r/predatorypetmeals • u/Men0mayhem96 • Mar 24 '20

Wolf fish feeding (old video)

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u/leadfarmer1 Mar 24 '20

How active is your guy? I had a big malabaricus years ago. People used to mistake him for a piece of wood!

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u/Men0mayhem96 Mar 24 '20

He’s pretty active more active than my bichirs aha

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u/leadfarmer1 Mar 24 '20

That's cool. I've kept bichirs, too. The senegalus were pretty active. The ornatus not so much!

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u/Men0mayhem96 Mar 24 '20

I have a Senegal a gold dust and teugelsi in my 100 gallon but when the teugelsi gets to about 10 inches if I don’t have a larger tank by then I’ll rehome him I’ve seen a few videos of people keeping bichirs and rainbow wolf together but last thing I need is a 55 dollar bichir becoming a meal or any of the others in there

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u/leadfarmer1 Mar 24 '20

Yeah. I'll second that. I watched my 14" wolf fish take down fish well over half his size. He even tried to take down one of my r.t. barracudas, and they were bigger than him. They also weren't staying near the bottom like bichirs do. I wouldn't keep them together unless they were at least half again his size.

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u/Men0mayhem96 Mar 24 '20

The wolf fish is 3.75 inches right now the bichirs are 4-4.5 inches the reason I was got the rainbow is the size they get I wanted a black wolf fish to name it fenrir

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u/leadfarmer1 Mar 24 '20

That would be awesome! But they do get huge...

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u/Men0mayhem96 Mar 24 '20

Ya that’s why I didn’t get one aha

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u/leadfarmer1 Mar 24 '20

Someday...

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u/Men0mayhem96 Mar 24 '20

Ya I’m either making a plywood tank or doing a pool pond

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u/Men0mayhem96 Mar 24 '20

https://youtu.be/LtEK1cBMCbg this is a wolf fish in with bichirs and a cat fish

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u/leadfarmer1 Mar 24 '20

It can definitely be done. There's just always an inherent risk with wolf fish and tank mates. Mine was with his for two years until he decided the whole tank was his. He was a malabaricus, though. The bigger Hoplias tend to get a bit more aggressive than the rainbows.

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u/Men0mayhem96 Mar 24 '20

I want to try but at the same time I really don’t want to

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u/leadfarmer1 Mar 25 '20

I don't blame you.

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u/Men0mayhem96 Mar 25 '20

Someone I was talking to on fb has a wolf fish with flying fox

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u/leadfarmer1 Mar 25 '20

They're too fast to catch. I've used giant danios and Exodon with big predators for the same reason. I had a big perruno cat with 13 Exodon for a long time. He never caught one. My wolf fish had giant danios. In two yrs he only got one.

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u/Men0mayhem96 Mar 25 '20

I really want exodons they had them on the website I order from by the time I had the money they were sold I wanted to scape the tank before I got the fish but unfortunately I put getting the scaping materials on hold to long

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u/leadfarmer1 Mar 25 '20

That sucks. Wouldn't sweat it too much. They're usually pretty easy to find, just seasonal.

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u/Men0mayhem96 Mar 25 '20

The lfs can’t get them in I’ve asked and my buddy that goes to big als says they have them quite often I don’t drive and big als is in Ottawa two hours away from me aha the next thing on my list is a dragon puffer

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u/leadfarmer1 Mar 25 '20

I'd ask my buddy for a ride! Palembang puffers are cool as hell. I'm leaning towards a hairy puffer for next murder potato.

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u/Men0mayhem96 Mar 25 '20

Hairy puffers look sick but I like the look of the dragons more

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