*Datnoid thread 124 - Tiger Lover Forever

[itchy]

Originally Posted by cher boon

From what I see cannot heal back (only my view) unless do operation.

Agreed with Master Cher boon. Cher has been keeping many tigers for long long time. If the cut is too deep in, hard to recover . The cuts on the tail looks like man made , imho.

[itchy]

Originally Posted by chenny

De tail spliting is not serious. It's can be heal back subject de fish is allocate in an exclusive tank....without further stress and..reckons the recovery is 4mths...

Cheeny, still has any more tigers? Long time Never see your posting on your nice collection.

[chenny]

Originally Posted by itchy

Cheeny, still has any more tigers? Long time Never see your posting on your nice collection.

Hey Itchy,
As of now my tank just filled w water & air pump....had offload all tigers....
If luck is at my side in the coming months.....will get few African Tiger Scats......

If Not, am will just bag a piece of ST from the aquarium shop.....

[itchy]

Originally Posted by chenny

Hey Itchy,
As of now my tank just filled w water & air pump....had offload all tigers....
If luck is at my side in the coming months.....will get few African Tiger Scats......

If Not, am will just bag a piece of ST from the aquarium shop.....

Oh, last time your collection is very nice , now quite hard to find ST but common to see MT , some even selling off as ST

[Kohaku]

. With all the tiny 3bar its and normal its coming in, I was tempted and started a small collection 2 weeks ago. I had a mixture of 10 of them. All looks healthy when i brought them. Can eat tubifex worm, blood worm and small fish eagerly. Everything seem fine for a few days till 1 or 2 small its having difficulties breathing then died after a while, even when they look very healthy the day before. Never overfeed. Every day died 1 or 2piece. Water change, high aeration and stress guard doesn't seem to work. Think could be disease, but what kind? Check with a supplier and was told nothing could be done if the its are small.

I am a novice in indo tiger. Is this so call sudden death? Or other problem? Can anyone share how to keep small its? Why do we still buy those small its when they died so easily? Shouldn't we wait till they hit more than 2inch before we buy?

[Chee]

Hi bro i bought alot too. Buy cause they are cheaper at this size 😂

I got same experience as you. Think they r very sensitive to change in environment and water parameter. In addition, i guess i overfed them as the die bloated. Have difficulty to breath too...

But very hard to resist feeding.

[harrysoo]

bought a bag of 100 mini ITs couple of mths ago. till now left 8pcs, the rest went to meet their maker

[Kohaku]

It seem that buying small is not the way.

Just calculate, 1pc 3clean bar $20 or $25 if u buy 10 or more.. End of day left 1-2 piece that make it. Doesnt it cost the same buy a bigger one at that price? I am, for sure, not getting small its after this experience.

Anyway just to share something I heard. Those small its we have now are not bred, but wild caught from rivers in indo. Every season, in sept or oct, the fishermen catch up all the small its that is available and sell to farm very cheap. From there, the farms raise them for a while and sell them. Anyway during this process, many its are lost. Few months later they harvest the mid siz it and when breeding time, they catch the big its. Was also told, if this carry on, we would experience what happened to siamese tiger in the near future.

[cher boon]

Originally Posted by Kohaku

It seem that buying small is not the way.

Just calculate, 1pc 3clean bar $20 or $25 if u buy 10 or more.. End of day left 1-2 piece that make it. Doesnt it cost the same buy a bigger one at that price? I am, for sure, not getting small its after this experience.

Anyway just to share something I heard. Those small its we have now are not bred, but wild caught from rivers in indo. Every season, in sept or oct, the fishermen catch up all the small its that is available and sell to farm very cheap. From there, the farms raise them for a while and sell them. Anyway during this process, many its are lost. Few months later they harvest the mid siz it and when breeding time, they catch the big its. Was also told, if this carry on, we would experience what happened to siamese tiger in the near future.

I remember when mini tigers introduced in sg two years ago the clean 3bar only cost $3-$6 each, Now need $25-$30 each very very ex. And bros said it's true not worth to keeping mini as the mati(sds) rate is high.

[Kohaku]

Anyway the price maybe due to the high mortality rate at farms when they are being raised or could be greed by sellers, pass through many hands, who marked up way too much. I heard thousands died just to gets those 1% 3 bars ITs from the millions ITs. Importers had experienced whole tank wipe out before they sell to us.

If we educate hobbyist, maybe can see a change in mindset. Small ITs gets to grow bigger in rivers and biggers ITs being caught to be sold to us. Better for us also.