Damn, RBP's are meant to be skittish wimps...

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I felt sorry for a lonesome RBP in a tiny tank today, so I bought it. Pushing 4 inches.

I kept 3 RBP's years ago and had them eventually with a spotted gar and a shovelnose. The worst that ever happened was the gar killed a pirhana.

They were not aggressive at all. They would sometimes leave a feeder goldfish untouched for over a week.

Yet this one, my god.

I put him in on his own and he started attacking all my fish, who are all bigger than him. Tried to bite my lovely bichir several times, went for my hujeta, tried to bite the oscar.

I quickly fed him some beefheart which he gobbled up, then he started attacking the fish again. He attacked everything but the wolf.

Then I noticed he bit a chunk out of the bichir's tail, just the fin bit, so I thought you little bastard I'm gonna eat you.

Then I just decided to quarantine it until I set up a tank tomorrow.

I may as well keep it, not often you see a lonesome Pirhana as aggressive as this.

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You got a good one, the ones I kept as singles were all fat and lazy.
 
ive got a 5" by himself, hes such a pussy he hides if im anywhere around and was getting bullied by 2" texans until i took them out. he only eats in the dark, and will only accept feeders, and it takes him days just to go after one!
 
That is one aggressive piranha. The ones at the public aquariums hide from me!
 
The last one that I kept alone reached 14" and stayed at that size for around a year then died during a power outage, It was not atall agressive and not at all skittish. It would come up to the surface at the front of the tank when I lifted the lid and would tug feeders from out of my fingers. It would also let me scratch its back after a heavy meal. It was named KIPPER and was a very lazy, fat fish.
 
Looks like I got a weird one.

In fact, in the store it looked just like a piraya. It had MUCH more colouration than that pic, he lost some by the time I got him home. And the phone cam colours are off too.

In the store most of his bottom half was a distinct orangey colour.

Maybe it's just a standard RPB but it's a far cry from the 3 I used to have. They would get intimidated by goldfish for days, this one 2 mins after I plopped him in was attacking everything in the tank and devouring big chunks of beefheart.
 
That's a big RBP, guppy!
 
NeonTetraFan said:
That's a big RBP, guppy!
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Yep, biggest I have ever seen out side of Stienhardt Aquarium,S.F., Ca. where they had a couple as big. I got it as a 6"er. Kept it from 83-87. Power went out one weekend I was away and It got very cold and died. I ate it, rather bland, quite fatty, with a lot of small bones.
 
I wouldn't imagine it tasting good.
 
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