pirahna are over rated.
- Thread starter joc38
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yes as far as aggresiveness cichlids are overated. i have a cichlid tank and i have 3 rainbow sharks 2 dinosaur eels a small bowfin and a minnow in there with them.. but i love em cause i have breeders.. now lets get back to the pirahnas.. ps are very skittish and lame in small numbers but if u have the tank to keep 15 to 20 of them they are awesome.. throw in anything.. bullfrog bluegills sunfish mouse maybe a lame oscar [thats just my opinion i hate oscars] and the ps will rip em up in seconds... they do a ton better when there in a group of large numbers.. ive tried it twice.. the first time with 4 ps and i thought they were lame id throw in a blue gill and wait a hour and they ate half and i would have to fish out the waste and flush it so it was a pain.. now i have a bunch and its much cooler.. no waste to clean up and immediate action.
yeah numbers really is the key. and as everyone knows personality plays a big role in "your" fish. my fish eat anything they are not used to seeing in thier water. they also live happy with all my other BREEDING fish in thier tank. piranha are like pit bull, depends how they are raised.
I dont know about you guys but I just love watching my rbps school around the tank together. Its also still amazes me watch them hunt down feeder fish when I put them in the tank. It seems like they swim a few laps around the tank first to get a game plan down and then wham the feeders are gone. I also love watching their silver speckles flicker under the light when they swim in the powerhead. They spend most of their day doing this, looking like an amusement park ride for them. They swim up the current from one end of the tank to the other and then when they get right up by the powerhead the float back to beginning in the current and hit it again. I have kept all kinds of fish, cichlids, saltwater and I have the say that piranhas are definitely my favorite so far. Just my opinion.
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I enjoyed my rb's when they were juveniles and in large quantities. Now, Im really enjoying my new ATF's!!!!
Stop watching old adventure films and look at the fish as is , without the inflated reputation, they are great fish.
