just wondering pacu & oscar & pirhana
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triniyute;4711259; said:
if your pacu and oscars are big and you dont have a large school of ps. like 4 or 5 then it would probably work buy your pacu and oscars will have nipped fins.
Piranhas feed on Oscars in the wild.
You cannot really keep anything with Piranhas, unless you are very experienced with this type of carnivore.
But Pacus you can keep with Oscars, as they are mainly herbivores from my understanding.
I did however see a Pacu in the LFS take a BIG chunk out of the back of a H. Nicaraguensis, so be careful with them.
You cannot really keep anything with Piranhas, unless you are very experienced with this type of carnivore.
But Pacus you can keep with Oscars, as they are mainly herbivores from my understanding.
I did however see a Pacu in the LFS take a BIG chunk out of the back of a H. Nicaraguensis, so be careful with them.
Well, there's solitary piranhas and schooling piranhas. You can't really keep anything with solitary piranhas, and you can't keep an Oscar with a school of piranhas. You might be able to if there's only one piranha, but schooling piranhas need to be in groups to feel secure. Otherwise you'll just have a nervous wreck piranha that hides all the time and takes occasional chunks out of your other fish.
You can keep juvenile Red Belly Pacus with juvenile Red Belly Piranhas. In the wild the Pacus will shoal with the piranhas for safety. They imitate their behavior and stuff. However, eventually the Pacu will outgrow them, and since it can't get away, might become a snack once they realize its not one of them.
And you can keep Pacu with Oscars... but not in a 400 gallon tank (for life).
They tend to get nippy if they're not fed enough.
You can keep juvenile Red Belly Pacus with juvenile Red Belly Piranhas. In the wild the Pacus will shoal with the piranhas for safety. They imitate their behavior and stuff. However, eventually the Pacu will outgrow them, and since it can't get away, might become a snack once they realize its not one of them.
And you can keep Pacu with Oscars... but not in a 400 gallon tank (for life).
HrHagel;4711271; said:
They tend to get nippy if they're not fed enough.
Yep young RB pacus shoal with RB piranhas. Intriguing behaviour.
My experience is that pacus do not live that well with oscars though.
Apart from the feeding, pacus are very unyielding, and together with
territorial oscars they'll show how firm their bite is.
I had to separate them.
Piranhas are allready ferocious towards each other, and are therefor not to be
mixed with other species in a tank.
A group of oscars together is, because of their different characters, very nice to see.
My experience is that pacus do not live that well with oscars though.
Apart from the feeding, pacus are very unyielding, and together with
territorial oscars they'll show how firm their bite is.
I had to separate them.
Piranhas are allready ferocious towards each other, and are therefor not to be
mixed with other species in a tank.
A group of oscars together is, because of their different characters, very nice to see.
Pacu and oscars can be done, done it multiple times. Lots of tank space, lots of food, lots of h2o changes.
My pacu display at work (currently being upgraded) gets a 75% h2o change daily.
As for the piranhas...the first time I bought pacus (I was probably 12.) thats how I learned that they werent. One took a chunk out of the other one. At that point I realized I had piranha, and dedicated a tank to them.
Not that it couldnt be done, but long term you are just asking for problems.
My pacu display at work (currently being upgraded) gets a 75% h2o change daily.
As for the piranhas...the first time I bought pacus (I was probably 12.) thats how I learned that they werent. One took a chunk out of the other one. At that point I realized I had piranha, and dedicated a tank to them.
Not that it couldnt be done, but long term you are just asking for problems.
Pacu's are not an easy going fish, some are calm some are mean, and some are phsyco! My friends pacu chewed a Jaguar cichlid to pieces.