October update
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The bottom dwellers are completely ignored
They don't even bother to pick food, once it is on the floor of the tank
Thank you Rob. The cats haven't yet done any such thing, they just ignore the dorados, so do the Dorado, they don't meddle with the cats.
My goonch has eaten a Lapradei, the goonch was 7",while the lap was 5", bugger was looking like a gulped cat, with the dorados they have been good, but the issue you've brought up does keep popping in my head.
The bagarius I have found to be a lazy lot, who like to move only for food, when I sit in front of the tank, if they are not very hungry, all they would do is twitch around a bit or may be move from one place to the other, if they are hungry, then they would start circling around the tank searching for food. My old bagarius used to beg for food every time I used to sit in front of the tank, by swimming on the front glass pane, showing its belly
I think it's more of an instictive feeding trigger behavior that I saw. As most older members know, I used to run a TON of current in my tanks, something like 10,000 gph in a 150. The goonch and atf loved it. The goonch parked itself on some rocks in the strongest, most violent part of the current. When one of the other fish would let the current push it past the goonch, the cat would sometimes dart out and sometimes bite. It would never finish the attack when the prey item was large. A few other fish lost the lower lobe of their caudal fin this way.
Just an observation. If you're not running the same hurricane wind in your tank that I was, you might not be able to trigger this behavior. Worth noting either way.
Just an observation. If you're not running the same hurricane wind in your tank that I was, you might not be able to trigger this behavior. Worth noting either way.