YouTube has alot of clips of wels catfish taking birds of a beach and one having a pull of war with a fox, interesting to watch wild fish hunt, not something I would do in my tank
Mammal-off
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I always fed F/T rodents to my snakes and reptiles,BUT it's not easy keeping several hundred to several thousand LIVE rodents, so I always bought pre-killed pack, ziplocked on dry ice. Occassionally I'd have a left over pinky or fuzzy mouse and I would toss it to my Jaguars and JDs and the males used to love them, but not often - too high in cholesterol
I think I was a bit unclear. I'm not saying people should feed live mammals to their fish (especially not dogs and cats), I'm asking what the fish in question could eat if they had the chance. A lot of people don't realize that there are fish that can eat mammals, and a fish with the potential to eat, say, an opossum, is a pretty cool thing to have in your aquarium whether or not you feed it opossums.
I love that this thread was started by someone with the sceenname betta 
Similar to another poster my snakeheads that I owned before the ban used to destroy everything. I never really bought them food. Just threw in insects, fish from the lake, frogs. Whatever. As a young teen I loved it. Now it doesn't really do it for me anymore.
Similar to another poster my snakeheads that I owned before the ban used to destroy everything. I never really bought them food. Just threw in insects, fish from the lake, frogs. Whatever. As a young teen I loved it. Now it doesn't really do it for me anymore.
Muskellunges are known for taking young beavers, adult muskrats, minks, woodchucks, adult squirrels, young otters and occasionally lap dogs. Pike and bass seems they love water shrews, moles and mice.
Wels and other big catfish, they will eat mammals that can fit in their mouth. One report of a big flathead catfish that was responsible for missing piglets (it took a place in a farm pond inside the pig pasture) and wipe out all piglet crop. The farmer keeps blaming on dogs and coyotes till he witnessed the piglets wallowing in the mud and the catfish grabbed it. After the catfish was removed, the depredation stopped. There was nothing in the pond for the catfish to eat.
Wels and other big catfish, they will eat mammals that can fit in their mouth. One report of a big flathead catfish that was responsible for missing piglets (it took a place in a farm pond inside the pig pasture) and wipe out all piglet crop. The farmer keeps blaming on dogs and coyotes till he witnessed the piglets wallowing in the mud and the catfish grabbed it. After the catfish was removed, the depredation stopped. There was nothing in the pond for the catfish to eat.
I love that this thread was started by someone with the sceenname betta
Similar to another poster my snakeheads that I owned before the ban used to destroy everything. I never really bought them food. Just threw in insects, fish from the lake, frogs. Whatever. As a young teen I loved it. Now it doesn't really do it for me anymore.
I know, I was tripping on that too. Who would of thought Betta 132 is a live feed advocate. Realistically Bettas pound for pound are scrappy fish, I can imagine the temperament of a 5 pounder.
Right! Savages! Remind me of aquatic Chihuahua. Imagine a 45lb Chihuahua? Lethal
