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Wondering if you marbled catfish will become aggressive.
Bought my marbled catfish about 2" and now is around a foot long.
Always kept her with several fish, african tiger fish, rapheal catfish, marbled goby, dsh, ornate bichir, etc etc. As of last week the cat was being housed with an ATF, marbled goby and a rapheal cat.
I noticed about a day ago that something had attacked my african tiger fish and ripped some flesh. I couldn't tell who it was , so assummed it was the marbled goby because it has gotten large and had been hunting for food lately. Took him out and the next morning i noticed my ATF had really taken a beating. Fins tore, flesh ripped, and even a good chunk was hanging off the rear of the fish. Im sure it was teh 3" rapheal cat, so ive come to accept that the marble cat had just became aggressive. They have all been feed well and the cat eats all the food i add to the.
Now my atf is donig just fine, healing with only red sores on the body
This post is just for all marbled catfish owners that are wondering how their fish might do in a community. Maybe in a larger tank it woudln't have been so bad or the ATF could have had its on area to work in.
I also figured the atf could do a better job defending itself, i think it the small tank the catfish was able to just suprise attack all night long.
Here is a pic of the ATF as of today, yesterday there was hanging/torn flesh, would have been a awesome pictures. Just to show how tuff the ATF is and didn't even phase him. (the atf was perfect before this too)
Wondering if you marbled catfish will become aggressive.
Bought my marbled catfish about 2" and now is around a foot long.
Always kept her with several fish, african tiger fish, rapheal catfish, marbled goby, dsh, ornate bichir, etc etc. As of last week the cat was being housed with an ATF, marbled goby and a rapheal cat.
I noticed about a day ago that something had attacked my african tiger fish and ripped some flesh. I couldn't tell who it was , so assummed it was the marbled goby because it has gotten large and had been hunting for food lately. Took him out and the next morning i noticed my ATF had really taken a beating. Fins tore, flesh ripped, and even a good chunk was hanging off the rear of the fish. Im sure it was teh 3" rapheal cat, so ive come to accept that the marble cat had just became aggressive. They have all been feed well and the cat eats all the food i add to the.
Now my atf is donig just fine, healing with only red sores on the body
This post is just for all marbled catfish owners that are wondering how their fish might do in a community. Maybe in a larger tank it woudln't have been so bad or the ATF could have had its on area to work in.
I also figured the atf could do a better job defending itself, i think it the small tank the catfish was able to just suprise attack all night long.
Here is a pic of the ATF as of today, yesterday there was hanging/torn flesh, would have been a awesome pictures. Just to show how tuff the ATF is and didn't even phase him. (the atf was perfect before this too)
thats nuts