One of the group who are using feeder fish for a really cool project’s feeder fish died. So they gave the corpse to us to give to our fish. And as soon as it went in Oscar tried to grab it, but he’s only a baby Oscar so he couldn’t fit more than the head of the goldfish in his mouth. it took him about 2 hours to eat the head, and then he spat it out, now with it’s head sucked off. While Oscar had the feeder fish it’s mouth, one of the Jack Dempsey’s was taking little bites off both the feeder fish AND Oscar! Now Oscar is pretty mad at the Jack Dempsey, but hey, who wouldn’t if someone took a bit out of you!

Next it floated around in the tank for a while and then the fish picked it to the bone, leaving nothing but the scales, bones, and the skin supporting the scales. They truly are ferocious fish. I love them.

Be sure NOT to stick your finger in the tank, because they’ll probably try and eat your hand.