Thank you Again. Theres also something about only having one fish in a tank, i could imagine that it would become something like a "wet pet" being handfed, and stuff like that. This is gonna sound insane... Is it possible that i saw the head of a freshwater moray in one of your pics? Again i'd probaly make it a species tank. Maybe try out some large not so agressive tankmates, and heck, if it goes wrong i expected it.
Curious about the Jelly Cats.
- Thread starter Karl K
- Start date
They will eat or try to eat any fish they might think will fit into their mouths. That's all you need to know
Sent from my iPhone using MonsterAquariaNetwork app
Sent from my iPhone using MonsterAquariaNetwork app
Agreed. So safe tank mates should simply not be "swallowable"... keeping in mind the exceptions reported, e.g., by TheeEmotionalPayara http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?573278-Bobbing-for-smelt-Begging-for-food -- I personally would not take such risks if I could avoid it.
Yeh, it's weird hes dosnt devour the pike cichlid. Maybe it's a male, they shouldn't be as aggressive.
Sent from my ST15i using Tapatalk App
We are talking about different types of aggression. Female is more aggressive than a male territorially. I don't think they'd differ significantly in predatory aggression... perhaps with the exception of when the female is growing eggs.
There are at least three types of aggression - predatory, territorial, and hierarchal - that should not be mixed.
There are at least three types of aggression - predatory, territorial, and hierarchal - that should not be mixed.
I have owned one Rusty Jello but only for a little over 14 years.
Bought at 17.8cm total length on January 3, 1989. Bought at Big Al's Aquarium Service original store on Dundas St in Mississauga Ontario Canada for $30.00. Kept in a 680 litre by itself till the summer of 1995. It was known then as Pseudopimelodus fowleri. (Haseman 1911)
Measured at 63.5cm tl at that time and moved into the 196kl (1097 cm long x 823cm wide x 275 cm deep) L shaped.
Ate well and lived in a cave among the 120cm high rock piled around the walls of the tank. It did have a favourite cave located near the 120cm dividing
wall and appeared anytime the tank was being fed large chunks of fish. The only aggressive time I noticed was when it tried to eat a young 45cm tl Phractocephalus hemioliopterus as it was added to the tank in September of 2000. The red tail swam to the bottom of the tank when it was introduced and close to a cave the fowleri was in. this would be at a depth of between 240cm and 275cm
It never bothered much larger P. hemioliopterus.
It was an ambush predator in my tank feasting on the large number of african cichlids swimming among the rock piles.
It died nov 12, 2003.
Thanks, for the information. I could imagine it would be cool watching it ambush the african cichlids
It usually happens at night in the dark. The darker it is, the more advantage a catfish has over its prey that relies heavily on eye sight.
4Lx2Lx1.5L What are we talking here? Meters? 8' x 4' x 3' is 2,5 x 1,2 x 0.9 meters ??
