gulpercatfish tankmates

[lovecatfish4928]

would a large pleco catfish be a good room mates too two gulper catfish (5 inch and a seven inch). Currently being hand feed

[Viktor Jarikov]

gulper is ambiguous

if they are astrophysus, then pleco better be larger than they are

if we are talking some kind of an ompok, the pleco should be at least half their size

[Jools]

Hi lovecatfish4928,

Do you mean

Asterophysus

,

Ompok

or maybe even

Ageneiosus

as all can be referred to as gulper catfish?

Let us know which one for some and I am sure the assistance will come flooding in!

Jools

[lovecatfish4928]

My gulpers are Asterophysus Batrachus and was thinking about adding a large pleco!! They are in a 56 column tank

[sidguppy]

56 gallon?

a bit small to add big pleco's then

[lovecatfish4928]

yep now thinking of some small quick dither fish that is too quick for my lazy gulpers

[sidguppy]

that won't work; at night small quick fish will turn sleepy and the gulpers sure know how to catch em then

[lovecatfish4928]

would a raphaeal catfish be okay with these guys

[racoll]

The cat-elog says they will try to eat anything up to about twice their size, so you're taking a big risk by keeping almost anything with them. I'm sure they're not adverse to eating each other either.

Plus, if the Asterophysus decides it's hungry, you may end up losing both fishes, not just one.

This picture says it all really.

[Viktor Jarikov]

6" gulper eats 13" black arowana; 3" gulper eats 8" leichardi arowana http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forum ... k-Arrowana

nice gulper write-up http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forum ... 1-Viewing)