crazy p diet question

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disease and parasites is another possibility with feeders.

No I'm not a Vols fan, i was when I live in Florida but when I moved up here it kinda lost it's fun.

I want my P's to be healthy, thus my concern that they have had such minimal growth.

It's not just the fact that his are bigger, my credibility goes out the window when it appears I'm wrong. He didn't believe me before about the feeders and he darn sure doesn't want to listen to me now.

Is there another species that resembles the rbp but has a slower growth rate? These thing are growing at the rate of my rhom ffs.lol
 
how long you had the rbps and what size tank you have them in? what's your feeding schedule like? how frequent and how fast? filtration and water change routine?
it could be that yours are growing at normal rate and his are growing at abnormal rate.
I've had shoal of caribes from the same batch so they start at the same size, fed on the same food and since they are all in the same tank they are having the same water condition. after 6 months some were around 5" and some where pushing 8".
 
yeah Knox I don't know man.

One thing I will say is that your friend might come around to your way of thinking when he comes home one day and there are round worms hanging out of his fishes anus. They're contagious to humans and it's pretty hard to siphon water into a bucket when you see intestinal parasites floating around in the tank water. That's why I stopped feeding feeders to my piranha. It's bound to happen sooner or later.
 
I was refering to the discus breeders in Germany n Asia not some crappy fish farms, the die hard discus breeders that have truely stunning n exspensive fish.also like Jp said some fish just grow faster than others, I'm always spitting up rbp babies that grow faster than others, n its these bigger ones that eat the smaller sibling n grow faster.and just for the record my fish probably eat more live fish than anyones, but they very rarely eat goldfish.all my fish eat live fish from my piranhas to P-bass to my girls tetras n mollies, every fish I have eats piranha, weather its fry with yoke sacks still attached to 2"babies.n having said that my fish also eat a wider varity of foods than most on here also.I feed nightcrawlers, troutworms, rbp, beefheart,krill, shrimp,silversides,pellets,tilapia fillets,leeches,crawdads,n yes they even get goldfish from time to time.even my baby piranhas get fed all this and more(except crawdads, n leeches)so don't try n make it sound like I feed only goldfish n nothing else.I've always said more varity the better n the healthier your fish will be. I've had piranha for more years than I care to recall I haven't had piranha once or twice n sold them off because I got bored of them.
 
ok here's on of mine.He's 6" and yes I know the pics are camera phone crap. lol. Maybe someone can tell me if they're stunted or something. idk.

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no idea if it looks stunt or not but at that size shouldn't it be more colorful?
there should be more red on the belly, maybe its stress from being net...idk
 
ever since I got them that have have little to no color compared to other rbp i have had. I'm really thinking that the guy i got all 4 from really screwed them up.
 
Ill say it I think they're stunted or poor genes.if your fish were 4" n your friends fish were 2.5" n his done passed yours up n are now 8", live feed or not somethings up here.these fish could be like what my Lfs had for 6 months they went from nickel sized to quarter sized I 6months! What size tank did they come out of when you bought them? Personally I wouldn't be bothered by lil smaller rbp(room for couple more)but if you really wanting bigger rbp you might wanna start over with good quality babies or juvies? Or just enjoy them for what they are.a few inches won't make em any less of a piranha.
 
They came from a 125g into a 90g. I'm just gonna keep these guys and hope that the 9 i got the other day turn out bigger
 
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