A fish that eats/kill bigger fish than It self?

[Shark-Baite]

Most fishes are predatores. Because they will almost always eat a fish that fits in It's mouth.

But what kind of (freshwather) fish could kill or eat another fish bigger than it self??
Only one I can think of has to be the Fahaka, or many enough piranha's.

Any one else who know of other species who can do this.

 

[ultimatejay]

Gulper cat.

 

[rumblesushi]

Haha Jay that's exactly what I was gonna say.

People have posted pics on this site of a gulper cat with bigger fish in its belly Absolutely nuts.

Snakeheads too, every large species of channa I've had has killed bigger fish.

 

[guppy]

The one that jumps to mind for me are the Phagos, Belanophagos, and Icthyborus species of african pike characins, they are pencil shaped and sized with scissor action mouths. I had a 6" one kill a much larger pleco one night bu blinding it, cutting off it's fins and tail, and slashing a hole into it's intestinal cavity. In the wild they feed off much larger fish by darting out of the weeds and ripping off a slice of fin.

 

[M|L]

and the point of this thread is?

 

[Oddball]

Cetopsis cats will also kill and eat larger fish. Any large fish displaying a wound will cause a cetopsis to run in and exascerbate the wound until the hole is large enough for the cat to shimmy its' way inside. Then, the catfish will eat the larger fish from the inside out.

 

[ewurm]

Cetopsis cats will also kill and eat larger fish. Any large fish displaying a wound will cause a cetopsis to run in and exascerbate the wound until the hole is large enough for the cat to shimmy its' way inside. Then, the catfish will eat the larger fish from the inside out.

That's awesome! Sounds like something you would see on the sci fi channel.

 

[KillerKlover]

Can you keep cetopsis cats!!!

 

[deangelo]

Senegalus i've had one who was a terror, i had him in my feeder tank, i thought that he would be ok there eating pellets together with feeders bigger than him..then he started killing feeders and eating out their eyes, and they're bellies...

 

[Oddball]

Can you keep cetopsis cats!!!

Several of our sponsors carry them. Keeping these cats requires over-filtration, almost too much current, and massive amounts of aeration. These cats live in and around the whitewater spillways along rivers and require higher O2 levels than most hobbyists are used to seeing. Water quality also has to be immaculate with zero ammonia/nitrates.
If you can provide the proper conditions, this "peruvian blue dolphin" catfish is a very active oddball species to maintain. It's relatively new to the US markets and has yet to be spawned in captivity.