pacu

[shadowavenger77]

a friend of mine has a red bellied pacu and he is planing on selling it because he did not know what he was getting into at the time he bought it. what he wants to know is at the different sizes, how much can he sell it for. i could not answer because i am not a piranha person. thanks for the help

 

[Diogenes]

pacus aren't piranhas... but you were close.

 

[bigcol]

What size is it? how healthy is it? and yeah they are not pirhanas but they are called fruit eating pirahnas as they eat all sorts of fruit and veg aswell as other fish and meat

 

[shadowavenger77]

lol i did not know where to post this cuz i never needed to post about them anyway it is only like 6" and it looks healthy to me. how much is it now (probally not much) and how much can he get if he grew it out

 

[pacu22]

A lot of times people get rid of them for free because nobody can properly house them. Good luck trying to sell.

 

[bigcol]

atm its not really worth alot as its really small. Here in the uk at that size they go for around £10, i sold 1 alot bigger for that price just to get rid. If he were to grow it out he would need a huge tank and alot of food as thye eat for fun and grow massive I mean massive too

 

[Deep Blue Sea]

My lfs has a 15" for $15 they are hardly worth a thing

 

[SnowballDevil]

Diogenes I thought pacus were piranas that didnt eat meat.

 

[Zander_The_RBP]

Diogenes I thought pacus were piranas that didnt eat meat.

Nope

taxonomically pacus are not piranhas anymore than silver dollars are.

Piranhas include and are limited to (if the piranha clade is to be monophyletic: that is including one ancestor and ALL it's given descendants) these genera: Pygocentrus, Serrasalmus, Catoprion, Pygopristis and, Pristobrycon. Everything else in the serrasalminae subfamily is either a pacu or silver dollar.


@ OP

he can sell it for $0.00. Pacus are worthless because they grow to such large sizes and very few people can actualy house one when full grown. Your friend will be lucky if he gets 10 dollars for it.

 

[bigcol]

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