The title pretty much says it all. I was at petsmart and the aquarium department kid was telling me a story about a man who came in a few hours earlier with an oscar who had been housed with a cory. The cory had been missing for awhile and was assumed eaten, then the oscar turned up dead with a whole in his gut and the cory was back. Now my cory's don't look like they could take on the inner lining of a big fish's stomach but what do you guys think, fact or fiction?
Oscar who eats a cory who eats an oscar
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Hmmm....interesting. 
I'm equally divided on this one but we can look at a few key points:
*Fish dont need air like we do, so provided the Corydora wasn't munched up on the way down I would think he would be able to survive for a short time.
*Corydoras can munch their way through things if they're hungry and determined. I've seen what mine can do to flakes, worms, and waffers!
*On the other hand, Oscars are vicious and probably tore the fish up unless in the event that he swallowed the Corydora whole...not sure on this one.
I'm equally divided on this one but we can look at a few key points:
*Fish dont need air like we do, so provided the Corydora wasn't munched up on the way down I would think he would be able to survive for a short time.
*Corydoras can munch their way through things if they're hungry and determined. I've seen what mine can do to flakes, worms, and waffers!
*On the other hand, Oscars are vicious and probably tore the fish up unless in the event that he swallowed the Corydora whole...not sure on this one.
Iv seen oscars swollow goldfish whole, PROBABLY bigger then the cory was. but its possible chewing happens after the mouth is closed. But even if the cory made inside the oscar, i dont see how it could have torn its way out in the time it would have begun to be digested.
I do know that cories have very sharp spines on the end of their fins to prevent getting swallowed. It is possible that the oscar choaked to death trying to swallow the cory and once dead the cory escaped. As far as eating a hole through the stomach to escape that is highly improbable.
My oscar tears anything that goes in his mouth to pieces. Even hard pellets you can HEAR crunching through the glass once his mouth is closed. I find it hard to believe that anything would make it to the stomach without being mutilated. When Gulp eats goldfish, scales and other parts come out the gills as he is chewing.....same with pellets. Maybe, just maybe, that particular oscar swallowed a little too hard and the cory made it past his "teeth" though. But I that is a very small maybe in my book. 
I could possibly see it happening if it was massive oscar and a tiny, tiny cory (why those two would be in the same aquarium I have no idea......). If it was a small oscar in the same tank as a cory.....I can almost guarantee "chewage". Just mine and Gulp's opinion.
I could possibly see it happening if it was massive oscar and a tiny, tiny cory (why those two would be in the same aquarium I have no idea......). If it was a small oscar in the same tank as a cory.....I can almost guarantee "chewage". Just mine and Gulp's opinion.
i've heard alot of stories about cories who extended their spines while getting swallowed by oscars and instead got "wedged in".
what else was in the tank? i don't think i buy it.
what else was in the tank? i don't think i buy it.
no way, i feed my oscar giant crayfish, they are alive and kickin, with claws like that youd figure they would be able to chew there way out. i dont believe it.
