Silver dollar eats minnow...

[Ej6hatchie]

Has anyone ever experienced this?? I thought silver dollars were supposed to be chill.

I threw in a minnow for my payaras and hujeta gar to eat. Before the minnow even had a chance to swim, my 6 silver dollars swarmed the minnow and shredded it to pieces... exodon style.. theyre not even huge dollars either.. ive included a pic of the action.

Thats a first..

 

[NeonFlux]

Wow., yikes. That's a first for me. Poor minnow. Never heard of SD's going piranha on live fish before.

 

[Ej6hatchie]

Wow., yikes. That's a first for me. Poor minnow. Never heard of SD's going piranha on live fish before.

Yea ive looked online and all i see related to silver dollars is herbivores, fin nippers, and plant destroyers. I feed my SD twice a day so theyre not starving. Theyre probably learning bad habits from my payara and hujeta.. heh

 

[krichardson]

Every once and a while they like a little meat with their veggies.

 

[convict360]

wow, never seen that before; though SD's are super dumb fish, and voracious, they probably didn't even realise it was alive

 

[bbortko]

Never fed minnows but mine go nuts for live black worms, , excess fry and shrimp. I also keep plants with mine so they're a bit goofy as far as SD go.

 

[Ej6hatchie]

This morning i threw in a couple pieces of krill and they didnt touch it. i figured they werent hungry from eating the minnow last night so i proceeded to sneak a minnow in from the far end of my tank and they DESTROYED it LOL... to the point that they smashed it straight into the sand and caused havoc as my other fish stared at them..

 

[xraycer]

Nobody figured that pacus have a taste for human male genatalias either

 

[catfishacr]

I had some Redhook silverdollars when i was a kid that would eat small fish.

 

[jwh]

I have 4, and feed mealworms from time to time, they display real feeding frenzy behaviour, once one grabs a worm the rest go insane, probably what happened here, one made a lunge the rest piled in