New piranha aquarium help

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Brazzen1

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Hi all, this is my first time posting in the piranha forum, mainly a cichlid guy. The reason is I need some advice. This spring I’m helping my cousin set up his first aquarium, he had one when he was a kid, and he wants piranhas. The thing is his local stores are more expensive than ordering online and he asked me for help, since I’ve had fish constantly since I was 8 years old. I had a couple of piranhas (rbp) in a 20 gallon when I was a kid, didn’t go well and eventually we moved to a state that didn’t allow them. I could have still gotten them, just would have spent an arm and a leg. The tanks going to be either 125 or 150. He’s asking me to aquascape it and choose between rbp or caribas. I know caribas are more aggressive and that they look a lot alike, that’s pretty much it. It’s only a few dollars difference so why choose one over the other? I tried looking on YouTube but most of the videos I found were just them feeding or people giving loooong speeches. Thanks.
 
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Brazzen1 said:
Hi all, this is my first time posting in the piranha forum, mainly a cichlid guy. The reason is I need some advice. This spring I’m helping my cousin set up his first aquarium, he had one when he was a kid, and he wants piranhas. The thing is his local stores are more expensive than ordering online and he asked me for help, since I’ve had fish constantly since I was 8 years old. I had a couple of piranhas (rbp) in a 20 gallon when I was a kid, didn’t go well and eventually we moved to a state that didn’t allow them. I could have still gotten them, just would have spent an arm and a leg. The tanks going to be either 125 or 150. He’s asking me to aquascape it and choose between rbp or caribas. I know caribas are more aggressive and that they look a lot alike, that’s pretty much it. It’s only a few dollars difference so why choose one over the other? I tried looking on YouTube but most of the videos I found were just them feeding or people giving loooong speeches. Thanks.
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I personally kept rbp many years ago. If it was me I would go with the 150 gallon and go with the less aggressive rbp. I would get a group of 6-7 babies but beware they are very cannibalistic at that size so may lose 1 or two. Aquascape with gravel and driftwood the lighting doesn’t need to be bright they prefer dim. My choice for filtration would either be 2 110 aquaclear filters or a sump. As for food know need for live feeding unless cousin prefers that over non living foods. My choice for food would be strips of Tilapia, and good brand of pellet. Feed the 1-2 inch flake food and small strips of fish. Don't feed mammal or poultry.
 
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ive kept 8 species.. nothing really special about them. Caribas, rbps, geryi, rhom.. they all the same.. boring if u dont feed live. Check my fb page predatoria aquatica
 
caribas are “more aggressive” is false.. any hungry piranha is aggressive towards prey, caribas are more into cannibalism
 
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I told him to get them going, since he doesn’t want to feed live, is to put cut fish or shrimp in front of his power head. That’s how I got some clown knives to feed at my shop.
 
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I told him to get them going, since he doesn’t want to feed live, is to put cut fish or shrimp in front of his power head. That’s how I got some clown knives to feed at my shop.
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Even Redbelly eat each other when young. They are easy to train to eat frozen since they primarily eat dead in the wild anyway
 
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