Catfish royal rumble?

[wednesday13]

Im can't say tryingg to eat because they are always well fed:/ i feel its coz of territory




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Being well fed has nothing to do with it imo, feeding intices agression... ive had 18"-20" cats, 16" bass and or other 12-14" "dithers" completly eaten/dissapear after some of the heaviest meals ive offered when my cats already had big bellies. Big fish have big appetites and no discretion for their "friends". I was amazed to say the least when i found an 18-20" i.d. shark inside a 36" tsn after a night of many fillets/pellets. Cant get mad at em...its only natural lol...

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[wednesday13]

I agree with the night light. I Should've done it when they came in

Around 10x10x4(deep) and i thought a pond that big would be tough to stock:/




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Night light is a very good deturrent tbth, good advice! A 14-16" florida softshell turtle lives in my cat pond/tank so a basking light is on 24/7. Keeps everyone a bit calmer during lights out.

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[wednesday13]

At what point do you become concerned enough to separate some of them?

My wels and rtc have been going back and forth, I've never had such an even matchup but when the wels was about 3/4 the size of the rtc it decided it had enough. I couldn't believe it bc it was still quit a bit smaller but after a couple weeks it had been whipped back into place. Now the wels has been going ham on the rtc and its getting freaking intense. I'm worried they're going to bust a seam or something.

the point of being concerned is already over lol...you either keep a "community" tank and the fish choose who lives and dies...or you keep solo specimen tanks and safeguard them. Cant have both. Theres no guarentee on anything in a monster community tank. Larger numbers of cats often works better than a couple or few. The agro is spread out between the group rather than one individual. Sometimes the weak are singled out and consumed by the group aswell . Ive had people drop off 20-24" cats that were consumed/shredded over night just because my group didnt like them while other 12-18" fish live comfortably...makes no sense. In the end, they choose, not u lol...hard lesson to learn. Any fish i truely desire as a "favorite" is housed alone.

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[bobVillanueva]

Being well fed has nothing to do with it imo, feeding intices agression... ive had 18"-20" cats, 16" bass and or other 12-14" "dithers" completly eaten/dissapear after some of the heaviest meals ive offered when my cats already had big bellies. Big fish have big appetites and no discretion for their "friends". I was amazed to say the least when i found an 18-20" i.d. shark inside a 36" tsn after a night of many fillets/pellets. Cant get mad at em...its only natural lol...

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Good point. The ones that took the most damage were the tarpon and gilded cat.

Both glaring silver. They resemble bait fish so yeah fish trying to eat em could be after food




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[raideranch]

the point of being concerned is already over lol...you either keep a "community" tank and the fish choose who lives and dies...or you keep solo specimen tanks and safeguard them. Cant have both. Theres no guarentee on anything in a monster community tank. Larger numbers of cats often works better than a couple or few. The agro is spread out between the group rather than one individual. Sometimes the weak are singled out and consumed by the group aswell . Ive had people drop off 20-24" cats that were consumed/shredded over night just because my group didnt like them while other 12-18" fish live comfortably...makes no sense. In the end, they choose, not u lol...hard lesson to learn. Any fish i truely desire as a "favorite" is housed alone.

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Yea ive always had better luck with communities to spread the aggression. I even have a couple large african cichlids in there, they do pretty well as long as I leave the blues on at night. Maybe the wels has taken over for good now and they will calm down. Thx

 

[thebiggerthebetter]

Being well fed has nothing to do with it imo, feeding intices agression... ive had 18"-20" cats, 16" bass and or other 12-14" "dithers" completly eaten/dissapear after some of the heaviest meals ive offered when my cats already had big bellies. Big fish have big appetites and no discretion for their "friends". I was amazed to say the least when i found an 18-20" i.d. shark inside a 36" tsn after a night of many fillets/pellets. Cant get mad at em...its only natural lol...

Agree with Wed: heavy feeding is a factor but such is an instinct too. Another vivid example is here, page 8 post #73 http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/f...ly-starting-to-come-together-01-09-2011/page8