View Full Version : The price of keeping big catfish.
Recently my 21" sailfin pim ate my 12" clown knife. He has also eaten a 9" wild oscar and a 8" uro. I guess that comes with the territory of keeping large catfish.
If anyone has any experinces with big cats eating other fish please share.
I had a eight inch red tail eat a five inch oscar, also had him eat a six in goatfish (he was the store garbage can at the time) impressive eaters. I used to keep a sailfin pim when i worked at wal mart for about five months beast ate ANYTHING crayfish, worms, dog food, dead fish, live fish. Impressed me, glad it wasnt my dime feeding it.
rayman45
05-22-2005, 8:20 PM
thats y i love big catfish
iheartfishies
05-22-2005, 9:28 PM
My RTC ate
two 10" Balas
7" african
8" Jack
Three 6"convicts
and a
6"Moto.
****er. :)
I loved him anyway.
lophius
05-23-2005, 6:08 AM
can't remember everything that mine has eaten - but do remember, 2 frontosa, 1 BIG emporer cichlid and an oscar
carl
AlaskaJammin
05-25-2005, 6:42 AM
Mine has eaten a bunch of cichlids, two spotted gar, one needle nose gar, and a jardini arowana :wall: :wall: Gotta love those tsn cats. :headbang2
buddah101
05-25-2005, 8:21 AM
I have a Lima that polished off a 5.99 Fire Mouth about a week ago.
iheartfishies
05-25-2005, 3:45 PM
I have a Lima that polished off a 5.99 Fire Mouth about a week ago.
5.99 ain't nothing but chump change.:)
Oddball
05-26-2005, 1:03 PM
17" RTC ate 4 12-14" blue channel cats in a week and a 1/2.
Most recent (and painful) aspiration: 2 1/2ft dark morph gator gar killed and choked on a 12"+ leichardti aro.
piranha45
05-26-2005, 1:12 PM
17" RTC ate 4 12-14" blue channel cats in a week and a 1/2.
Most recent (and painful) aspiration: 2 1/2ft dark morph gator gar killed and choked on a 12"+ leichardti aro.
Amazing stuff. I'll never forget your story of how the leichardti met with the gar though, haha!
Killduv
06-01-2005, 12:12 PM
My Auperinis/Nigricuda catfish's have eaten many cichilds, characins, and other cats. These fishes are total pigs.
in the last 10 days my apurensis 8'' has eaten a 3'' severum and a 4.5'' geo braziliensis which it is still digesting after 3 days.
dixon
lil_lara
06-02-2005, 1:35 PM
We had a 20" pleco in the store with oscars.. and when we feed the oscars fish.. the pleco would trap a comet up against the glass would start to eat it.. So everyone could see :lol:
My channel cats would pick off small gold fish.. they also ate one of my convicts *snaps fingers* oh darn j/k