Ripsaw/Niger Catfish question

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Will a 7" ripsaw/niger catfish go after and eat 3-4 inch clown loaches or are the clowns to fast for the catfish? Yes I know how big these catfish get and you need a gazillion gallon tank for them. There's already a pond lined up for the catfish once it outgrows my 300.
 

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Will a 7" ripsaw/niger catfish go after and eat 3-4 inch clown loaches or are the clowns to fast for the catfish? Yes I know how big these catfish get and you need a gazillion gallon tank for them. There's already a pond lined up for the catfish once it outgrows my 300.
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I doubt it.Nigers are more bottomfeeders than hunters in my experience with them and one would have to be quite a bit bigger than seven inches in order for it to engulf a 3 or 4 inch clown loach.
 

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Our hobby is a gamble and strange things do happen but I'd be in an utter shock, if a 4-foot niger ate a 3 inch clown loach. I imagine only if starved to near death...

Our 3.5' nigers in fact spit out thawed fish and fish pieces through gills, should they suck them in accidentally while fed a plenty of pellets to fill themselves with.

Nigers are decisively non-predatory and non-carnivorous given other feed.
 
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