I’m considering a trade for one about 14”. My concern is I have a kelberi and a bay snook about 7-8” and pim blochi about 6-7”. Think they’ll be ok or are these catfish eating machines?
How voracious are sun/eclipse catfish
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My old eclipse wasn’t a voracious catfish. Was aggressive but not like a vulture cat. It was about 8-10inches. Got along with my bichirs and old red wolf fish. Come out at night mainly or when food was out and retreat back to its hiding spot during the day. Don’t think the mouth is big enough to eat ur fish. Will have some squabbles with the blochii due to same area of swimming zone. That’s a good sized eclipse cat too so nice to see one that size.
IDK what to make of it but the photo above is taken from Planet Catfish Cat-eLog and depicts a black collared catfish, not sun catfish, same genus but different species: https://www.planetcatfish.com/common/species.php?species_id=33
Our sun catfish are voracious, that is they love their food and feed until round. They do not prey on tank mates they cannot swallow. They can be territorial in smaller tanks.
Our sun catfish are voracious, that is they love their food and feed until round. They do not prey on tank mates they cannot swallow. They can be territorial in smaller tanks.
Thanks, that’s interesting about the pic. I’m going to have to look into that since that’s the pic the guy that wants to trade sent me.
I saw that, I’ll ask him about it. Thanks for the heads up!
Guess he’s hard to get a picture of but he got this
Well I made the trade, so far so good
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