Yeah, as the title suggested. What monster fish in your experiences are so voracious and gluttonous that they'll try to eat anything, and they can, and they are going to, even if what it's trying to eat is just a little smaller than itself. In my own experience, alligator gars and red tail catfish. My alligator gars ate a silver arowana that was 3-4 inches shorter than itself. Also I saw an RTC attempted to eat an arapaima with the same length as itself. Do you guys have any more fish that'd fitted into this?
What monster fish in your experiences will try to eat anything even things that are just a bit smaller than itself?
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European Pike will eat its own kind same length, sometimes the tail sticks out 10cm from their mouths, ive seen them choke and die on prey too big
Ive seen one that held on a fish-eating bird (aalscholver in Dutch) and had boths its eyes poked out, it did not let go and both of them died in the process.
That bird was almost the size of an adult seagull, the Pike was probably 70cm (we get them up to +- 120cm here, biggest i caught was 94cm and "T H I C C")
I wanna have one though, but I don't know if they can adapt to Thailand's temperature.
Well here it gets up to 30 degrees Celsius in the summer, the water up to 20 celsius or so (sometimes a bit warmer in shallows)
If u could slowly make it adapt i bet it would work, theyre hardy fish, ive seen them with chunks missing still thriving.
Only thing i know is that when the water is very warm u dont want to keep them fighting on the hook too long or they might die, hasnt happened to me yet but i shoot a quick pic then release immediately.
But like i said my only experience with them is whilst fishing and out boating, theyre super cool fish, very hardy and extremely aggressive hunters / pretty territorial.
We use baits with a rattle in it sometimes if the fish dont want to bite, it will make them attack the lure instead of try to eat it, so u can still catch a fish thats not hungry just very pissed off.
Ive thought about keeping one in an aquarium but decided itd be too crazy for my 75g 160x50x50cm tank even if i could release it in the wild when it gets too big. it might literally bust the tank when it gets big enough (6mm glass eurobrace) because of how aggressive it hunts, it will 100% bang the glass while trying to get life fish.
So keep in mind that they are really cool, hardy but also really big and heavy (140cm+ is no exception in some waters i believe) and super aggressive, ofcourse thats why you like them, and so do i but you must keep in mind that a normal tank might not do it for these guys.
Also they can jump very high, 1 to 1,5m they are definitely able to when theyre about 50cm, i see it regularly when theyre hunting smaller fish, birds and insects
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Piranhas and Exodons come to mind. Exodons are more of scale/fin eaters but will easily go after something much larger than themselves. Pygocentrus piranhas will more typically attack smaller animals or scavenge off dead items, but are more than capable of eating fish their size and up.
Almost forgot about one, the bass we got here in the netherlands in the wild will go after 15cm lures when theyre 5cm themselves sometimes
I have a red oscar that I had to pull a jack dempsey out of his mouth because it was almost as big as he is lol