Pacu I rescued from Petco

[Behemoth]

Switch it to a veggie diet, you'll have better luck. With age, they tend to develop problems with a meat based diet.

And like was said, you'll want something HUGE to house that guy within about a year.

Will do. I tried offering some baby carrots last night. I also bought peas, zuchs, fresh green beans, lettuce, and some other veggies.

I tried offering the carrots last night but he wasn't interested. The dude is fat. They must have just fed him before dropping him.

 

[Zoodiver]

Zucchini, peas and carrots are a great start fo them. They'll take nuts as well. If you keep the diet natural, they don't get so over weight like you see in so many tanks. They should be an active fish. So if you start to see it just kinda hanging out, something isn't quite right. Mine swim almost non-stop all over the place. The only time I see them slow down is at night.

 

[Behemoth]

He seems pretty active. How do you offer the different foods? I dropped some small pieces of carrot last night and he paid them no mind. I dropped in some small lima beans...thought I grabbed peas...but it was limas. And he has paid them no mind either.

 

[wataugachicken]

not to be rude, but when people recuse fish like this from petstore all it does is make them think there is a demand for the fish and they will order even more. I also do not consider buying a fish from a LFS on most circumstances as a recuse. if that is the case I recused all my fish from a LFS because they were all little and in a tank too small for them to live in forever. If you had gotten it from someones hope or shop and then brought it home from miscare then maybe. I have truly recused a pacu. It was in a 29 and 10 inches long... It was so far gone... I got it back to swimming around in a pond for a while, but after a year, he passed. Could not recover...he was too skittish even for a pacu...

I am glad that the fish went to a better home... and glad that you would take all that is needed to take care of the fish.

I agree that buying a fish from a store to "save it" isn't really a wise choice - pacu, oscars, common plecos. . . even those people who save bettas - for every one you buy one or two more will be ordered to take its place. however, i think in the OP's case someone else had brought the fish in to Petco to get rid of it and he took it home. That qualifies as a rescue IMO, because Petco itself wasn't involved originally in ordering the fish or having it available for sale - someone else brought it in, and Petco was simply the unwitting middleman.

 

[Bogwoodbruce]

I agree that buying a fish from a store to "save it" isn't really a wise choice - pacu, oscars, common plecos. . . even those people who save bettas - for every one you buy one or two more will be ordered to take its place. however, i think in the OP's case someone else had brought the fish in to Petco to get rid of it and he took it home. That qualifies as a rescue IMO, because Petco itself wasn't involved originally in ordering the fish or having it available for sale - someone else brought it in, and Petco was simply the unwitting middleman.

I have to agree.

 

[Behemoth]

When you sign the adoption papers...Petco does give you a nifty little book of coupons...but nothing in their paper work says "You now have giant fish with teeth."

He is very active. Seems healthy. Just not eating anything. I have offered carrots, lima beans, and now fresh green beans. He tried the lima beans but spit them out.

 

[Behemoth]

Hopefully smaller.

 

[Zoodiver]

Could be he's just not hungry. He doesn't really have much room to move, so he's not going to burn too many calories in a small tank. Cut feeds to three times a week and see how that goes.

 

[Behemoth]

Thanks.

He ate some peas last night late.

 

[fish tamer]

yea looks pretty good