Piranha Club

[jonny_dw]

Well there is snakeheads and oscar ones so I thought why not start a piranha one!

Post up a picture of your fish and put your post number in your sig "eg Piranha Club 1*"

So here is mine

It's a female, around 4.5 to 5" now, had her since 11th September 2008 at 3" sorry my phone camera is bad, she has a more greenish tint to her in the right light, similar to Manueli I think

Quick Video aswell

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[england]

hehe that's one club i cannot join, shame as there beautiful fish, a huge tank of red bellie's is an awsome sight

 

[simonas]

there are some in my LFS at the moment a little larger than yo usallu see for sale and I;m tempted even though i don;t have spare tank

lovely looking fish, can you keep many in a tank or is that just an impossible ask with these fish

 

[always4lora]

Depends on the species and size of the of the tank they'd be going into. Most seem to be either a groups of 5+ or solitary

 

[jonny_dw]

I assume were talking tank bred red's? 4 can be kept in a 75 us gallon tank for life, then its roughly 20 gallons for each extra fish. You need minimum 4 to spread out aggression or ideally 6 or more. any less than 4 are likely to fight until one is dead, can keep one on its own but a tank bred red is likely to be very shy. If you want just one piranha have a look at serrasalmus species, their solitary and have cracking character!

hehe that's one club i cannot join, shame as there beautiful fish, a huge tank of red bellie's is an awsome sight

Sure is mate, dunno how much you know about piranhas but a shoal of big piraya is an awesome sight

 

[spikeyboy]

Nice fish How can you tell it`s female ?

 

[jonny_dw]

The general consensus with pristobrycon species is that females have a straight anal fin where as males have a circular cut out mid way down the fin.