This Is Bad...

[hensonc4098]

In the AGA Aquascaping contest: an entrant with piranhas and neon tetras?!?! Surely they are just asking for a feeding frenzy? I don't really know though as I am anything but the piranha specialist but it seems a bit odd.
Here is the link to the entrants page:

http/showcase.aquatic-gardeners.org/2007...vol=3&id=74

 

[Truck]

its been done before, the piranhas are well fed

 

[oliesminis]

and maybe there is a tank of replacement neons in the back just in case lol

 

[Truck]

these tanks are set up only for a few days anyway

 

[Davo86]

Think of the size difference between a Piranha and a neon,
The Piranha would lose more energy catching the neon than it would gain from eating it.

Therefore the neons and otocinclus that are present in the tank should be fine until the Piranhas become desperate for food,
and even then it is more likely that the weakest Piranha would be on the menu rather than the neons.

 

[bae1994]

i was thinking about big fish and tiny fish the other day and thought would they even bother but then again some wales feed on plankton

 

[hensonc4098]

its been done before, the piranhas are well fed

I thought that may be the case if they were well fed they wouldn't bother with them Thanks anyway for clarifying

C

 

[england]

wow look at the size of that tank, they have tonne's of room to escape, real near slice of river system, wow

 

[hollanda88]

i was thinking about big fish and tiny fish the other day and thought would they even bother but then again some wales feed on plankton

But they expend tiny ammount of energy doing this to get crap loads of plankton lol

 

[fifefish]

i was thinking about big fish and tiny fish the other day and thought would they even bother but then again some wales feed on plankton

But they expend tiny ammount of energy doing this to get crap loads of plankton lol

also whales are mammals not fish
so do not have the same characteristics

 

[hollanda88]

i was thinking about big fish and tiny fish the other day and thought would they even bother but then again some wales feed on plankton

But they expend tiny ammount of energy doing this to get crap loads of plankton lol

also whales are mammals not fish
so do not have the same characteristics

Same principle though, like keeping a predator of any type with small prey sp. fishing cat and fish for example

 

[jonny_dw]

In the wild its likely neons would be swimming near piranhas, just in aquariums we usually have tanks obviously nowhere near that capacity. a juvenile piranha will try its luck with a neons and most likely win, as will a hungry adult but generally an adult wouldnt bother as its alot of energy to use and probably wont catch it. I dont recommend people trying neons with piranhas in an aquarium at home, well fed or not.

 

[fifefish]

oh yeah these are cardinal not neons

just being a little pedantic

..
cardinals naturally are eaten by larger fish such as piranha, but since cardinals shoal in hundreds at a time they form a strong defensive shoal that makes it hard for bigger fish to eat them.

 

[marksayer10@tiscali.co.uk]

wow what a tank. that is amazing

 

[hensonc4098]

Yeh - it is pretty big
It makes the piranhas look small