newbie here.. I'm still new with keeping catfishes i have a clarias and a TSN. I put my TSN together with my spotted gar and oscar. My Shovel nose is about 4-5" while my Oscar is 6-7". My Oscar does not seems to bother my TSN but it keeps freaking out everytime my Oscar comes near it. Is it advisable to keep my Oscar with my TSN?
TSN and an Oscar compatibility
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Ha. The oscar might be a little bigger right now, but the TSN has a faster growth rate. eventually the TSN will grow large enough to eat or kill the oscar, no questions asked unless you seperate them.
ummm its alright for now...just make sure that the oscar is wayyyy bigger than he TSN in terms of length and girth and even height. the minute u can mentally picture the oscar becoming a snack u will need another tank and fast!
If you can imagine that Oscar becoming a snack .. it's to late... prob already happened LOL ... TSN will take out fish bigger than it and if it can't because it's to much of a difference... it will wait .. till it grows...and they grow so fast that it'll knock off the Oscar before you realized that it was going to happen ... just a thought!
I have 1 Channel(18"), 2 tsn(18" and 16"), 1 jau(18"), 1 rtc(16.5"), 1 pleco(13"), 2 oscars(14", and 12"), and 1 jaguar cichlid(14.5"), and 1 ckf(16") all in my 1100 gal pond. The way I see it is that the oscars are way too tall to fit even sideways in my tsn or any other fish in that tanks mouth. There is no aggression between any of the fish except the jau likes to pic on the channel, and rtc. The TSNs never bother anyone, they are the most mellow fish I have. They just wait on their shrimp to be handfed to them, and the rest of the time they lay in their hiding spots. The oscars swim around looking for pellets that I throw in for them. Here's the thing my biggest tsn is 18" which is 4" longer than my biggest oscar, but yet his head is like maybe, and I say maybe
2.5-3" wide. The oscar is probably 5-6" tall and 2" thick. There's no way in hell they are getting eaten for a long time to come. Their major threat would be the rtc, and the jau. The rtc is only 16" but his head is already 3.5-4" wide. In another 6 months or so I would say that my oscars days are numbered, except I hope to have my bigger pond up and running by then, and my oscars can go in the 350 gal pond. I started with already large oscars though. They were already like 8" each when I got the first TSN at 3". Hope this helps put some perspective on things. Again aggression is not the problem unless in a small tank, but in the future like 6 months to a year from now the oscars might be chow, but they are not too expensive, plus they are not catfish lol. I can always find people around here who say their oscars are too big for their 10-30 gals, and get them for free, but no one in montana save for me has RTC.
2.5-3" wide. The oscar is probably 5-6" tall and 2" thick. There's no way in hell they are getting eaten for a long time to come. Their major threat would be the rtc, and the jau. The rtc is only 16" but his head is already 3.5-4" wide. In another 6 months or so I would say that my oscars days are numbered, except I hope to have my bigger pond up and running by then, and my oscars can go in the 350 gal pond. I started with already large oscars though. They were already like 8" each when I got the first TSN at 3". Hope this helps put some perspective on things. Again aggression is not the problem unless in a small tank, but in the future like 6 months to a year from now the oscars might be chow, but they are not too expensive, plus they are not catfish lol. I can always find people around here who say their oscars are too big for their 10-30 gals, and get them for free, but no one in montana save for me has RTC.
necrocanis;1300320; said:
Necro All good points but You have to remember that you've had cats ALONG time and know when to make sure they are fed (which lowers the possibility of attacks, doesn't eliminate it but lowers it) As well...if you have Oscars that are to pushy(invading personal space) You can bet that none of the cats you have will take long to push back... In your pond you also have ALOT of space for them to lessen the chances of aggression. I'm sure you have actualy lost some fish to a TSN since you've had them...
From what was written the TSN is already showing signs of stress when the Oscar comes around which is a fish that could quite possibly make a nice belly ornament
and that TSN is going to gain size ALOT fast than the Oscar which basically means meal in my book.
Maybe, but I have never lost a fish to my TSN. I know what size that I can keep with them. On the other hand I have lost several fish to my jau. That thing is the most aggressive fish I have ever owned, but even he doesn't mess with the oscars or jaguar.