PIRANHAS LOVE THEM OR HATE THEM ? AND WHY ?

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TaratronVaeVictus said:
Veyr dull fish, in my opinion...I neither love nor hate them; to me, and this will probably bring the furies of hell down, but alas, to me, RBP, the only piranhas I have direct experience with, are suited to being display fish. They are not active fish, not particularly interesting fish; perhaps if one had a very large pool with several dozen, the intraspecies interactions would be something to watch. Otherwise...dull. I'd much rather watch the squabblings of shelldweller cichlids.
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Dull but pretty
 
since starting my hobby of fish just a year ago or so, i have had my fair share of piranhas, actually many of them. at first the idea of them really interested me.

i had a couple different single species serras at different times, and never had to good of a time with them, usually boring. and i also had some smaller shoals of pygos, most recently 5 cariba, but againt they get kind of boring. once they are 5 inches no matter what species, their growth slows dramitcally. thats what i like is watching growth, so i think the only thing that would interest me at this point is buying them big, like a 12+ inch Rhom.

So instead i have decided to get into Ciclids and aros.
 
Hate em, I had two RB and they were the most boring fish I've ever seen. All they did was sit in the corner all day. I had them for three months and saw them eat twice, and that was when I turned all of the lights in the room off and stood where they couldn't see me and sat and waited like 20 min
 
They are a three second fish. Ooh pretty..... three seconds later your looking for a pond to through the damn things in. Puffers are fun to whatch eat. Piranhas are just poop fish.
 
Hiya Vinnie, welcome to MFK, I think that the people who are disapointed in them just expected to much. To many old adventure movies.
 
maybe i got lucky, cause my 2 pygos arn't skittish at all! And overrated tetra? A 12 " black rhom is not an overrated tetra!
 
love them but i dont keep them anymore i did think about getting a manny recently but then decided against it.
i have kept quite a few species of p's now but sorta lost interest when i found asian aro's.
dixon
 
IMO:

Any fish that strikes fear into man is welcome in my aquarium... :thumbsup:
 
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