13" Black Piranha
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i was thinking the same thing. i have a 14" one i was going to sell but decided to keep. i *think* he/she was digging in my gravel a few times to make a nest, but i am NOT 100% sure on that. i think that would be the best way to sex a male, nest building. i have bred both red bellies and gold piranhas (spilos/macs) and that is what the male does when he gets ready to breed. it only happened a few times though, so it could just be easily another behavior for him/her.
i've heard of people trying it before and never have it working. one would have to have an enormous tank, i would think, and even then i think there is a good chance of one killing the other.
i havn't seen that, though, before, in several years of only raising piranhas...laying eggs.
i am tempted to raise the temp in my tank, just to see if the one i have starts nest building.
and even then, with both eggs and a willing male, it would probably still be a real long shot.
the only p's i have heard of being bred are red bellies, golds (not too hard for those two species), and caribe and ternetzi very very rarely.
i've heard of people trying it before and never have it working. one would have to have an enormous tank, i would think, and even then i think there is a good chance of one killing the other.
i havn't seen that, though, before, in several years of only raising piranhas...laying eggs.
i am tempted to raise the temp in my tank, just to see if the one i have starts nest building.
and even then, with both eggs and a willing male, it would probably still be a real long shot.
the only p's i have heard of being bred are red bellies, golds (not too hard for those two species), and caribe and ternetzi very very rarely.
demjor19;3126649; said:Sell your Dovii...I'm not sellin mine!
how bout you leave that between the dovii and Rhom to decide who stays 
nice rhom by the way always wanted one
demjor19;3129364; said:Thanks! My Dovii is mean as hell! You may be suprised at that outcome!
mine are too...... been there done that...... when that piranha starts to bite those fins it will make you cry
and you will take it out b4 you get to see the outcome 
LOPAKA;3129400; said:mine are too...... been there done that...... when that piranha starts to bite those fins it will make you cry
Fortunately these two fish will never see each other, so I'll never know.
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