piranha and oscars
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exactly cichlids fight by interlocking lips and "wrestling" from there when they try this with a piranha they loose atleast one of their lipsballinouttacntrol;4129067; said:
Happend to one of my convicts and i still feel sick to this day about it (the lip has not and will not grow back at this point)
piranhas are wussies and rarely (i find) finish off the fish after this and leave it to suffer. It'll happen and you'll be stuck with the guilt.
My biggest male rbp (bout 9")will grab a big feeder by the face(mouth) while the other 5 tear the fish apart!not all piranhas are wussies!mostly just the ones that don't have the right conditions.or raised wrong.my rbp aren't scared or wussies!they will tear apart whatever I throw at em!
dont know why everybody say they wussys they are not but anyway. i wuld not put a oscar in with any pirhana its only a mater of time till one of themm snapes and one of em gona lose the fight. to me it seems iresponcible. it is dangerus for the fish and will cause stress.
I kept an oscar with 4 red bellies for two years. Everything was fine until one day the oscar was gone. My guess was he became sick, so slight that I didn't notice and they took advantage. I wouldn't try it again.
PS There was never even a hint of aggression between them, lots of hiding places, good water and food made for what i thought to be the perfect lifestyle. And for two years and a few months it was.
PS There was never even a hint of aggression between them, lots of hiding places, good water and food made for what i thought to be the perfect lifestyle. And for two years and a few months it was.
i don't think he means wussies in the sense that you guys are thinking....his observation is probably correct that most are territorial and injure their prey, eat what they need and rarely finish off the carcase in the home aquairum because most of us don't allow them to get hungry enough to the point they need to.
ballinouttacntrol;4129318; said:
Correct i have no doubt it my mind that the convict got a little to territorial around the piranhas and they decided a fight over territory was nessicary and left the convict maimed as they did because they did not queue in a feeding response but rather a territorial one.
My piranhas definately do not see the convicts in their aquarium as "feeders" but rather a renewable resource that they can have a nibble from here and there, when they get the munchies. As is obvious from the damage i saw on my largest convict's tail and fins (until recently as now the whole tail has been removed and will not grow back).
I meant they are wussies in how they assert their dominance (or lack of dominance) on other fish look at an oscar for example he will show every other fish in his tank he's the boss (or try to) and try his best to dominate the food supply as well whereas piranhas barely realise that the other fish that are there are anything more than occasional snacks or for an occasional bite to eat (pun intended).
Piranhas definately prefer to take on weakened prey but they often don't do so immediately they prefer to wait until it suits them where as an oscar (just for example) would make sure that if something gets into a fight with it there leaving in a body bag (metaphorically speaking), a piranha wouldn't care how the other fish ends up.