Manny the Pacu

[Reincarnated]

Well my beast doesnt have the colors like Red Devil's pacu do but i still love him, hes a bruiser for sure! Grown like a weed and in the 3' deep pool i feel like hes almost too big for it! So im building a 4 feet deep 1k gallon pond for him and my others.



thought it was a better pic. Tonight when i go down to feed again ill get a pic of him when he comes to me. He just circles in front of me while i throw him pellets, algae wafers, he ate 35 last night at the nightly feeding and he almost ate a bullfrog this morning, he stole it from my peacock bass but an oscar stole it from him lol.

 

[strollo22]

Looks great. Do you have that pool inside? I know it get's real cold upstate

 

[Reincarnated]

yeah its in my basement

 

[dragonfish]

Is that an Intex pool?

 

[bonesb66]

How big is he now then?
Rays look huge

 

[Red Devil]

looks great.. and so does everyone else.. yes pacu love their algae wafers and also try little pieces of carrots and small pieces of green grapes.... munch munch........ how big is he..

 

[Reincarnated]

Im estimating him somewhere between 18"- 20" long my big ray is 19"-20" and he sometimes looks to be just as big, sometimes bigger. And i would guess his height somewhere around 12" because in 3' of water he looks like he's more than 1/3rd the depth. Im building a "pond" out of wood and using a pond liner it will be 8'x4'x4' which is still 1000 gallons but it adds a foot of depth for him. I'll measure him when i move them all to the new setup. Yes it is an intex pool lol. I got it a year ago for my oscars because i love oscars and slowly i started getting other stuff to add to it. Probably be a few weeks before im done buying supplies for the new setup so pool til then. I have a decent pond filtration unit on the pool rated to clean 2700 gallons and i do 100, 200 and sometimes 300 gallons a day of water changes depending on what my mood is that day lol. I have found it to be very efficient and when their new pond is built i will have some crazy filtration, i want to see just how big manny will get. I would get another big pacu if i could find one but i havent seen any around here lately and its nothing i want to order and pay shipping on.

I will have to try some grapes at tonights feeding, maybe carrots too but im not sure we have any, we just got a bunch of fresh green grapes yesterday. He loves his massivore too and i got some fresh shrimp today too for tonights feeding so they will eat like kings tonight... Sometimes i wish i ate that good...

 

[Red Devil]

thats awesome.. make sure just a little piece.. if he does not like them you will need to remove them since nobody else will want them.. he is the vegetarian .. lol...let me know.

 

[Reincarnated]

Well no carrots but he did eat a grape, i sliced 2 grapes into 3rds, he ate 3 pieces an oscar ate one(then spit it back out) my baby leo ate one and the other piece was chewed up but spit out by manny lol. He ate a bunch of massivore this morning though. I got a few more pics while i was feeding.

this first pic is a decent pic of his side. he was swimming by watching me hand feed my baby leo nightcrawlers. the female motoro he is above is 18"-19" so that should give you an idea of how big he is.





almost forgot this pic, i like it for size comparison too, the red devil is 5" or so i think and the dovii at the top is 12"+/- a half inch

 

[Chicxulub]

Good night, that is a monstrous fish! Quite impressive!