Tigrinus Help

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Gotcha. Thanks much again.

I've only kept one tig for about a year. It'd grown from ~5" to ~8" and I lost it during a move. I gave it some shrimp but also other foods. I vaguely recall some other tig keepers agreeing with your advice here on MFK about crustaceans being a problem with tigs in particular, as opposed to the general and understood problem of feeding primarily or exclusively crustacean diet because of the high thiaminase content in crustaceans.
 
thebiggerthebetter said:
Gotcha. Thanks much again.

I've only kept one tig for about a year. It'd grown from ~5" to ~8" and I lost it during a move. I gave it some shrimp but also other foods. I vaguely recall some other tig keepers agreeing with your advice here on MFK about crustaceans being a problem with tigs in particular, as opposed to the general and understood problem of feeding primarily or exclusively crustacean diet because of the high thiaminase content in crustaceans.
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If you kept one for 1 year and it only grew 3" it must have had other issues as they should grow 1" - 2" per month only slowing down at about 14"


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Agreed. I've had trouble with breaking it off live and tank mates being much faster eaters. It never was sick or thin though.

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It look fine I think there are 2 variants the crazy stripe type that you had and the normal stripe type

If you look at you pic you can see y shape at the bottom and starting at the top as well I have had both types
The y stripe ones do take a bit longer to start growing but seam to grow larger than the normal stripes

I know you can say it's a different variant based on stripes alone but I think they may just be a different fishing location as the Y stripe one seams to also have tail streamers the same size top and bottom of the tail but the normal stripe one has a much longer streamer on the top of the tail

I maybe completely wrong but I have had a few of each a the Y stripe are a much more bulky fish

Good luck growing it on once you get to 12" all the hard work is done


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Crazy stripe ones grow likely slower... Interesting. You are a wealth of information on tigs. Gotta make a mental note to myself :)
 
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