HOW DO U BREED RED BELLY PIRANHAS

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Yea ull find more failure then I will find success but they don't go into detail on what happened when they introduced the fish and not just any fish will be OK with piranhas true but if u start off with both species the same size then ull have better luck
That's all that has been said by Oddball, Thekid an myself. It's not a common occurrence for P Cohab's to work. As for not going into detail, there are actually I believe threads on here that went into detail about such failures. If I remember correctly one such failure involved an Oscar with a group of same sized and smaller P's. The cohab worked for awhile but being fin and scale eaters the P's nipped the O and the O reacted just a little worse then his fellow P's did to similar instances and they turned on him. The result was a O who was half the fish he used to be. The owner separated the O and asked for help saving the O. If I remember correctly the O did survive which was nice turn of events. I'll see if I can find the thread for you.
 
By the way again I'm not saying it's impossible. As a matter of fact there have been those who've tried O's with P's on here and have threads dedicated to them. Just pointing out again that such a cohab is risky.
Yea but any co hab is risky even jacks and oscars I have a tank with 4 jacks n it and they try to kill each other there has to b a divider to keep them apart and my Oscar only accepts the long jacks
 
I have to stand by what I've said. In my experience, any cohabitation with Ps will eventually result in a tank of just Ps. I know there are keepers who have tried comms of Ps with other species and have had a modicum of success. And, you're keeping them in a comm for 3 years is definitely a feat. However, sooner or later, either by a missed feeding, by territorial male behavior, by simply getting spooked, or by accidental nipping during feeding the tank will eventually be a P tank. The only long-term success I seen has been through coming Ps with nano-species that would be considered as too small for a shoal of adult Ps.

Keeping Ps with another species for 3 years is something I've not heard of before in the 50+ years I've been in this hobby. I hope you can keep a running report on the conditions used in this arrangement and the maintenance and attention needed to keep this arrangement going. And, I hope that should this co-habitation end unpleasantly that you'll inform the membership of that event. This situation is not the norm for piranha-keepers and I don't wish readers to get the wrong idea that such an arrangement is recommended to attempt without proper pre-planning and meticulous attention to maintenance.
 
BTW Folks, this thread is supposed to be about breeding piranhas. Let's get this thread back on the rails, please.
Thanks oddball I will and any tips on keeping my odd one out of the 2 breeding pairs its to late to add new piranhas n so how can I keep him busy and what's the best lighting I can usr
 
I have to stand by what I've said. In my experience, any cohabitation with Ps will eventually result in a tank of just Ps. I know there are keepers who have tried comms of Ps with other species and have had a modicum of success. And, you're keeping them in a comm for 3 years is definitely a feat. However, sooner or later, either by a missed feeding, by territorial male behavior, by simply getting spooked, or by accidental nipping during feeding the tank will eventually be a P tank. The only long-term success I seen has been through coming Ps with nano-species that would be considered as too small for a shoal of adult Ps.

Keeping Ps with another species for 3 years is something I've not heard of before in the 50+ years I've been in this hobby. I hope you can keep a running report on the conditions used in this arrangement and the maintenance and attention needed to keep this arrangement going. And, I hope that should this co-habitation end unpleasantly that you'll inform the membership of that event. This situation is not the norm for piranha-keepers and I don't wish readers to get the wrong idea that such an arrangement is recommended to attempt without proper pre-planning and meticulous attention to maintenance.
To keep all the fish happy I gotta feed every day and at least 5 dozen feeder fish some times less just depends but I always have feeders n there and at times I go to the lake and catch catfish for them
 
I've seen a couple of piranha tanks with other species included, but always tiny things- neon tetras, mostly. Too small to interest the piranhas.
I've also seen a public aquarium exhibit with a 7' green anaconda, about 12 piranhas, and a couple hundred neon tetras. The p's were all terrified of the anaconda, of course, they all hid the second it moved. I suspect there used to be more than 12 of them. Still kinda cool.
 
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