PIRAYA HELP!

[Armand]

aight guys i need ur help fast! i started off wit 10 2inch pirayas in a 180g... i had lost 1 a month ago but i found 2 dead today!! im really pissed about it. the thing is i have 3 that r a lot bigger (about 4inch) than the rest so they keep attacking them... my idea is to use my separator and divide both groups till the small ones get bigger. this way the small ones will be able to eat in peace. thats where i need your help... is it a good IDEA?! i was thinkin givin 60% of the tank to the bigger ones and 40% to the smaller ones. what do u guys think cuz i need to do soemthing! u all no that theyre pretty expensive...

thanx

Are U kiddin' me man?????

Firts mistake: 10 pirayas in a 180g tank. It would work for a while as the pirayas are small but in short those pirayas are going to outgrow that aparently big enouh tank and then you'll end up with a carnage. A single piraya needs at least 100g for life and you have 10. Can you imagine?????.

Second big mistake: 3 of them are much more bigger than the rest: It is quite obvious that the bigger ones would think the smallers are feeders, expecially if we are talking about 4" in size difference....

Yes you can split the tank it wouuld save your smaller pirayas life but rememmber you are not going to be able to keep all of them, sooner or later you must get rid of the mayority of them, a 180g would only be suitable for 2 pirayas in long term. otherwise you would have to had the means to keep them in a 1000g set up man...


What you where thinking on when you brought home those 10 pirayas for the god sake?????.

Would you take home a lion cub juts because his small size and tender look makes you think you would be able to keep him for life????.

 

[jp80911]

Maybe the plan is that the shoal will thin themselves out ???

I got my lecture from P-fury

 

[Armand]

Maybe the plan is that the shoal will thin themselves out ???

I got my lecture from P-fury

Yeah it coud be an answer but it is a very expensive style of piranha keeping. -a hell of a waste of excelent fish-loosing 6 or maybe 7 out of ten piraya doesnt sound too good for a real piranha fan don't you think so?????

 

[Diogenes]

Would you take home a lion cub juts because his small size and tender look makes you think you would be able to keep him for life????.

Indeed...indeed....something about this sentence seems terribly funny. I think it's the use of "small size" and "tender look," in the same sentence. Awesome!



I'll tell you what you should do.

Purchase one 14+ inch rhom. Place in tank. Your piraya problems will magically disappear. Then you'll have a really rad monster rhom setup.

 

[jp80911]

Yeah it coud be an answer but it is a very expensive style of piranha keeping. -a hell of a waste of excelent fish-loosing 6 or maybe 7 out of ten piraya doesnt sound too good for a real piranha fan don't you think so?????

Indeed...indeed....something about this sentence seems terribly funny. I think it's the use of "small size" and "tender look," in the same sentence. Awesome!



I'll tell you what you should do.

Purchase one 14+ inch rhom. Place in tank. Your piraya problems will magically disappear. Then you'll have a really rad monster rhom setup.

I was thinking about I let the lion cub to have my master bedroom and I'll use the guest room, still not big enough??

Actually I have a better idea, why doesn't he send us all his smaller size pirayas then his piraya problems will magically disappear, there will be many other happy piraya owners what do you think about that idea?

 

[Diogenes]

I was thinking about I let the lion cub to have my master bedroom and I'll use the guest room, still not big enough??

jeah until the MFer gets big. Come home from work and do this in the living room everyday:

 

[Armand]

Yeah it might soud crazy but if you are thinking on a 180G overstocked of pirayas you might not directly feel the fear to face them in the middle of your livingroom unless you were one of the smaller pirayas in that tank dude....

A 180g cramped piraya tank is cruel for your fish......

 

[jp80911]

jeah until the MFer gets big. Come home from work and do this in the living room everyday:

Isn't that the whole idea of getting a lion cub? I mean If I can't do that everyday when I get home, what's the point?

Yeah it might soud crazy but if you are thinking on a 180G overstocked of pirayas you might not directly feel the fear to face them in the middle of your livingroom unless you were one of the smaller pirayas in that tank dude....

A 180g cramped piraya tank is cruel for your fish......

I think that's just as crazy when you put your hand/arm in to clean the tank with over stocked and pissed off 18-20" pirayas

 

[Armand]

I think that's just as crazy when you put your hand/arm in to clean the tank with over stocked and pissed off 18-20" pirayas

Yeah it would be just in the case that they reached adulthood but in such living conditions most of them wouldn't make it though.

 

[master.k.]

Funny !