the most ferocious freshwater fish

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cepon3;2923841; said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7F36WtMXZM

To CaribeMob..

The point of me putting them together was not so that they kill eachother, i was experimenting on what may work as a possible cohab.. The fish were introduced to the tank at the same time and within mintutes the ternetzi were all but finished.. It didnt work out the way i had hoped.. My fish is a killer and i wont be putting him in with anything other then possible mates.. I will not argue with you on if my fish would kill yours because quite frankly it doesnt matter.. In my opinion, and my opinion is a very well versed one, The brandtii or atleast my brandtii, is the most aggressive piranha i have ever seen.. I am far from new at keeping piranha and have kept many species.. And like you stated earlier there is obviously strength in numbers.. but single pygos lack the quickness that serrasalmus species rely on to survive.. When fish confront eachother in the aquarium the fight has to do with only 1 thing, the will of the fish to win.. You destroy the fishes will to fight and the fight is over.. Countless cichlid cohabs have cemented this theory.. Two fish only fight when they think that they can win, if not the weaker one moves away or gets killed.. which is where it comes down to the actual fish, if your fish or my fish or any other fish got its fins ripped off, they usually will dart out of there to avoid death.. Seeing that serrasalmus are fin nippers and scale eaters in the wild this is what they will do naturally..Thus putting them at a natural advantage over the clumbsier broad faced pygo.. I am also well aware of how nasty gibbus can be but in my book, the brandtii takes the cake hands down..
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dammit that fish is gorgeous!
 
cepon3;2923970; said:
Thank you very much.. how is the marginatus? any updates
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nah. He's doing this weird thing with his pigments. Sometimes they're only above the lateral line, sometimes they extend down to the serrae. Sometimes they're just spots, sometimes they're elongated spots, and occasionally they look like bars on a tiger or something. He's gotten a little bigger. He's a lot more active now. Banging glass, eating food in front of me, he loves black skirt tetras. One time he bit through the bag full of them when it was floating in the water waiting to climatize, and started devouring them left and right. He's mean as a rattlesnake, but scared of everything. Typical piranha... :grinno:
 
Diogenes;2923987; said:
nah. He's doing this weird thing with his pigments. Sometimes they're only above the lateral line, sometimes they extend down to the serrae. Sometimes they're just spots, sometimes they're elongated spots, and occasionally they look like bars on a tiger or something. He's gotten a little bigger. He's a lot more active now. Banging glass, eating food in front of me, he loves black skirt tetras. One time he bit through the bag full of them when it was floating in the water waiting to climatize, and started devouring them left and right. He's mean as a rattlesnake, but scared of everything. Typical piranha... :grinno:
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It took 8 months for my brandtii to show his true colors, but once he did he hasnt looked back.. The brandtii even chases down feeder guppies:ROFL:.. Get some pics mannn..
 
nice to read everyone though in this forum,
but just to let you guys know something, my previous RBPs, which was only about 2" when I bought them, there were really aggressive too; they were not affected by the harsh conditions of the tank that I set up for them; the 50 gallon tank was only for temporary and was overflowed with light, and no hiding space at all; but surprisingly, just 3 days after I bought the RBPs, they would eat anything I put in the tank in front of me, chasing the feeders too. Well I though sometimes you got lucky when selecting the piranhas in lfs.
cheers
 
from one arguement to another this thread has it all...
getting back to the original query...piranhas killing maching..umm maybe.
aggressive..not really.
also aggressiveness depends on individual fish.one rhom may be shy and timid another maybe a finger chaser..
 
Most ferocious freshwater fish?

pound for pound convict mama with fry:

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