mini p's?
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Nope. The smallest commonly available P would be the S. Sanchezi and a young one could be kept in a 20L for at elast a few years.
I think there is a kind called the "wimple piranha" that only gets about 6".
I saw that while reading a book on characins. i'd google it to see if it's really an option.
if so, I guess you could do one in a 20G, but not a 10G. don't know how you're gonna find one, though.
I saw that while reading a book on characins. i'd google it to see if it's really an option.
if so, I guess you could do one in a 20G, but not a 10G. don't know how you're gonna find one, though.
A 10 gallon is too small for any piranha species or any piranha look-a-like species (that includes silver dollars and wimples).
If you can stretch to a 20 gallon, you open your options to this part of the hobby.
You could home a wimple piranha, 3 silver dollars, or even a sole red belly piranha.
Now the thing with red belly piranhas is that they do get big, however they are not particularly active (especially on their own).
I have seen various set ups where people keep a red belly in an uncluttered and well filtered 20 gallon.
However I recon your best bet is a wimple piranha or 3 silver dollars.
Keep a wimple piranha if you want to tell your un-knowledgeable friends you have a pet piranha. Or keep 3 silver dollars if you just want a small shoal of look-a-likes that will patrol the tank and you can keep tank mates with.
If you can stretch to a 20 gallon, you open your options to this part of the hobby.
You could home a wimple piranha, 3 silver dollars, or even a sole red belly piranha.
Now the thing with red belly piranhas is that they do get big, however they are not particularly active (especially on their own).
I have seen various set ups where people keep a red belly in an uncluttered and well filtered 20 gallon.
However I recon your best bet is a wimple piranha or 3 silver dollars.
Keep a wimple piranha if you want to tell your un-knowledgeable friends you have a pet piranha. Or keep 3 silver dollars if you just want a small shoal of look-a-likes that will patrol the tank and you can keep tank mates with.
a 10gallon is too small for any fish other than tetras or guppys really, think bigger thats the key !
It is as good as the real thing though.
As mean as hell towards anything, and it is pot luck as to whether you can shoal them together or not.
They eat more scales and fins than flesh though.
Nonetheless an attack on a feeder is sometimes more veracious...
As mean as hell towards anything, and it is pot luck as to whether you can shoal them together or not.
They eat more scales and fins than flesh though.
Nonetheless an attack on a feeder is sometimes more veracious...
aint that much differnce in $ between a 10 and 20 gallon, spend the extra$ so u can grow a nice healthy, happy piranha!!
ummmmm.... SDs get 8" long each, and RBPs get to be almost a foot long don't they?Joshy;613891; said:
IU would say no, even the wimple, a "false piranha can get more than 6", well maybe on of those but it would be pushing it.