a week depending on what they have been fed. when i did live insects i did twice due to more waste. no RO water only treated tap water at ph 7.7-7.9. and 28 degrees C due to my uaru.
thanks for the advice.

 

[T1KARMANN]

yes wildwoods have loads i have seen them

they are very hard to get feeding

DO NOT FEED THEM LIVE FEEDERS

the 2nd day after you get the tiger feed it river shrimp as thats what wildwoods would have been feeding

then after that NO MORE LIVE FOODS if you keep giving in feeding live you will never get it feeding dead foods

i got a thin bar from wildwood the same sort of size about 6 months ago i fed on day 2 with river shrimp then offered frozen prawn daily i didnt defrost the prawn i broke it into small bite size bits and throw it in frozen it will sink slower this way as tigers dont seam to like takeing food from the floor

you have to be firm it can take up to 1 month without food for the tiger to start eatting dead food

the longest it has taken me to get a thin bar to eat dead food was 6 weeks

the rules in my TANK ARE EAT OR DIE i have never had a fish die from starvation and i do this rule with every fish no matter how much they cost it would take a foolish fish who will starve to death when their is food in front of him

my kids dont like carrots but im dam sure if i didnt feed them for a week they would eat them

 

[Loubard]

the rules in my TANK ARE EAT OR DIE i have never had a fish die from starvation and i do this rule with every fish no matter how much they cost it would take a foolish fish who will starve to death when their is food in front of him

I agree with this! I have gotten redtail payara, barracuda's, ntt and ngt on shrimp without much problems by just starving them. Get some flesh on them with live and then only offer shrimp or simular.

 

[robroy]

the 2 Ntt I got from Wildwoods I didn't bother at all with any live foods-they ate pieces of frozen prawn from day 2. They eat pieces of frozen prawn, frozen Krill (sp. superba-the large krill) and lancefish now. They have big mouths and can swallow more than what you think.