Cat_back_n_the_sea
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I have a cat shark who’s probably about 28 inches so definitely not a baby. He loves to lay right on top of a very large toad stool coral that shares his tank. I use to go through great lengths to try to keep him off it, mostly because I thought his constant laying on it would stress the coral out. Nothing works, I moved it over by the eels thinking since he didn’t really care to be around the eels, he would finally leave it alone. That didn’t work, he just muscled the eels from their territory and continued laying on the toad stool. I constructed a make shift cage from a lg plastic basket for the toad stool, he basically bull dozed his way through the cage & again continued laying on the toad stool. As a last ditch effort I moved the toad stool to the very top of our aqua scape figuring he would leave alone since he is a bottom dwelling shark but I just found him the very next morning at the top wrapped around the toad stool & the aqua scape like a cliff hanging puppy. I have finally given up & figured if our toad stool has endured 6 months of this with no visible signs of stress or damage he’ll probably be ok. My question is, why is this shark so obsessed with this toad stool coral? I was under the assumption that toad stools can sting a bit, so why does the shark insist on sleeping on it & I don’t mean just hovering but full under belly contact with the toad stool ? Any insight into this matter would be greatly appreciated tyia
Pic of him muscling one of our eels away from his toad stool, which was the only time out toad seemed shrunken & stressed, so we immediately moved it back to its original spot in the tank, away from the eels
Pic of him muscling one of our eels away from his toad stool, which was the only time out toad seemed shrunken & stressed, so we immediately moved it back to its original spot in the tank, away from the eels
