Fish Fight!

These are the Pleco and Catfish in my aquarium going ballistic on each other! These fish have co-habitated since they were both less then an inch long and for some reason they are fighting today. They have always taken little hits on each other, but I have never seen violence on this scale. I am distressed by this, and hope that if there is anyone out there who knows anything about these specific fish they might let me know if it is imperative that I separate them. The pleco is the ordinary kind, but the catfish was sold as a Cory Catfish, which it is most clearly not and I just don't know what it is. The people at the store had no idea either. I have only seen one other like it in my life and it was living in a tank with some chiclids and the owner of that tank had no idea either. This aggression is not usual for these guys though, and I do wish to prevent it in the future as much as I don't want to part with either of these. It may have been triggered perhaps by the water change that I had done about a half hour before I shot this video.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• fish
• fighting
• aquarium
• pets
• catfish
• pleco
• freshwater

[hUnnYbUn2777]

Thats wierd ive never seen plecos that agressive either, like you said he bumps into other fish but never acts like that. Somebody must have taken the other ones algae wafer... lol

Can I ask what that active fish swimming at the top are?

[goodproblems]

esox66 is right, they are giant danios. I really recommend them if you want a more exciting community. I got six of them over a year ago and thy have been very hearty, and kind of notched up the general activity in the tank. Make sure they have enough room, they are fast swimmers and like a stronger current in the tank so I put my filter on a higher setting for them.

[rba718]

All I can say is maybe try getting a bigger tank. How big is your tank btw?

[goodproblems]

46 gallons

[Bradshaw44]

i think there having sex. and the plecco is winning! lol

[jack1665]

the catfish is an Eupterus or a Featherfin Synodontis.

[letnanfaw]

wakakakakk.....it's funny.....

[superfishman123]

who won

[amwjaguar]

Lol super sucker powers activate!

[superfishman123]

the pleco dominated

[SQUiZG4R]

hah just got my 1st pleco today, glad it won in this fight!

[tnutty222]

my goldfish did that to my gold loach, little fucker(goldfish) almost killed my loach, i was so tempted to fluch the goldfish >:O

anyway, nice pick of music :)

[NesteHukka]

Quite a match! I have seen pleco vs pleco fights on my own tank, but never seen fight with catfish. Smaller pleco ruled the catfish 6-0. Tough guys!

[stewiegriffin65]

Kinda a lose/lose battle. Catfish cant do much damage because of plecos armored scales, And plecos mouth is pretty rough but useless when it comes to bites.

[killer2611]

daaaaamn it was messy

[andYourblooblood]

No. This is not the case. Do some research before posting a dumb response.