The Hulk Pacu

[piranha45]

This guy is 13lbs, about 2 ft long... fought like a train :22_yikes:

wow, ill say! surprised he didnt manage to chew the line off...

 

[crazy pacu]

Dear brudder of mine..that is an AWESOME piece!!!! you should have thrown it to one of my tank!

Thanks bro, i actually contemplated that idea but i reckon it will end up sitting at the bottom of the tank cos it wun be able to turn properly

 

[RockyGoldy]

Thanks bro, i actually contemplated that idea but i reckon it will end up sitting at the bottom of the tank cos it wun be able to turn properly

Hah..good thinking there..anyway..such a beauty deserves all the freedom possible...guess at this size...no tank is good enuff to hold it comfortably...

 

[OdOePiKe]

Red Pacu's get about 30" and would need about 180 gallon. Black Pacu's get to be 60" and need at least a 500 gallon tank.

Your Oscars will get to be just little over a foot long, about 13". And I hope you are not keeping them in that 29 gallon as two of them will need something like a 75 gallon.

all packs are the same there is only one species

 

[MN_Rebel]

all packs are the same there is only one species

Nope there are two species of pacu we kept....sadly both get HUGE! Black pacus are getting uncommon these days but red-belly pacus remained very common.

 

[OdOePiKe]

oh my bad

 

[domingos.44]

i have a monster 23 inch black pacu with arowanas and oscars never any isuses they all get along well

 

[Oddball]

I thought there were 8 species considered to be pacu:

Acnodon normani - Sheep Pacu
Acnodon oligacanthus
Colossoma macropomum - Black Pacu
Piaractus brachypomus - Red-Bellied Pacu
Piaractus mesopotamicus - Yellow Pacu
Mylesinus paraschomburgkii - Pacu-Cana
Mylesinus paucisquamatus - Curupete Pacu
Mylesinus schomburgkii - Pacu

 

[MN_Rebel]

I thought there were 8 species considered to be pacu:

Acnodon normani - Sheep Pacu
Acnodon oligacanthus
Colossoma macropomum - Black Pacu
Piaractus brachypomus - Red-Bellied Pacu
Piaractus mesopotamicus - Yellow Pacu
Mylesinus paraschomburgkii - Pacu-Cana
Mylesinus paucisquamatus - Curupete Pacu
Mylesinus schomburgkii - Pacu

Yes there are more species of Pacu, but only two species are commonly kept in aquarium trade.