3" Gulper eats 8" Leichartdi

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Geez, what CAN you keep gulpers with? Seems they eat freaking everything. When they are full grown, oy, talk about a pain when it comes to stocking...crazy.

I'd get one, but nervous about coming home one day to a missing turtle...:(
 
Thanx for eveyones sympathy. I just wish I would have caught the bugger in the act so I might have saved my Aro. That would have been enough for me to have learned such a horrible lesson. It was my vanity I've successfully kept fish that were supposed to be extremely aggressive and suitable only for a solitary tank with other fish. Like my Apurensis and Oscar. Anyone whose kept a Apurensis can attest to the fact that they're highly predatorial and aggressive to boot. However thru keeping the Apurensis well fed by handfeeding his predatory instinct subsided. He recognized my hand as his source of food so never ate any of the fish I introduced to the tank after him including smaller fish like my Oscar. He only ate from my hand a process I tried to emulate again with the Gulpers. My vanity cost me alot this time.
 
that is why i love gulper catfishes. they can eat fishes alot bigger than their size. once the gulper grasp its prey, it uses the preys struggling motion to slide it further into its mouth. as it goes in, the gulper folds the prey hense the big bulge in the stomach.. oh man, how i miss my old gulpers..

btw, sorry for your lost.
 
Nah, at worst he'll puke an foul up my water sumthin fierce. Had a Apurensis dispatch a Red Devil his size once. I told my ex-wife he looked too much like a goldfish to be put in there. She just had to have the Devil an I guess so did the Apurensis. My ex freaked out since the Apurensis body was in the shape of the Devil. She never forgave me or my fish. Anyway like that night the Apurensis vomited out the poor fish. He never ate a tankmate again. He lived peacefully with many other cichlids smaller than him an would only snap at them to let them know they were on his turf.
 
All i can say is that empathize with you man... my gulper cat also ate my 14 inch long nosed gar this morning. I never thought it was possible but sure enough one of my gulper cat had something shaped like the head of a gar in its stomach.

Strangely, the gar was with my cats for over 2 weeks and nothing happened before...
 
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