pirahna are over rated.

[guppy]

I dont know about anyone elses rbps but mine shred whatever hits the water and leave it in pieces or eat it completely,I was feeding them convicts for a while but my supply ran out so Im back to large feeders,beef heart,pellets,green beans,flake,...ect.krill.my previous trio took out various S/A cichlids that people gave me that swore up and down they would kill my fish.Like always they wound up trying to breathe with no organs (kinda hard when youre hollowed out) anyways thats my experience with these guys.Right now I have 4 four to five inchers and 7 2-3inchers.

How did you raise them?/condition them to feed? I had a tank full of 9" red bellies that ate anything that hit the water and bit all available hands. All the other ps I've kept were slow feeders but pretty fish. It took conditioning but the one tank was like caribes in a sun dried oxbow. How did you do it?

 

[smoke187]

I had a small group (6) Red bellies but I have to admit they did piss me off half the time, a bit too skitish for my liking but they were pretty aggressive. Any other fish that was tossed into the tank got ripped to streads within seconds. I would have to say that red bellies are the little "*****es" of the Piranha family.. I gave them up and just got an African Tiger yesterday. Lolvely lil fish, always swimming around and spent half of yesterday charging and trying to take chomps of glass out in the bid of tearing its reflection to pieces hehe.

 

[CentralMayhem]

not that they are mean. but when they are HUNGRY they could theoretically disembowel any of your cichlids. a small group of p's would literally destroy your cichlids if they were HUNGRY. otherwise they are just fin nippers that try to avoid the cichlids. just like any other mid water schooling tetras they dont stake out a territory much as a cichlid does. when all is said and done the p's could destroy cichlids. And that just came from someone who keeps central americans and loves em. im not a huge piranah fan but come on guys. gotta give credit where credit is due. they are flesh eating machines.

 

[joc38]

I got rid of my p's for an ATF and he is awesome,,when yo uopen the lid to put the food in he's right there waiting on it and when it hits the water,,don't blink because it is over fast.I tthink p's are good looking fish but I am happier with my ATF.I guess it's a personal prefference thing and I am in no way trying to make anyone mad here..I am just stating an opinion.If I was going to have another pirahna it would be an elongatus or and irritan.

 

[Daddyo72]

The beauty of piranhas isn't in the kill or daily activity. It's the shoal. How they live, fight, eat, socialize, pecking orders, fights to be the top dog ETC.... If you want non stop action watch UFC on PPV.

 

[Hazy]

To bad,piranhas is not legal in my country.

 

[MidasMan]

Angie has some nice YELLOW CHICHLIDS. BOP

 

[predsg]

I HAD PIRAHNAS YEARS AGO AND NOTHING WAS EVER LEFT ALIVE OR LEFT BEHIND. THEY WERE PRETTY BIG AND NOT SKITISH AT ALL!!! THEY WENT AFTER ANY AND EVERYTHING!!! HANDS INCLUDED LMAO

 

[piranha45]

THEY WENT AFTER ANY AND EVERYTHING!!! HANDS INCLUDED LMAO

that is interesting.... seriously, how many times did you get bit cleaning the tank? how much flesh you lose?

 

[R1_Ridah]

I think most everyone that's into predatory fish start of w/P's. I think it's just the excitement and bragging rights of having one. It's a fish not everyone in the block will have. But eventually people will grow out of.

I think they are overated.