Im not saying your wrong. just saying stuff happens I didn't give lucky (the goldfish) 1 day. and lived for about 2 yrs. I agree prob not a good thing to have such a small cory with a rtc but who knows wat will happen. Not tryin to be a jerk or say your wrong just sharing my experiance.....I thought that goldfish/channel combo was pretty funny. idk
So how long to you think this will last...
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As long as you keep the Red tail fed, I would think the cory will be OK. I had some Blue Rams in with my 8''+ syno decorus and it was fine for months until I didn't feed for three days B/C of a power outage. The cat ate one of the rams. I don't think that would have happened if my pig wasn't hungry.
I used to have a small feeder guppy in my 33 long with a freshwater moray eel, two knight gobies and a dragon goby. It lasted for months and the eel would even come up to the guppy when I put in food and sniff the guppy to see if he was the food or not.
But IMO RTCs are eating machines. Even rocks are not safe in a tank with them.
But IMO RTCs are eating machines. Even rocks are not safe in a tank with them.
Keeping a Synodontis in a community with smaller fish is a piece of cake compared to trying to do the same with an RTC. I'd expect that in most cases, S. decorus would be fine with rams without any special treatment. Keekping an RTC from eating a cory is a totally different story.mcsnapper1;4693405; said:
magimango;4701619; said:I like that people get pissy that a cory could get eaten, yet in the same breath it is fine if it was a 'feeder fish' that was going to be killed. The definition of hypocrisy.
FINALLY! I feel the same. The OP obviously doesn't care if the cory gets eaten. So it is in nature, the big fishes eat up the little fishes (there's a little Shakespeare for ya).
I'm really not sure why people have to cry that it's irresponsible/bad fish keeping. I bought 10 t-barbs from a local, and tossed them to my Fahaka. He was a fat little guy for a while!
magimango;4701619; said:I like that people get pissy that a cory could get eaten, yet in the same breath it is fine if it was a 'feeder fish' that was going to be killed. The definition of hypocrisy.
Or maybe you're being narrow minded and choosing to completely ignore the different facets of the actual post.
Buying fish with the clear purpose to feed them to a carnivorous fish is vastly different from making a PET fish suddenly disposable because it's no long "worth" keeping or an inconvenience to deal with all of a sudden.
There should be a clear cut decision from the beginning, I don't think an animal bought as a PET should later become a feeder. A feeder is a feeder however and there's no sudden drastic change in what the fish keeper intends to do with them.
That's irresponsible in my opinion and you can interpret it far differently then I'm putting it out there. More power to you. I just don't think think actual pets should be replaceable, I think fish keepers should be responsible enough not to work themselves into situations like that if they can help it.
