Best Deal On Piraya?

[Ohio Entusiast]

I just bought and am cycling a 480 gallon tank. I'm thinking of putting about 8 Piraya in it. I've looked at a few vendors and wondering if I've found the best deal. Thus far I'm seeing around $100 for 3'' fish.

Does anyone know of a better deal?

 

[dudey]

It will be hard to get them for under 90$. That is about the best price I have seen so far.

 

[Ohio Entusiast]

Thanks. I was more interested in hearing people's recommendations and experience with various vendors.

 

[hmoobvwj]

I say I've seen some good deals on Aquascape. Try contacting Pedro, he seems to have a lot of piranha species always in stock!

 

[dudey]

Shark Aquarium and Aqua Scape are pretty much the best when it comes to piranha's takes a little time for George at Shark to respond to emails and a get an order going in my experience, but as far as products both have great stock and great prices.

 

[jp80911]

never purchased from this vendor before but the price is the best so far.
http://www.tangledupincichlids.com/

he used to have ~4" for $65 each and now only 5-6" at $85 each. either he sold the smaller ones or they all got big.

SA doesn't have any small ones, went there a little over a week ago, think they are all around 5" or bigger, $125 or up.

 

[Ohio Entusiast]

Thanks for all the responses. The $85 deal is the best I've seen so far. I was hoping against hope I'd find them around $25 from some secret source but it don't look that way.
If I set this up the way I want it this will be the most impressive set-up I've had. I'm picturing 8-10 16'' monster Piraya living in my living room in a massive, well planted tank.

 

[jp80911]

Thanks for all the responses. The $85 deal is the best I've seen so far. I was hoping against hope I'd find them around $25 from some secret source but it don't look that way.
If I set this up the way I want it this will be the most impressive set-up I've had. I'm picturing 8-10 16'' monster Piraya living in my living room in a massive, well planted tank.

that would be very impressive. To speed up the cycling you can add some seachem stability and get the pirayas before they are all sold out.
here are some of the review about it, good stuff.
http://www.aquahobby.com/products/e_stability.php

You can get them from petsmart
http://www.petsmart.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2753903

this way you don't have to wait for a month to add the pirayas, just put water, seachem stability and bang you are ready to go

can't wait to see some pictures of your new setup, and with some pirayas in it.

 

[Ohio Entusiast]

that would be very impressive. To speed up the cycling you can add some seachem stability and get the pirayas before they are all sold out.
here are some of the review about it, good stuff.
http://www.aquahobby.com/products/e_stability.php

You can get them from petsmart
http://www.petsmart.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2753903

this way you don't have to wait for a month to add the pirayas, just put water, seachem stability and bang you are ready to go

can't wait to see some pictures of your new setup, and with some pirayas in it.

Have you used this? Call me old fashioned but I'm still hooked on throwing some Guppies in a tank and monitoring the perimeters.

I'm about tapped out after setting this tank up so it'll be a good month or more until I have the cash to put down on the Pirayas.

 

[jp80911]

Have you used this? Call me old fashioned but I'm still hooked on throwing some Guppies in a tank and monitoring the perimeters.

I'm about tapped out after setting this tank up so it'll be a good month or more until I have the cash to put down on the Pirayas.

I have used something similar and worked great on two of my old tanks. one had 7 rbps and one had two oscars, 1 jar, two iridescent sharks, couple different cichlids and a large pleco.
setup the tanks, filled them up, fresh tapwater (well water) and those bacterial supplement. once water temp. is good I just add fish and never had issue.
what they do is to add a good amount of benefical bacteria into your tank so you don't have to spend weeks to wait for the colony to develop. you can probably have more bacteria added by this way then waiting for guppies to cycle the tank because guppies do not produce enough bio load to support a large colony of bacterias which required by piranahs to help with their massive bio loads.
I think an other member (zennzzo) here are using this, you can pm him and ask him about it.
you never know if those pirayas will still be available or price will remain the same (hopefully they will). but if you don't have money to spend now and will have to wait a month then that's a different story.