View Full Version : PIRANHAS LOVE THEM OR HATE THEM ? AND WHY ?
DanDanUK
06-08-2005, 5:07 AM
Piranhas Love Them ? :hearts: Or Hate Them ? :angryfire And Why?
Ph0etus
06-08-2005, 5:53 AM
I like them. I plan on setting up a tank for Serrasalmus geryi (violet-line piranha) later on down the road. Although they're not "true" piranhas they're probably my favorites.
lophius
06-08-2005, 7:20 AM
like em too ... keep a fair variety at the mo, all individual specimens
carl
iheartfishies
06-08-2005, 8:50 AM
Dislike.
Just do.
Steve_89
06-08-2005, 9:07 AM
Dislike.
Just do.
Me to.
I dont know why, just somthing about them that never has interested me.
I like em.
Singles are quirky and odd.
Groups are interesting, given the right circumstances.
piranha45
06-08-2005, 9:27 AM
I like them; I find them physically beautiful, and I enjoy their vastly-overrated carnivorous tendencies.
mpgleisten
06-08-2005, 11:50 AM
love them. started with pygos but had more interest in solitary serra species. here is my pride and joy 7" diamond high back rhom. a lot of piranha behavior is overrated but this guy will chase me when i walk beside his tank and bites the magnetic algae scraper just like a central american cichlid.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v186/mpgleisten/rhomcrped.jpg
buddah101
06-08-2005, 12:03 PM
I bought one (pygo) out of curiosity and cuz I had an empty tank but I'm thinkin of takin' it back. Too messy!
Ikhan Bettah
06-08-2005, 12:51 PM
Love them! they are very fascinating fish.
rayman45
06-08-2005, 5:00 PM
:angryfire
i said so
redtailfool
06-08-2005, 8:20 PM
Boring. I would keep monster ones like 9 inch plus payaras
or a 11 inch and bigger Rhom.
mpgleisten
06-08-2005, 8:24 PM
its all luck with them, ive had a boring skittish elongatus and really active outgoing rhoms and spilos. my irritan was the worst as far as behavior goes.
redtailfool
06-08-2005, 8:27 PM
its all luck with them, ive had a boring skittish elongatus and really active outgoing rhoms and spilos. my irritan was the worst as far as behavior goes.
Theyre interesting but they get skittish as hell. I hate it when you turn the lights
on at a room, or walk past a p tank and hear ps bumping all of the place :mad:
eric678us
06-08-2005, 11:29 PM
Anyone have experience keeping P. Piraya? I saw some yesterday and they were beautiful.
eric678us
06-08-2005, 11:30 PM
What size tank do you have that guy in?
civic93
06-08-2005, 11:31 PM
i hate them. i use to think they were cool until i owned one. they are scared of everything. nothing like people make them out to be.
jayv72
06-11-2005, 6:16 PM
I use to love them. Then I owned six red bellies and one black. They were cool to watch when they ate, but other than that all they did was hide and freak out anytime you got close to the tank.
j to the hart
06-20-2005, 10:07 PM
love them too!!! they are great fish to have in my opinion, because they tear things to pieces yet still r beautiful...
robby
06-21-2005, 12:48 AM
They're cool enough, big tetras with big teeth. You don't see them too often down here (never in stores), so it's always a treat when you do.I wouldn't mind having a few, but it's not worth my job and the hefty fine I'd be risking. I wish we had a personal licensing system for keeping certain fish down here (a system that was idiot-proof, somehow), but it's not a perfect world yet. I'd really rather have a pond with plexiglass sides and African tiger fish in it, but I'm just dreamin.
i wouldn't mine a cariba shoal again or a monster rhom 12" plus...........
neoprodigy
06-21-2005, 10:33 AM
boring...
mpgleisten
06-23-2005, 1:03 AM
boring...
:mad:
frontosa_man
06-23-2005, 1:23 AM
they can be fun to have around just because they are so over rated.
we have sound
06-24-2005, 8:52 AM
I love them but they can be frustrating if you get constantly lethargic ones. I prefer Pygo's to serras.
CT
coolermaster
06-25-2005, 8:02 AM
so many variants.. i love rhoms especially! :)
faebo_tarzan
07-05-2005, 9:58 AM
If u only have a few piranhas they would not be very funny to watch. But if u really can handle them right and provide them with hiding areas etc. they would not be so shy. Theres too many people who´s buying only 1 and expect it to eat up a whole rat or something by itself.
sk1417
07-05-2005, 4:48 PM
love them cos they're a banned lot in sg! closest we get here's e pacu... n just the red, not even the black...
