Sens... fin nippers or just curious/confused?

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I have two sens in a 75 gallon with an african knifefish, kribensis, and a recently bought african butterfly fish


I just saw one of my sens (the slightly more aggressive one) go up to the butterfly fish, float next to it for a few seconds, and then bite its tail. which made the butterfly fish scurry into the plants.

so is the sen just nipping fins? sizing him up to see if he can eat it (he can't)? just curious to "what the heck is that floating brown thing up there"?
 
chaulk that up to curiosity.

The butterfly could smell tasty ;D
 
I'd keep an eye on them but senegals are ussually totally benign to anything that doesn't fit in thier mouths...so probably just an accident...
 
cenecker;1103534; said:
I'd keep an eye on them but senegals are ussually totally benign to anything that doesn't fit in thier mouths...so probably just an accident...
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USUALLY. A friend had one around 20cm that mauled his slightly smaller delhezi's tail. He moved the senegal into another tank with a 30cm+ fire eel, and came in a day later to find the senegal clamped firmly onto the eels tail, with his body all twisted up doing some kind of death roll!! (like when you catch a big eel on a fishing line, and it twists up around the line) The eels tail was completely gone, and there was a lot of damage to its flesh, and it died about a week later. :(
That senegal was pure evil.
 
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