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gulpercatfish tankmates

Posted: 10 Oct 2011, 00:48
by 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 :d

Re: gulpercatfish tankmates

Posted: 10 Oct 2011, 14:19
by 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

Re: gulpercatfish tankmates

Posted: 11 Oct 2011, 09:35
by Jools
Hi lovecatfish4928,

Do you mean , or maybe even 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

Re: gulpercatfish tankmates

Posted: 12 Oct 2011, 05:41
by lovecatfish4928
My gulpers are Asterophysus Batrachus and was thinking about adding a large pleco!! They are in a 56 column tank

Re: gulpercatfish tankmates

Posted: 12 Oct 2011, 08:52
by sidguppy
56 gallon?

a bit small to add big pleco's then

Re: gulpercatfish tankmates

Posted: 12 Oct 2011, 16:49
by lovecatfish4928
yep now thinking of some small quick dither fish that is too quick for my lazy gulpers

Re: gulpercatfish tankmates

Posted: 12 Oct 2011, 16:58
by sidguppy
that won't work; at night small quick fish will turn sleepy and the gulpers sure know how to catch em then

Re: gulpercatfish tankmates

Posted: 13 Oct 2011, 05:52
by lovecatfish4928
would a raphaeal catfish be okay with these guys

Re: gulpercatfish tankmates

Posted: 13 Oct 2011, 06:13
by 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.

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Re: gulpercatfish tankmates

Posted: 21 Jan 2013, 12:52
by 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)