Dats and Fronts

[Norbert]

Question: 10"+ Dat with 3" Fronts, will the dat eat the fronts?

normally I'd assume the dat would eat the fronts if he can fit them in his mouth but I've heard alot of different people say a dat will never eat another dat...well fronts look alot like dats so...what do you think?

 

[krichardson]

I have heard about them supposedly not eating their own kind but I dont know if they would leave smaller sized dats alone if they get hungry enough.I think that the dat will see those fronts as food and they will wind up as expensive feeders.

 

[keepinfish]

i have a 10" indo with fronts that were 4-5" and they fought but never lost one due to the indo...only the rays.

 

[janzal3]

If the dat were much larger, I wouldn't try it. You might be okay at 10 inches. I had quite a few losses from my large ST. Including a 4 inch salvini cichlid and quite a few african cichlids which were all around 4 inches. I thought they would be too quick. They all dissapeared at night.

 

[vaine111]

If the dat were much larger, I wouldn't try it. You might be okay at 10 inches. I had quite a few losses from my large ST. Including a 4 inch salvini cichlid and quite a few african cichlids which were all around 4 inches. I thought they would be too quick. They all dissapeared at night.

africans will be the staple diet of my dats when they get bigger... not fronts though they are the only ones i like.

 

[jasoncambs]

africans will be the staple diet of my dats when they get bigger... not fronts though they are the only ones i like.

murderer lol

 

[vaine111]

sorry i just think alot of them are annoying. they have no personality other then nipping anything that goes by and tearing things to shreds... not something i want to deal with. rather just clean up the fecies not the carcus.

 

[T1KARMANN]

big tigers with little tigers no problem

its like a tiger knows if he eats another the very shape dorsal fin will do them a lot of internal damage

even my 18 inch aros would not eat a 3 inch NGT

a font may look like a tiger but they are not a tiger fish are not stupid or you would get lots of font tiger hybrids

 

[vaine111]

you cant even get a dat to a dat breeding how you think they are going to do it with fronts? lmao.

 

[T1KARMANN]

very true

but a tiger looks nothing like a font to a tiger you may as well say a tigrinus cat looks like a tiger fish