If u only have a few piranhas they would not be very funny to watch. But if u really can handle them right and provide them with hiding areas etc. they would not be so shy. Theres too many people who´s buying only 1 and expect it to eat up a whole rat or something by itself.
Yep, and they are just plain pretty.
The Dude
07-06-2005, 12:34 PM
I like 'em. Sure they're skittish and some would say ugly, but I've always wanted a brandtii and a school of nats.
redtailfool
07-06-2005, 12:39 PM
so many variants.. i love rhoms especially! :)
Rhoms rock ! Large Ps rock ..
i find P's very interesting. hoping to get a tank of red bellys going soon. just need to find a tank to keep them in :X
love em, they are one of the most popular specimen out there with strong bodies
Mechanic
07-16-2005, 10:44 AM
Yep, I agree.
They have some interesting behaviour.
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swhiting
07-16-2005, 7:27 PM
HATE THEM!
1) I work in a public aquarium, everyone wants to see them eat, its not all that exciting.
2) Too many people want them around here and their illegal so we get all the confiscations, I was once in the care of 586 young redbellies, sure they were fun to see eat at that number, but ugh, I'm sick of piranhas.
3) No matter what or how often you feed them, they almost always find a reason to eat a couple of their buddies on a regular basis.
tropicalfishguy
07-16-2005, 11:49 PM
I like them. Its interseting to see them hunt in a pack and work together for supper. Only thing I don't care for it most are skittish, although I have six red bellies about 2-3" and they currently eat out of my hand. Hopefuly they stay this friendly with me :)
reefman
07-17-2005, 12:04 AM
there alright I had 13 nats and a rhom in a 125 I use to feed them 10 inch bass it was cool to see them hunt but way to skiddish
No Thanks. They remind me of mini pacu's that eat feeder fish, big deal.. and I HATE Pacus. I think too many people enjoy telling friends 'I have pirhanas.' They are a great conversation peice, and entertaining to watch feed. Eventually they grow old, especially feeding time, and you realize they are just glorified tetras. I could also get some huge bala sharks and tell everyone 'I have sharks.' and teach them to eat feeder guppies.
Thats my opinion :)
No Thanks. They remind me of mini pacu's that eat feeder fish, big deal.. and I HATE Pacus. I think too many people enjoy telling friends 'I have pirhanas.' They are a great conversation peice, and entertaining to watch feed. Eventually they grow old, especially feeding time, and you realize they are just glorified tetras. I could also get some huge bala sharks and tell everyone 'I have sharks.' and teach them to eat feeder guppies.
Thats my opinion :)
Now if you could get the guppies to eat rbps...,that would be cool.
I once met a guy who taught his large comet feeder fish (12") to eat small comet feeder fish. It was the most ironic idiocy I have ever seen.
I once met a guy who taught his large comet feeder fish (12") to eat small comet feeder fish. It was the most ironic idiocy I have ever seen.
I like it!
JESTERX626
07-24-2005, 10:55 PM
i love em, im just fascinated with em. im getting 5 rbp's in my tank soon =D.
RhomBeusBoi
08-01-2005, 6:10 PM
A shoal of Geryis
hate it or love it the underfish is on top
wickedworm76
08-17-2005, 12:39 PM
i like em. im actually thinking of buying some over the wekend.
CrAcKaJaP
08-17-2005, 1:45 PM
i love the three red bellies we have and wish i could find a few more. unfortunately they are illeagal here in texas. we just lucked in to finding them in the first place.
yes they are very skittish, but they are beautiful and have such neat personalities.
love em! wish i had a couple more! :)
Just1nK4ng
08-25-2005, 5:03 AM
there pretty cool i guess there nature is to stay in a spot and swim in the current and move around the tank when hungry and course needs a place to rest
KevinFJB
09-03-2005, 9:57 PM
Love them - amazingly evolved predator
TaratronVaeVictus
09-17-2005, 9:39 PM
Veyr dull fish, in my opinion...I neither love nor hate them; to me, and this will probably bring the furies of hell down, but alas, to me, RBP, the only piranhas I have direct experience with, are suited to being display fish. They are not active fish, not particularly interesting fish; perhaps if one had a very large pool with several dozen, the intraspecies interactions would be something to watch. Otherwise...dull. I'd much rather watch the squabblings of shelldweller cichlids.
sandtiger
09-17-2005, 10:32 PM
I like em just fine but I don't think I will ever own them, they honestly don't seem any better then any other tetra. The only one I would make an exception for is the back rhom. I think they are very nice looking and being loners is a pluse for me as well.
