Dat eating ?

tonymofo

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Been lurking around when I read something about someone’s dat eat another tank mates eyeballs. It also brought back an old memory about 15-16 years ago when I was in my 20’s at my mom house and I had a 180 gallon in her living room. I had 2-3 dats that we’re about 8-10 inches that I had owned for about 5-6 years. I had them and a 20” silver arowana trained to eat smelts from my hand. I was on the couch watching a movie falling asleep when I heard the dat eat something. I got up curious to see that 1 of my arowana eye missing and it’s just swimming around like nothing happened. I kept all the fish fed on smelt and krill so it was weird to me to see this.... I called my dad over to look and he was in shock too..... I sat down watching whatever I was watching on tv and randomly looking at the tank when I seen the dat eat the other dats eyeball. I was in total shock that this dat was doing this and scooped him out and put that eye eating dat in the sump. I put the eye eating dat back in tank after a couple of days and didn’t have that problem again.... the 1 eyed dat and aro lived a long time after that and never skipped a beat on feedings!

Has anyone else had something like this happen?
 

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Indonesian Eyebiter!...but seriously I had a really aggressive thinbar years ago that would peck the heck out of other fish whenever it made up it's mind to,causing lesions and wounds.....never had an eye eating dat though.
 

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I’ve had tons of dats and never seen any eating eyeballs..... I’ve even kept tiny dats with big ones and they never ate them either.
 

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Wow.... I even went back on ALL my previous post/threads and I couldn’t even find a picture of the tank I had in my moms living room years ago..... I’m pretty sure I ended up selling those dats to someone on MFK......
 
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