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liontammer

liontammer

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i got a simple little question for ou guy no i dont have one but id like to get one in the futer but what i was wondering is most tigs i see have a standard strate striping on them but i have seen a few with a weird brake up stripe type pattern i was wondering if it was just the luck of the draw or is it a different region for how there pattern will tern out
 
Just like any and all fish some have different patterns.

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so it is more the luck of the draw then lol o well i dident know thay have tig hybrid's but then again a tsn is in the same family as a tig
 
jpcampbell123 said:
their are some to that have been crossed with redtails and shovelnoses i dont know if your fan of hybrid fish
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If you are talking about Pseudoplatystoma tigrinum http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/species.php?species_id=329, I understand. But we are talking about a Brachyplatystoma tigrinum http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/species.php?species_id=354, or so I think. If you really meant the latter, can you, please, provide examples, links, photos, or some other evidence?
 
liontammer said:
i got a simple little question for ou guy no i dont have one but id like to get one in the futer but what i was wondering is most tigs i see have a standard strate striping on them but i have seen a few with a weird brake up stripe type pattern i was wondering if it was just the luck of the draw or is it a different region for how there pattern will tern out
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It is a question I also pondered. Some of them appear more spectacular than others.

I have not had my tig long enough to tell but my general impression is that the pattern changes/gets refined with age.
 
thebiggerthebetter said:
If you are talking about Pseudoplatystoma tigrinum http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/species.php?species_id=329, I understand. But we are talking about a Brachyplatystoma tigrinum http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/species.php?species_id=354, or so I think. If you really meant the latter, can you, please, provide examples, links, photos, or some other evidence?
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x2 that would be a crazy ass looking fish! RTCxTig.... jeeze that'd be cool. Even though I'm not into hybrids really.
 
The reason for hybridizing the fishes (meant for human consumption) is two fold:

1. what they call hybrid vigor (so they grow the fastest and the biggest) +

2. hybrid infertility (so that if they escape they would not (successfully) wreck the local eco-system).

We get some of these kittens in the ornamental fish trade as a by-product of the main intended purpose but very few of them and it takes a long time for them to make it to this market.

That's why we see the hybrids between the biggest and fastest-growing catfishes of SA. There is no good logical reason for the SA fish farmers to hybridize, for instance, a fish that grows to 4'-6' with one that grows to 1' or even 2'.

Albeit, a Pseudoplatystoma (Large fish, like TSN) x Pimelodus (small fish like P. blochii) hybrids are known, such as this one http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/species.php?species_id=1181, they appear to be extremely rare and are probably by-products of some experiments down in SA which went no where (commercially).
 
The patter diff im talking about i got a tat of there are pics of it in the mfk ink thread in the spirit lounge

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