Red Bellies???
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Not me, but here's an exerpt from a book I have:
"Only three or four species of piranhas have been bred in captivity. Almost all of these have occured at public aquariums where single-species shoal of adult specimens were housed in aquariums at least 1000 gallons."
One of those species is the red bellied piranhas, of course. So therefore to attempt breeding, you will need a shoal of at least 6 to 8 adult specimens, in an aquarium from 100 to 250g. BTW it takes about 2 years to grow a red belly to adulthood, even in the best of conditions.
If you really have the time, money, commitment et all, then use lots of plants as these guys build nests in the roots of floating plants. Lots and lots of plants... A section of the tank should be thickly planted for that matter. Breeding colors of the red bellies are grey with a lot of silver sparkles on their back. They almost completely lose the red. They chase themselves a lot, and rub their bellies during courtship. When fry becomes free-swimming, they are large enough to eat live brine shrimp.
Hope this answers your question!
"Only three or four species of piranhas have been bred in captivity. Almost all of these have occured at public aquariums where single-species shoal of adult specimens were housed in aquariums at least 1000 gallons."
One of those species is the red bellied piranhas, of course. So therefore to attempt breeding, you will need a shoal of at least 6 to 8 adult specimens, in an aquarium from 100 to 250g. BTW it takes about 2 years to grow a red belly to adulthood, even in the best of conditions.
If you really have the time, money, commitment et all, then use lots of plants as these guys build nests in the roots of floating plants. Lots and lots of plants... A section of the tank should be thickly planted for that matter. Breeding colors of the red bellies are grey with a lot of silver sparkles on their back. They almost completely lose the red. They chase themselves a lot, and rub their bellies during courtship. When fry becomes free-swimming, they are large enough to eat live brine shrimp.
Hope this answers your question!
go to piranha-fury.com go to the bredding section of the forums. many many people on that site have breed piranhas. once they first breed there liek rabbits. the hard part is making the fry survive. out of liek 150 of them you may only get 30 if ur lucky 
I looked at some info on the internet and frim all that I have read that is what they are doing.. I have two that are digging holes and the three others are at the top of the tank. This is going to be cool.. I am going to remove the eggs when they are layed. Put them in a ten gallon and watch them.. This is so cool for me.. I have had these for almost 5 yrs and never have they done anything like this...
My suggestion is use a U tube to connect the main tank to the 10 gal tank. This way the water is exactly the same as the main tank. The eggs are less likely to go into shock this way. Which I believe is the reason eggs are hard to hatch.495 said:
