What is this gulper catfish eating?
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Looks like a Clarias cat; really a dangerous food item. Three heavy-duty spines locked at 90 degrees to the body, combined with the thrashing of the fish as it goes down, makes it very easy for the body of the predator to be punctured from the inside.
Judging from the soundtrack, I'd say the Clarias was the luckier of these two...
Judging from the soundtrack, I'd say the Clarias was the luckier of these two...
I did not think my gulper would eat a larger catfish but he ate a larger sun cat. He was okay after. The spine spike does not seem to phase them. Someone had a gulper cat eat a TSN catfish and the catfish came out of the gulpers belly. yet the gulper survived/ Makes no sense. It is a stupid thing to do. I did not think mine would eat a larger catfish back then. I am looking for books on these fish. I want to understand their wild diet. How are they able to eat fish with huge spines?
From tiniest little I've heard they feed on angels as one of the usual prey in the wild.
Puncturing a stomach from inside out in the open - that a predatory catfish can handle and live (I had other catfish, e.g., 10" wallago attu eat a 5" wyckii catfish and survive that just fine) but the spine can also puncture inside toward a vital organ - that cannot be handled.
Feeding gulper large spiny prey is a russian roulette. Sooner or later, the round will end up in the chamber...
Puncturing a stomach from inside out in the open - that a predatory catfish can handle and live (I had other catfish, e.g., 10" wallago attu eat a 5" wyckii catfish and survive that just fine) but the spine can also puncture inside toward a vital organ - that cannot be handled.
Feeding gulper large spiny prey is a russian roulette. Sooner or later, the round will end up in the chamber...
How does a gulper survive having its stomach bust open? There is a huge hole in his stomach and another fishes head poking out. How does he heal?
In my post I was talking about a prey spine puncturing the predator and emerging out in the open.
I think the case you are asking about is how the gulper survived when the TSN it ate poked its whole skull out the gulper. First, IDK if this is true that the gulper lived, I am not quick to trust people's word, especially those people who I don't know and who are YouTubers. Second, if it did live that'd be miraculous in my one-page book but it could be also because of my ignorance, maybe it is not so unusual for gulpers, it's a very specific area to know anything about.
Have you done a search for this? Google, forums, fb, mfk, planet catfish, etc.? We need more data.
What I reported with attu and wyckii happened in my tank. As the attu kept digesting the wyckii, little by little the spine was withdrawing inside until it disappeared and the hole closed up quickly and healed.
I think the case you are asking about is how the gulper survived when the TSN it ate poked its whole skull out the gulper. First, IDK if this is true that the gulper lived, I am not quick to trust people's word, especially those people who I don't know and who are YouTubers. Second, if it did live that'd be miraculous in my one-page book but it could be also because of my ignorance, maybe it is not so unusual for gulpers, it's a very specific area to know anything about.
Have you done a search for this? Google, forums, fb, mfk, planet catfish, etc.? We need more data.
What I reported with attu and wyckii happened in my tank. As the attu kept digesting the wyckii, little by little the spine was withdrawing inside until it disappeared and the hole closed up quickly and healed.
There was an instance where a pike caught and swallowed another pike...not uncommon, by the way. But in this case, the inside pike (the eatee) burst out through the side of its attacker (the eater), and then squirmed around and seized the eater's head in its (the eatee's) mouth. This created a sort of piscine Moebius strip; a third fish then attacked the combo, and this violent attack resulted in the formation of a hole in the space-time continuum into which the entire mess of fish disappeared, never to be seen again. Sadly, no photos were taken, so there exists no actual physical evidence of the miraculous event.
But it's true; I read it on the internet.
But it's true; I read it on the internet.
