Potential Gulper catfish tank mates

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J. H. said:
Maybe some fancy goldfish. They are not slender by any means, they grow large, are not very expensive unless you buy show fish, and are not nippy or carnivorous. I know I will get flak for this, but goldfish do not need cold water. Many of the fancies cannot even handle cold water. Fishbase has carassius auratus, the goldfish's wild ancestor, listed as living in water up to 41*C, or 105.8*F. People who breed them do so at around 78*F. They are fine with the gulper's water, and if you have a gulper, you need massive filtration and a good bit of water movement anyway.
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Fancy Goldfish!
I wrote the rant on another thread.
 
Hello everyone! Im sorry for the radio silence. So I got rid of the poly and changed it for a chlarius cat. Got the regular cow pattern one. It's already about 6-7" and swims a lot.
 
quasar said:
Hello everyone! Im sorry for the radio silence. So I got rid of the poly and changed it for a chlarius cat. Got the regular cow pattern one. It's already about 6-7" and swims a lot.
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If this is the new solution for a tankmate it won't work. Either it'll be eaten or it'll probably stress the gulper out, possibly fatally.
 
moe214 said:
If this is the new solution for a tankmate it won't work. Either it'll be eaten or it'll probably stress the gulper out, possibly fatally.
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Why would it stress the gulper? I'm not arguing and saying you're wrong. Im just wondering why the catfish wood stress it?
 
quasar said:
Why would it stress the gulper? I'm not arguing and saying you're wrong. Im just wondering why the catfish wood stress it?
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They're known to be aggressive and gulpers are pretty defnslesss. They don't have the attitude to fight back. With them it's flight no fight. They only posses predatory aggression.
 
So I didn't buy the catfish in the end. The owner offered me a trade regardless for the poly i brought so i took a pike cichlid. They had it as "amazon pike". IMG_20170407_175140073.jpg
 
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