hi could I get some advice, I had 2 red belly piranhas but down to one now. I noticed when they were together they would chase each other and bite each other at times, it's like even though they shoalso together it's like they don't trust each other. I don't think I want to add any more piranhas incase they don't get on. but is it ok to keep a piranha on its own? I might add few more fake plants as he might be a little scared now. thanks.
piranha advice
- Thread starter darts180
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For future, if you want to keep these RBP together you would get 4 or 5 to spread and minimal the aggression between them (the weaker one will get kill eventually in most cases), If your last RBP still small then you can buy few more same size and put them together, RBP more fun as a group instead solo it.
thank you. I noticed at google if you type piranhas with tank mates, people have different types of community fish with their piranhas, I wonder how they get successful here. my experience with piranhas sees that they are more scavenger rather than just attack anything in tank. they are not aggressive but more shy and skittish most of the time. if they are hungry they might get a bit chasey. there's this unpredictable feeling though it's like they are planning something lol I still think alot of what I see from the search is very lucky. one guy had silver dollars swimming with red belly piranhas and he was saying they are family in the wild.
A lot of that is a different species of piranha or short term luck. But I've seen people have success with large schools of neon tetras. It looks nice too.
will a single piranha be less aggressive or chasey? it seems they do that hunting behaviour when in large shoal, it's like they feel more comfortable that way. I'm worried it's going be harder to feed my piranha now it's on its own, he might shy away more and not swim around tank much.
RBP do hunt and best looking in a shoal of them, other species too aggressive to keep them together in captive like Serrasalmus species, those still super mean and they will kill anything in same tank, it's just matter of time.
