My first Piranha

[Mikay]

I've heard that on and off over the years. This was back in the early 1980's and I guess that was the thing to do at the time, or so I was told. Lloyd ate mostly feeder goldfish with the occasional 'treat'. Lake fish meat was stuff I planned on eating myself and was cooked first. Same with hamburger, never raw.

I dont want to start a big hoo ha, but I guess it would seem to me that food that's fit for human consumption might have to pass a bit more stringent controls on what might be in it than whatever they grind up and put in those flakes. I could be wrong, and I'm sure plenty of people will volunteer to point how where and how I am wrong.

Lloyd lived to the ripe old age of 8 or 9 before I gave him and his tank to a friend, who I lost contact with, when I moved a long distance.

 

[Diogenes]

I've heard that on and off over the years. This was back in the early 1980's and I guess that was the thing to do at the time, or so I was told. Lloyd ate mostly feeder goldfish with the occasional 'treat'. Lake fish meat was stuff I planned on eating myself and was cooked first. Same with hamburger, never raw.

I dont want to start a big hoo ha, but I guess it would seem to me that food that's fit for human consumption might have to pass a bit more stringent controls on what might be in it than whatever they grind up and put in those flakes. I could be wrong, and I'm sure plenty of people will volunteer to point how where and how I am wrong.

Lloyd lived to the ripe old age of 8 or 9 before I gave him and his tank to a friend, who I lost contact with, when I moved a long distance.

its not that fish food meets some sort of standard for sanitation that the diet you fed loyd does not, rather it's that the nutritional requirements for piranha are very different from those of a bipedal primate.

 

[beccabee]

I just don't think that this is gonna work not only do p's have different water requirements they are a predatory fish and it may be just fin nipping now but eventually that will turn into chunks and even though he might not kill them it opens the door to a bacterial infection in the wound. In the long run this won't work.it may have sounded neat but over all its not what's best for any of those fish in that tank.

 

[ballinouttacntrol]

ah, the overkill parade continues. Anyone else want to tell him that it won't work? Just for good measures?

 

[Diogenes]

ah, the overkill parade continues. Anyone else want to tell him that it won't work? Just for good measures?

it won't work

just kiddin. It probably will work...for a while, but then again aren't all things transient?

 

[ballinouttacntrol]

it won't work

just kiddin. It probably will work...for a while, but then again aren't all things transient?

You guys are starting to make me feel left out. Should I tell him too?

 

[socaljack]

looks like some dead africans lol

 

[HrHagel]

god, i love this thread

Not once a person has said "nice fish", when the only thing i asked for was comments on my fish, haha

Oh well.. i guess that's MFK xD

hey i guess i might aswell join the crusade and say to myself "HEY DUDE THAT IS NOT GOING TO WORK"

Yeah it might not work, and it might work.. nobody ****ing knows alright?
Yes, the odds are against me, but if this is what i want to do, having researched it for a long time, considered it greatly, i don't see why it's such a big issue for some of you.

It's not like you are saying it for the benefit of the fish, cause obviosuly the fish will be removed if anything does happen, like i have already stated before in this thread, so what is it really??? i'm confused??

Anyway, thanks for the attention nonetheless

 

[Diogenes]

god, i love this thread

Not once a person has said "nice fish", when the only thing i asked for was comments on my fish, haha

Oh well.. i guess that's MFK xD

hey i guess i might aswell join the crusade and say to myself "HEY DUDE THAT IS NOT GOING TO WORK"

Yeah it might not work, and it might work.. nobody ****ing knows alright?
Yes, the odds are against me, but if this is what i want to do, having researched it for a long time, considered it greatly, i don't see why it's such a big issue for some of you.

It's not like you are saying it for the benefit of the fish, cause obviosuly the fish will be removed if anything does happen, like i have already stated before in this thread, so what is it really??? i'm confused??

Anyway, thanks for the attention nonetheless

nice fish

 

[HrHagel]

nice fish

Thanks man!!