!!!!!!!!!!!!Help ID this piranha please!!!! and pics of my piranhas

[parker64]

Im talking about the more streamlin yellow bellow one i have him circled in red in one of the pics, i was think he might be a super red or a caribe hybrid but he has that caribe face look to him he is slightly less shy and more agressive then the others tell me what you think he is also in the pic third down

 

[Diogenes]

Pygocentrus nattereri

 

[jp80911]

Pygocentrus nattereri

+1

 

[Otherone]

The P's look good - your tank looks really bright which is way I recommend lowering the lighting - it'll help bring out the reds

 

[parker64]

The P's look good - your tank looks really bright which is way I recommend lowering the lighting - it'll help bring out the reds

I did i took aluminum foil poked a couple holes in the foil and it helped alot but i think he might be a slight cross cause he looks much different from my other RBP'S thanks for yalls help

 

[jp80911]

does it have red eye or white eye?

 

[Diogenes]

I did i took aluminum foil poked a couple holes in the foil and it helped alot but i think he might be a slight cross cause he looks much different from my other RBP'S thanks for yalls help

hybrid piranhas would be an exceptionally rare thing. Maybe he's from a different collection point which means he would have different genetic stock.

 

[Zander_The_RBP]

The P's look good - your tank looks really bright which is way I recommend lowering the lighting - it'll help bring out the reds

i call BS


lowering the lighting won't bring out reds better ive found exactly the oposite when i added a second fixture to my tank, the p's began showing alot more red

you just have to make sure it's an appropriate spectrum of light designed to show the piranha's reds the best


on topic: that's probably just a normal RBP some can be more elongated than others within any species you will have some variation even within the same collection point

 

[Otherone]

i call BS


lowering the lighting won't bring out reds better ive found exactly the oposite when i added a second fixture to my tank, the p's began showing alot more red

you just have to make sure it's an appropriate spectrum of light designed to show the piranha's reds the best

Glad that works for ya, your tank maybe deeper than his @ 18" which would require a more intensity. Most certainly increasing the Kelvin will bring out a broader spectrunm of color - thanks for brining that up. Op says he used aluminum foil and it "helped alot". I do not believe aluminum foil is the answer - if anything it's gonna cook the bulb. IMO lowering the wattage will decrease some instensity reducing unnessasary stress which would hopefully bring out more natural colors, throw in a lower watt, higher kelvin bulb and those colors will be even more pronounced.

 

[Zander_The_RBP]

Glad that works for ya, your tank maybe deeper than his @ 18" which would require a more intensity. Most certainly increasing the Kelvin will bring out a broader spectrunm of color - thanks for brining that up. Op says he used aluminum foil and it "helped alot". I do not believe aluminum foil is the answer - if anything it's gonna cook the bulb. IMO lowering the wattage will decrease some instensity reducing unnessasary stress which would hopefully bring out more natural colors, throw in a lower watt, higher kelvin bulb and those colors will be even more pronounced.

lol i completely agree with you now it's not the light itself that dulls colours but the stress exscessive light causes either way piranhas eventualy get used to brighter lighting conditions and will show normal colouration and your right aluminum foil is going to cook / shatter those bulbs and then he is going to have a mercury poisoning problem on his hands


i added 2x hagen aqua glo bulbs (18000k) to my tank used in conjunction with 2x 6500K bulbs and i can't belive the reds im seeing now not just on the piranhas but the convicts as well one appeared to delop red/orange on its fins which it never had before presumably due to the light masking them before

look at harleyK's piraya tank very high lighting yet i would hardly call those colours dull

next im going to try 6500k with actinic lights and see how that goes

i think the key to showing red colors on any fish is to have enough red light to reflect off of the red pigment (red pigment reflects red light thats why it looks red) and have enough blue light to contrast with the red so you really notice it

you need next to no red light to see the proper colours but you can have a ton of blue light to make them stand out