Can a 6"-8" featherfin catfish (synodontis eupterus) eat a bunch of little tiny tetras, cory cats, gobies,and guppies?? Here's a pic of 1 very similar to mine. But its not my picture. Just FYI.
URGENT: Can this fish eat the rest of my fish?
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Guppies and tetras, maybe - if they're bumped into at night. It shouldn't bother the cories. What kind of gobies?
Rhinogobius Candidianus (I'm not worried about these guys their pretty big) and peacock gudgeons. The peacocks are small. But idc if they get eaten. And same size as tetras and guppies.
They (well at least mine) surface feed. Their bottom dwellers but mine swims upside-down at the top of the waterline and eats floating pellets. Synodontis is a genus of upsidedown catfish, its a trademark so the fish is not sick or anything. Just what it naturally does.
I had a synodontis just like this for a while, and I kept him in a 55 with some zebra danio, and mine never once showed any aggression towards them. Mine was a bottom dweller, and he usually fed off the bottom, however, whenever he was hungry, I would notice him eating some flakes off the top of the tank. Either way, flakes and pellets were his entire diet for the 3 years I had him.
Great fish, and in my experiences I would say that your fish are fine, but all catfish are liable to eat things that fit into their mouth, so, the possibility is there.
In that picture the fish looks absolutely terrified. Are you sure it's not really yours and has actually just met your killer Plec?
No, its just dumbfounded by the lack of research done before bigglesworth buys fish.