Hi ZoomiesPB, I've kept several species of woodcat, and while I have observed fighting, I've never had obvious injuries like eyes bitten out. That said, I can't rule out that some of the deaths over the years weren't the result of fighting, either directly or indirectly by prolonged stress. Regards...

What other fish do you have in the tank? Also, shining a red light and watching after lights out can reveal a lot. my 2¢ So many! It's the 6 foot tank. Lots of plecos, 2 jaguar catfish, 3 tatia intermedia, 17 dwarf chain loach, about 12 checkerboard cichlids, 5 blue emperor tetras, 3 upside down ca...

Hello driftwood catfish keepers, Do any of you have experience with your tatia/centromochlus musicae fighting so badly that eyes have been lost? We are unsure if another fish in the tank has attacked this male, as we have not witnessed the fighting or the eyes being taken/eaten; so we are going on t...

I just came to say, yay, because, ninja woodcats.

Sure looks like a baby woodcat to me! Sorry for the loss of the male, but congratulations on finding a fry! Cheers, Eric Yeah, we don't know what happened, but the females are massive compared to what he was. The silver lining, if it is one, is that it's very interesting to see it in real life that...

Quite possibly. I have 3 T. Intermedia but haven't had any spawns yet. Awesome. Thanks! We have 3 female adults, two much mature than the other, so maybe one of those was the mum. Maybe dad didn't survive breeding, or something. But, we've luckily picked up a juvenile male, who seems to be doing hi...

She is about 6 weeks old and the only survivor. We are stunned because when the eggs were discovered there was no male in the tank, he had died maybe a month before; so we thought they were from a different driftwood catfish. But now she looks like an intermedia, for sure, right??