Has anyone actually seen your lungfish attacking its tankmates?

[stl lungfish]

I must be in the minority, I see mine eat all the time. He will eat almost anything I put in his tank. I have fed him frogs, a baby mouse, snails, pellet food, goldfish, earthworms, even a crawdad, that was a fun showdown. Here is a video of it. And here is also the video of him taking a mouse from my hand. I took the video on my cell phone and received a call when the video cuts out directly after the strike. The loud noise is my hand hitting the tank lid from being startled lol That was the good part anyway, a mouse makes a disgusting mess


http://youtu.be/WSrDxaISkQs

http://youtu.be/zEU0q0sw7_Y

 

[squadie]

You still have not realised you should house these alone?

It all depends on the fish?


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[woofy]

My lungfish is not shy at all to eat during the day whatever I throw in. I've never actually seen him do the murders.


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[JayP]

My lung.... During the day 3 large mouth bass and 1 black aro. May i add he was pellet trained and fed daily. He couldnt even eat the fish whole. He would only bite off the head or tail. I came
Home and almost cried when i saw him eating my black aros head


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What size tank and what size were the fish ?

 

[Master Wilkins]

Ha! My P. Dolloi is completely shy during the day and has never attacked a tank ate (yet), but every once in a while when I get up during the night I see it swimming around the tank quite quickly, but almost immediately after I turn the light on in the room it goes back into hiding.

A friend of mine had a WAL and said that it chomped the face of a Tiger shovel nose that was twice its size and held its gills closed to suffocate it, then slowly ate it over the course of three days.

 

[Brev]

Hi there,
I am new to the forum and would like to learn from you guys about lungfish.
I have an aethiopicus (so I believe) for 6 months in my office - I bought it because of the many fascinating stories about its behavior and temper etc. It measured 18cm when first came to my care and as of today, its body length is just over 32cm
Shame to admit - yes, I have added countless tankmates to its tank and indeed lost all of them.
My losses include:
3 cleaner fishes
4 frogs (xenopus)
1 fighter fish
1 axolotl
not to mention at least 2 dozens of neon tetras

What intrigue me is that: I have never actually seen my aethiopicus harassing or attacking its tankmates. The fish appears to be shy and completely oblivious towards its tankmates during daytime. What I found are the remains - unwanted body parts that the lungfish spat out when I go to work in the morning.

Hence, I wonder if lungfish really behaves differently when the light is off? Do they turn aggressive at night? Has anyone managed to capture your lungfish attacking its tankmates on video??

Thanks so much.

My marbled bit my haitian cichid in the belly, and my haitian died two days later.

 

[squadie]

I have3 diff ones An two have been fighting recently


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[theotking1127]

I've seen mine kill a much larger arapaima. Who here has successfully had any with tankmates?