piranha(redbelly) what can stand up to them ???

[Pirwhana]

I have to agree with nothing. With Ps it is not a matter of size because they bite and cut chunks out of others, not just swallow.

 

[goodcents]

Yeah how do fish eat and swim around with over half there body missing? I see it alot with the feeder fish and it blows my mind how some are just a head only and you can see them gasping with no body.

 

[gar b3ar]

pacus, electric catfish, wolf fish

 

[Puff]

i had decent luck with tigerbarbs when i had my rbps. they lasted for quite a while. they were an AMAZING cleaning crew though.

but nothing you put in there would last. everything would "disappear" at some point.lol

 

[Ruger345]

i have 4 redbellies and am moving them to a 55gal very soon and want to know what i can put in with them ?????suggestions

Water! LOL! Nothing will live a happy life with them. Good luck!

 

[Nabbig2]

I have to agree with nothing. With Ps it is not a matter of size because they bite and cut chunks out of others, not just swallow.

That's true.


I think it's basically the piranhas eat, or get eaten. I mean, they don't live with anything but their own kind in nature, it's best too keep it like that in captivity, too.

 

[vlindertje]

In the wild they share their rivers with a variety of fish, though, and apparantly for some neon tetras work and for some they won't last for 5 minutes. Could that be because when you add something they always consider your presence as feeding time? If you put in the tetras a few days before adding the rbp, would that help? It really looks cool, rbp and neon tetra.

 

[Nabbig2]

In the wild they share their rivers with a variety of fish, though, and apparantly for some neon tetras work and for some they won't last for 5 minutes. Could that be because when you add something they always consider your presence as feeding time? If you put in the tetras a few days before adding the rbp, would that help? It really looks cool, rbp and neon tetra.

Well, if they are well fed, maybe they won't bother with puny, agile little fish, like neons. But you are right, if they see you adding fish to the tank, the could consider it prey. It depends on what you feed them, and whether or not they associate you with more food.

 

[jsnm1234]

I have a 8" RBP (Mitch) in a 55 gal tank by himself & his tankmates (food) about 15-30 goldfish. Problem is, he has aquired himself a taste for pleco's. He ate our 8" and then 2 weeks later ate our 6". Since, we have put in two smaller ones with the same results, and it's becoming an expensive diet for him. We constantly have goldfish in there for him, but he chooses the pleco's. Are there any other "cleaning fish" I can put in there to help maintain the tank that he won't eat? Or any other thoughts so he won't eat them?

 

[jloos1988]

try other kinds of armored catfish if u just want a fish that will help clean the bottom of the tank and take care of the P's scraps...if ur looking for an algae eater i think your outta luck cuz all other algae eaters are way too small for piranahs. maybe a large clown loach but i doubt that too