Veyr dull fish, in my opinion...I neither love nor hate them; to me, and this will probably bring the furies of hell down, but alas, to me, RBP, the only piranhas I have direct experience with, are suited to being display fish. They are not active fish, not particularly interesting fish; perhaps if one had a very large pool with several dozen, the intraspecies interactions would be something to watch. Otherwise...dull. I'd much rather watch the squabblings of shelldweller cichlids.
Dull but pretty
Ripdevil
09-18-2005, 6:53 PM
since starting my hobby of fish just a year ago or so, i have had my fair share of piranhas, actually many of them. at first the idea of them really interested me.
i had a couple different single species serras at different times, and never had to good of a time with them, usually boring. and i also had some smaller shoals of pygos, most recently 5 cariba, but againt they get kind of boring. once they are 5 inches no matter what species, their growth slows dramitcally. thats what i like is watching growth, so i think the only thing that would interest me at this point is buying them big, like a 12+ inch Rhom.
So instead i have decided to get into Ciclids and aros.
tothna
09-18-2005, 8:31 PM
Hate em, I had two RB and they were the most boring fish I've ever seen. All they did was sit in the corner all day. I had them for three months and saw them eat twice, and that was when I turned all of the lights in the room off and stood where they couldn't see me and sat and waited like 20 min
They are a three second fish. Ooh pretty..... three seconds later your looking for a pond to through the damn things in. Puffers are fun to whatch eat. Piranhas are just poop fish.
vinniegambini
09-22-2005, 1:56 PM
Love them. They put on a great feeding show when company is over. :headbang2
Hiya Vinnie, welcome to MFK, I think that the people who are disapointed in them just expected to much. To many old adventure movies.
xdefton3sx
10-17-2005, 1:38 PM
maybe i got lucky, cause my 2 pygos arn't skittish at all! And overrated tetra? A 12 " black rhom is not an overrated tetra!
love them but i dont keep them anymore i did think about getting a manny recently but then decided against it.
i have kept quite a few species of p's now but sorta lost interest when i found asian aro's.
dixon
xdefton3sx
10-18-2005, 1:57 AM
i'm already thinking of getting an elong!
steve1337
10-24-2005, 10:16 PM
IMO:
Any fish that strikes fear into man is welcome in my aquarium... :thumbsup:
gomezladdams
10-24-2005, 11:06 PM
:grinyes: love them. saw a school of red bellies at the Baltimore Aquarium.Thought they were beautiful and interesting.I would love a school of them if I could get them.Theyre illegal in ny :(
Siemens2
10-25-2005, 11:07 PM
Great school fish, but boring as solitary. A 150 with a school is a great sight.
i said no
10-27-2005, 1:05 PM
Gotta love em-
A fish is a fish, i dont even understand debate (no dis intended like the thread just like 2 get soap box out now and again) u like this, dont like that, thats human nature ! it is a hobby 2 keep fish, they not toys, u cant 'play' with them, they are not there impress people, keep fish 4 right reasons and there all great, from a goldfish which some use as feeders, while others show loving and attentive care for years right up 2 sharks !As for living up 2 a rep, your fault for believeing hype , piranhas of all types when kept in correct conditions are Amazing ! have a look at large aquarium display of Pygros , my local have 100 Nats all above 12 inches in a huge tank, can stand there 4 ages ! theres no song and dance unless feeding, just a sight 2 behold. I keep large black P , one minute he will b chasing the dog up and down tank , next wont move for ages! ( right now he has face pressed up against glass watching my mouse hand!) . As for the reds i have kept 6 natts for 2 years, although fairly easy 2 spook when comfortable more than 90 percent of the time they are a formidable shoal of fish even a huge chunk of steak was revaged like a burger at a kids party! Have kept lots of other fish Arowanas, dorado,oscars and other cichlids mixed community tanks my favs are ps , yours may not be- bad luck! :naughty: