Don't put hungry piranhas in with anything! DUH

[bahamaqt00]

Well this happened a couple moths ago and I just thought I'd share my BIGGEST mistake ever. To make a long story short we had 4 piranhas in a 55gal tank (they were only little ones, about 3") and we had to do some tank shifting around. We thought that putting them in the big 250 gal for less than 5 min would be fine, they would be shocked, scared of the big fish, and most fish wont eat until getting used to the tank. Well that definitely was not the case! We dropped all four of them in, turned around, turned back to look and we saw a big commotion and here is the result:

Let's just say it wasn't pretty and that was my lesson learned: I hate piranhas and you can't keep them with ANYTHING not ever for a minute.

 

[scottswald]

aww, thats horrible, i've just had the same thing happen yesterday.

 

[Greez]

It's like the people who poke a bear with a stick then are surprised it bites them.

Switching them from one tank to the other most likely scared them and then the cat got in the way.

 

[D-WALT]

did either of the cats make it im sure the one didnt but sorry for your loss or losses..

nvm i just noticed it was same cat!!

 

[nomad]

you should heave used a divider.

 

[bahamaqt00]

aww, thats horrible, i've just had the same thing happen yesterday.

Oh no! With piranhas? What did they get ahold of?

It's like the people who poke a bear with a stick then are surprised it bites them.

Switching them from one tank to the other most likely scared them and then the cat got in the way.

I didn't see it, I am guessing you're right, that is what happened.

did either of the cats make it im sure the one didnt but sorry for your loss or losses..

nvm i just noticed it was same cat!!

No he didn't make it He was my favorite cat too. He stayed alive for a good week and I put him in quarentine and was treating him with a medicated feed and some meds. Just when it looked like he was getting better he died. I was actually about to just euthanize anyways because I knew it was unfair for him to suffer.

you should heave used a divider.

I didn't have one but i'm sure they're easily made. What I should have done was used my brain before putting them in there

 

[scottswald]

i think it was a leopard catfish, about 4"

i have 3 2-2.5" baby red belly piranha.

the p's went totally off their food for a couple of days (i believe due to unusually high traffic around the tank) so they ate a lot of its fins and it's barbells.

a day later they have seemed to eat most of the surface of the cat... :-(

what bottom feeder could i put in that would be tougher? and wat size bearing in mind the size of my p's?

 

[scottswald]

oops, im hijacking youre thread... sorry

 

[bahamaqt00]

No no worries. I honestly wouldn't risk any cat/bottom feeder with piranhas other than maybe plecos. It's a little more work because you have to be the tanks clean up crew but I felt SOO horrible after this happened. I kept just a common pleco with the piranhas and they never bothered him. There was also a raphael cat in there but he was hiding all the time.

 

[scottswald]

No no worries. I honestly wouldn't risk any cat/bottom feeder with piranhas other than maybe plecos. It's a little more work because you have to be the tanks clean up crew but I felt SOO horrible after this happened. I kept just a common pleco with the piranhas and they never bothered him. There was also a raphael cat in there but he was hiding all the time.

yeah, the cat had lived with them for nearly a month before that.

im gonna try a pleco but am unsure what size pleco for the size of my p's, wud a large pleco try to eat small p's?