Baby Black Piranha

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X3R0X said:
I have 10 Rhoms in my 55 and they are doing just fine they act like nice community fish.... :)
If that is true check them again because they are probably black pacu.
Smiley, we aren't slamming you for not knowing and I have had a lfs clerk tell me serrasalmus elongatus make great schooling fish which ends up the same way as with the blacks,ie. one fat fish and a dent in the wallet. If you want a shoal of piranha go with red bellies and even then expect to lose a couple. You could get away with keeping one adult black (rhombeus) piranha in a 55g tank for life.
 
Serrasalmus rhombeus can only be kept together in large public aquariums. I highly doubt you are keeping black piranha in a shoal.

Please provide images of your so-called baby black piranha, if they haven't eaten each other. ;)
 
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