Tiger Keeping by Xmant

[Xmant]

Very sorry guys for the late reply, just saw the other thread.

Some sharing thoughts on my tiger keeping.

I kept all my tiger shrimps in the same initial setup parameters as shown below. However, the parameters tend to deviate slightly over time from tank to tank.

pH : 5.8 - 6.4
kH : didn't monitor
gH : 8 - 10
Temperature : 23C - 24.5C

Btw, I don't put my tigers in typical CRS parameters. But, I did it the other way round.

Why?
I noticed that tiger tended to do better that way and CRS can be trained over time.


Why GE blue tiger did not look so blue after your purchase?
When tiger is subjected to stress, it tends to be more blue. Their true color will only be shown when it has settled down in the tank after a period of time. Sometime, their color will also change due to other reasons such as mating, water quality and etc..


Why GE blue tiger cannot sustain its true blue color?
According to my own understanding, GE blue tiger has a mixed gene in colors, brown and blue. The brown gene tends to be more dominant than blue. The only way out is to do selective culling to maintain a good population of blue.


How many offsprings will be in blue?
It depends very much on their parents' color gene. Generally, the blue turn out rate will be low unless their paraents have purified color gene. Typically, one can get none to 30% blue from a single batch.


How to make your tiger look good?
Your water quality must be good. Water parameter & temperature must be relatively constant and it must not fluctuate too much daily.


PS:
1. Pls do not take my tiger parameter as a standard to keep other breeders' tiger. The parameters are only good for my tigers and not for others.

2. Other sellers are not allowed to take my water parameters as your selling references.

3. As for buyers, pls get the correct parameters from your respective breeders through your sellers.

[newlife]

Are they harder to keep comparing to bkk?

[huizhong]

hi bro xmant, how do your achieve the water parameters u have? using distilled water or tap water first? and adjust using what ingredients? i'm so impressed by your tigers but i have no luck in keep tigers alive... haha

[Xmant]

Are they harder to keep comparing to bkk?

If both come from oversea, I would say that both will be equally hard to keep.
I lost my first batch of GE Blue tiger totally less than a month when they were brought in from Japan 3 yrs ago. Managed to get some shrimplets from the 2nd batch, but lost quite a lot of their parents.

I don't have much problem with my more than 10 generations GE Blue tiger. They breed steadily.

hi bro xmant, how do your achieve the water parameters u have? using distilled water or tap water first? and adjust using what ingredients? i'm so impressed by your tigers but i have no luck in keep tigers alive... haha

I took the easy way out. All setup were done with aged tap water with Anti-chlorine & Chloramine. Btw, overesea tigers are a bit difficult to keep. It could be due to stress when courrier here and the type of water could be different too.

[newlife]

Guess the training you gave them...must be an expensive training...

[huizhong]

Hi xmant, could you share on what soil are you using to house them in? and what soil should i consider to use if i want to try keeping tigers?

[avex30]

Not too sure about bro xmant own breeding. As i read and read many online can i say the temperture they are kept in do play a big part? Alot of hobbist comment tiger need a much lower temperture and many have overlook due to whatever reason.

[Xmant]

Not too sure about bro xmant own breeding. As i read and read many online can i say the temperture they are kept in do play a big part? Alot of hobbist comment tiger need a much lower temperture and many have overlook due to whatever reason.

Always ask your breeder how do they keep them instead of seller. They will not be the best person to advice you.

[eviltrain]

bro~ mind if you measure kH and TDS?

[Xmant]

Re-attached my old photos of my tigers for your viewing.

Royal Blue Tiger




GE Red Tiger

[HeMan]

Nice shrimps. Wow bro , GE red tiger looks cool

[huizhong]

bro xmant, mind to share what soil are you using for the different tigers? thank you

[Xmant]

bro xmant, mind to share what soil are you using for the different tigers? thank you

Soils are not that important. Tried on many type of soils before. More important is that the soil can buffer to the correct pH.

Noticed that you have quite a success in breeding bkk, I doubt that you will have any problem of breeding tigers.

[Xmant]

Here come the GE Blue Tiger.

[newlife]

Here come the GE Blue Tiger.

This is terrible....Deep poison

[newlife]

And I do remember that was once sending bro Xmant home...
He told me some Crazy ways in training his shrimp....
I can only salute...
Shrimp BMT training....

[rolex]

Very nice and impressive. Thanks for sharing

[silane]

Re-attached my old photos of my tigers for your viewing.

Wow, this piece is unique

[huizhong]

Soils are not that important. Tried on many type of soils before. More important is that the soil can buffer to the correct pH.

Noticed that you have quite a success in breeding bkk, I doubt that you will have any problem of breeding tigers.

yea i had success for a while. now tank crash and almost all died. sigh...

[Xmant]

yea i had success for a while. now tank crash and almost all died. sigh...

It's time to start a new one again.