Red Bellies with Oscar
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channarox;1885648; said:
unless you do it right...
I used to keep an oscar, 3 RBPs, a JD, and a spotted gar in the same tank. they got along fine, as long as they were well fed. piranha and oscars live together in the wild, and oscars aren't extinct.
that being said, I wouldn't try to keep more than 3 piranha with an oscar in a 55 for very long. they're gonna need a much larger tank before a year is over.
IF YOU SEE YOUR NON-PIRANHA'S FINS DISAPPEARING, YOU AREN'T FEEDING YOUR PIRANHA ENOUGH. CORRECT THAT SITUATION!
Can be done for minimal time-
Long term-Nothing will work with piranha's
Overcrowding-Can be accomplished as well-You are certainly pushing the boundries with that many in a 55----But you can raise them to a fair size before they are going to have to be moved....Setting the tank up right is the key....
But you better have plans for selling most of them as they grow-Or buying a bigger tank or provideing them with a pond big enough to suite them all....
Long term-Nothing will work with piranha's
Overcrowding-Can be accomplished as well-You are certainly pushing the boundries with that many in a 55----But you can raise them to a fair size before they are going to have to be moved....Setting the tank up right is the key....
But you better have plans for selling most of them as they grow-Or buying a bigger tank or provideing them with a pond big enough to suite them all....
Maybe. I think he'll eat them all, day by day. But they should give him a good beating on the way.ALEXANDER7;1886244; said:
That ray was dead...jdiidy271;1886251; said:
If you have the oscar and the rbps you won't. Pick one or the other. And down grade on the amount of your rbps.xFLEAxx;1886473; said:
ive had success keeping p's with armored catfish, i currently have some rbp's and a hoplo cat and pleco in the same tank, but its not really a question of if they rbps will attack the catfish its a question of when but so far they have been fine for the past year in there but i plan on moving the hoplo out soon
pcfriedrich;1886203; said:
That depends on the situation and the piranha. Many species of piranhas strictly feed on other fishe's scales and fins.
Of course, in this situation, that would be true. 
EDIT: Sorry for the derail, i'll shut up now
xFLEAxx;1886473; said:
For the Ocsar and an Oscar buddy, but not for all of those swimming teeth
