I am wondering what kind of diet you all with large RB Pacu are feeding them. I am planning on a 3000+ gallon tank and would like to keep 2 or 3 in there among other fish. I am just planning ahead as to what is needed to keep them healthy.
What do you feed full grown RB Pacu?
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pacus will eat just about any aquarium fish food. live, fresh, frozen, prepared. the pacus i had were my garbage disposal crew. they rarely, if ever, refuse anything edible. the best foods would be a mix of veggies and fruits of different types and high quality protein (large) pellets.
steal old people from retirement homes or bums off the street... they are the ones who wont be missed... 
J/K
but seriously they are swimming garbage cans... they will eat anything
J/Kbut seriously they are swimming garbage cans... they will eat anything
I understand that they will eat anything. I guess what I am asking is; what would be the closest to there natural diet? Should it be 100% vegitarian or some percentage of meat/vegitarian foods?
pacus are basically opportunist feeders in the wild. they would even mingle with piranhas to snatch bits/pieces of the flesh the piranhas disperse during feeding frenzy. but they have also been observed feeding on fallen fruits and nuts on the flooded parts of the jungle during the rainy season. the key is to feed them a varied diet, and plenty of 'em.
My pacus diet includes: Omega One Large Cichlid Pellets, Spirilina disks, Tetra Cichlid Sticks, chunks of whitefish, Spirilina frozen fish food cubes, cucumber, grapes, unsalted peanuts, and he gets alot of spinach/peas/carrots in the fishfood that I make for all my tanks. Ive found that with a Pacu, the more you feed the more they want fed 
Mine goes through half a fillet of fresh fish and about 40-50 cichlid pellets in a feeding, 2x a day. Then for variety, he has 2 packs of frozen bloodworms as a snack on weekends.