6" RTC eating a mouse
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hahahha yup kinda sad. will be more fun when it eats the BGKF , lol
Maybe the OP should buy a snake?
explain. that mouse was sanitized and frozen. my tank is at 0 for all readings
I took on this fish with slight gill curl and it i hoped it would go away in time but it hasnt
It usually doesn't get better and is usually a product of poor water, but do you think feeding a mouse to a rtc is healthy? Mice are not a part of their diet. I would wonder how digesting some of the mouse parts could possibly be stressful for the fish?
If you are all zeros across the board then your tank hasn't cycled yet. Keep an eye on ammonia and nitrites
It is easily possible to get 0's across the board in a cycled tank. Just fail to follow the directions perfectly on an API nitrate test kit. 
While I don't see this hurting the catfish (even in the wild they eat just about everything that drops in the water), it does seem like a pointless effort. They don't need it. As a result you end up making a video that is basically someone annoying a catfish by waving around food that it doesn't seem all that interested in (and for some reason feeling that that was worth making a thread about and sharing).
Also, his tankmates will probably start disappearing soon.
While I don't see this hurting the catfish (even in the wild they eat just about everything that drops in the water), it does seem like a pointless effort. They don't need it. As a result you end up making a video that is basically someone annoying a catfish by waving around food that it doesn't seem all that interested in (and for some reason feeling that that was worth making a thread about and sharing).
Also, his tankmates will probably start disappearing soon.
yeah the tank is cycled, thus amonia and nitrites reading are zero, nitrates are removed by my plants and fluval lab series nitrate remover. I have it in a 40 gal breeder with a 20 gal sump and a pump running 350 gal. per hour.I couldnt imagine a RTC in the wild not eating a dead rodent in there lifetime. They live in exotic rivers all through-out the world, I couldnt even list all the different mammels that fall into there river.