diet question

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darboy

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One of my 10 inch pbasses just ate my 6 inch shovelnose. :irked: They've been good tankmates for months so i didn't realize something like this can happen. Anyhow, i just wanted to know if the bass can digest his meal. He's been trying to move his catch, im not sure if he's trying to regurtitate the catfish or that he's just swallowing more. its been 6 hours since the feeding happened and the tail is still way outside his mouth. Im a little concerned with the shovelnoses snout, can that thick snout be digested? i duno if im freaking out but i dont think my peacock can spit the catfish out again i think its jammed right in there already. i guess i just have to wait it out, but if you guys hav info or experience to tell, it would be great thanks!
 
darboy;585183; said:
One of my 10 inch pbasses just ate my 6 inch shovelnose. :irked: They've been good tankmates for months so i didn't realize something like this can happen. Anyhow, i just wanted to know if the bass can digest his meal. He's been trying to move his catch, im not sure if he's trying to regurtitate the catfish or that he's just swallowing more. its been 6 hours since the feeding happened and the tail is still way outside his mouth. Im a little concerned with the shovelnoses snout, can that thick snout be digested? i duno if im freaking out but i dont think my peacock can spit the catfish out again i think its jammed right in there already. i guess i just have to wait it out, but if you guys hav info or experience to tell, it would be great thanks!
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I personally wouldn't worrie fish tend not to choke ;) if it was too big for the Pbass or if it had enough it would just regurtitate the fish and have done with it, it will eat it's fill then spit it out, when it does spit it out you will see that as large as the shovelnoses head is, it's still no match for a pbass it will just mince it up.

see how it go's over night and just keep an eye on the fish and keep us all posted just incase there is any abnormal activity.

:)

Dan.
 
it will digest as it goes down, My old largemouth bass would eat fish that I thought would never eat and sure enough, he would it eat. The tail would be sticking out and eventually it would just "disappear". Sorry about your TSN though..Costly meal.
 
IMO let nature take it's course. Very little you can do..
 
He won't be able to regurgitate it because the TSN has sharp spines on its pectoral fins he just has to swallow it nothing you can realy do to help him.

Hope it turns out ok catfish are not good meals P-bass never seem to learn this
 
it should be fine, although i did have a 1.5" largemouth try to eat a 1" danio did work out to well for him tho, he ending up dieing with the fish hanging out of his mouth
 
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