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evening everyone trying to set up tigrinus comm tank hope they grows well, anyone have any knowledge on tigrinus or other catfish please share

1 question what type of feeders u guys feed ur tigrinus with? got mine at this size <------------------------>

hope they live in harmony

erm 5 in 1 tank? or are you talking pond?

tank they are quite small

no feeders, pellets and frozen seafood

how did u make them eat pellets

I fed him pellets? it's not that hard to convert them to doing that, if they don't like pellets try a bit of fish from the market, or chopped shrimp or scallops. Tigrinus most certainly do not require feeders.

are we talking Merodontotus or Pseudoplatystoma here??

I've never seen any Merodontotus that small, here.
Actually I never saw ANY Merodontotus here, only once a single fish in Germany.
costed a fortune.....

Someone must be breeding them if they come in at 3" or so!

http://www.sharkaquarium.com/store.cfm? ... 84&catid=6

doesn't look like it's being bred so much as taking the babies from the wild... my juruense came in at about 4 inches... weird to see one at that size

http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/pi ... /354_f.php has some very small tigrinus pics..

Weird!
usually very pretty little cats turn into great bulky ugly monsters.....

here we have a perfect example of a "swan", how a tiny greyish pink gnome turns into a fabulous looking gentle giant!

sidguppy wrote:how a tiny greyish pink gnome turns into a fabulous looking gentle giant!

Does this mean there's still a chance for Ian Fuller to grow into something more attractive?

Dont feed the Tigrinus feeders...if it wont take tiny peices of shrimp try feeding black worms. They cant resist black worms. 5 tigs! How much did that cost you, if you dont mind me asking?

Gentle sid? ;) I've been latched onto a few times hand-feeding... wouldn't say gentle... with tankmates it is though, I suppose.

hehe cost me $220 Singapore dollars for 1

i intend to pump them 1st as they are quite small but notice they are growing bit by bit everyday and they ate alot!!!!!!!!!!!

It should for sure take blood worms if not try shrimp or really small pieces of boied bonelss skinless, trimmed chicken breast

just went to off the lights in my house and fish tank for half an hour, went back to check my tigrinus, all their stomach are bloated, i discover something tigrinus does eat when theres lighting only when the food is infront of them. As for live feeders my tigrinus manage to eat them when the lights went off, this is because the live feeders settles down at the botom of the tank most of them at night and the tigrinuses will move around and just gobble them up. Personally i think tigrinus does feed when there lights but for their nature they are bad hunters and doesnt really like strong lightings so u dont really see them catching live feeders when theres strong lighting.

Feeders are a bad idea. As has been said before, tigrinus will take worms and shrimp. Feeding feeders only introduces possible sources of disease into the tank, something I wouldn't do after spending that much money on those fish!

Rusty

ok u mean live shrimps?

They don't need live food period. You can supplement a regular diet of pellets and dry/frozen food with live inverts if you like, but they should be given sparingly and not as a staple. Keep in mind pimelodid's stomaches in the wild are usually empty, so you do not need to feed everyday. Once the fish get larger, feeding once or twice a week should be enough.

Rusty

Are we sure nobody's breeding them?

I have seen a recent flood of two inch tigrinus into the UK market (most unusual).

I'm not sure that they aren't being bred, I was just pointing out that they're being collected at very small sizes, and the 4-5 inch b. juruense I got from that link was really just at 4 inch, so he's not selling things smaller than they are.

As to feeding... I feed the tank with the tigrinus in it every day, mine, at about 14 inches, does not eat every day though. he'll eat pellets, shrimp, scallops, worms, whatever, but he decides not to many nights... that rather surprised me, as it's not just that he won't eat one food, or that he's bullied, he does tend to gorge when he eats though.

also...

Never noticed my catfish having any troubles eating during the day, that video I linked earlier shows that. wait, another thread, here http://scott.aaquaria.com/videos/tigrinusfeeding.mov