tried selling him a couple times but buyer backed out twice at the last minute so I kept him.My last catfish
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tried selling him a couple times but buyer backed out twice at the last minute so I kept him.
Trachycorystes trachycorystes iron head driftwood catfish. Imagine a more aggressive gulper catfish that can grow to 18 inches.
Good eye on both of you
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it's definitely a Trachycorystes trachycorystes. Though imho they aren't really aggressive except for slight skirmish over hides but they also seem to share well enough. Only real aggression is between males and females during courtship ime. The danger I've encountered is my female particularly has periods of sudden predation. I've said it other threads, I believe it maybe related to breeding conditioning because it seems to be seasonal. Other than that mine are 14 years old and my male shares a hide with a Platydoras Maroni, Rhinodoras dorbignyi and a Pseudacanthicus serratus and occasionally a Hemibagrus filamentus. The female often stays in a adjacent hide with a Xanthic Synodontis nigrita.
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it's definitely a Trachycorystes trachycorystes. Though imho they aren't really aggressive except for slight skirmish over hides but they also seem to share well enough. Only real aggression is between males and females during courtship ime. The danger I've encountered is my female particularly has periods of sudden predation. I've said it other threads, I believe it maybe related to breeding conditioning because it seems to be seasonal. Other than that mine are 14 years old and my male shares a hide with a Platydoras Maroni, Rhinodoras dorbignyi and a Pseudacanthicus serratus and occasionally a Hemibagrus filamentus. The female often stays in a adjacent hide with a Xanthic Synodontis nigrita.
Yea I know what he is I purchased him LOL. I never said he was aggressive to fish he lives with two marble gobys and four spiney eels with no problems and lived with other fish before moving to this tank. That being said he will eat anything that he can catch that will fit in his mouth. He will bite the net when you try and catch him and has bitten me while aquascaping the tank. I've never seen any behavior like that from my gulpers. I have kept gulpers in community tanks also without any issues. My gulpers were slower moving feeders, this guy is fast and will swim like a shark looking for food as he was doing when I snapped the pictures. He does hide more than my gulpers but is a much more active feeder. My tanks have lots of rockwork so I don't see it much the only reason it's still here is because it doesn't cause problems in the tank. I might have a feeding video and it's nothing like my gulper feeding videos.Good eye on both of you
Any video of the ones you have how big are they?Good eye on both of you
I'm sorry, I don't know why but I thought it was an ID thread. My apologies for assuming and not reading well enough to realize you where sharing and providing your personal experience.
Aggression wise I haven't really seen any except for as I said squabbles over hides and I hear it more than I see it as they grunt very audibly, otherwise I wouldn't be able to tell as no one is ever injured. Again except my female Trachy who does receive a decent beating if she can't get away from the male quick enough when he is feeling amorous. Mine have bitten me on occasion but it's my fault as I handfeed them so they do at times get disturbed while I am cleaning and assume it's feeding time and after some exploratory nudges will at times take a investigative nibble. While I find Gulpers to not be aggressive I do find them to be more likely to bite me. In all instances between the two species I find it to be a predatory response rather than aggression. But I've only had 4 Trachys and 4 Gulpers so I definitely can not speak in definitives but just share my personal experiences.
The Trachys are as you also mentioned way less "clumsy" and more "determined" "aggressive"? in their movements than Gulpers. Sorry hard for me to find an appropriate description. They are capable of quick movements and employ them in their search for morsels. They are like mini bulldozers ime, pushing and headbutting away potential competition for food. Mine also hide most of the time only coming out on occasion to patrol for food or when food is introduced. I have a very, very large pipe ornament which is my males preferred hide. He squeezes in with a 12 inch Maroni, !2 inch Serratus and 10 inch Rhinodoras. They are one of my most daring cats as they have absolutely no issue with eating from the surface or my hand with the lights on.
I haven't taken a video of them in awhile since my DSLR broke but I'll see if I can get one of them feeding. Mine are I believe are maybe 14 inches. They grew fast to about 8-10 inches but slowed after that for me.
Edit: By the way I loved watching your Gulper eat off your Gobies head. lol ?