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Well today i went on the hunt for a Piranha. fisrts i went to a tiny shop where they had one for £15 not long ago. It had been sold . So then i made my away across town to another where i searched the shop high and low. Didn't find any

As i left the assistant asked if i was looking for anything imparticular. I told him i was looking for a piranha and he said they had loads!! What an idiot i'd gone past a 60g tank full of em!!

He's about 3.5" and he was £7.50 (not too bad)

When i got him home i did the usual float the bag and water gradually. But he just sat on the bottom of the tank panting!!

I came in a couple of hours later and he's swimming around like fish should!! i wanted to call him jack the nipper but he's been named "pete the piranha" - not my choice

so i suppose i should add a pic of him. Heres a close up of him in his bag



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Heres a bigger shot of him, he has really nice bold colours. ashame my webcam can't do them justice.

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Jack the nipper sounds better. I kinda like that. He looks great hope it all goes well for you.

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thanks. I'm still trying to decide what to feed him. I think he'll accept ghost shrimp. He looks to ickle to eat feeders. Might go and get some meat out the freezer

just one? they're schooling fish...

Sorry they only had 2 anyway. my reasons for getting one were

1. i could only afford one
2. They only had two anyway
3. I don't want to overload the filter to quickly

I plant to get another one sometime this week. I'll gradually build the shoal up to 4-6

Thats good news. Good luck

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Heres a close up pic of him in his tank:

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if u want pirhanas let me know, i can hook u up. babies 1 inch. up to 4-5 inch dudes.

That would be cool exept i live in the UK and im not sure they would be able to be shipped here. I know fish come to the fish shops all the way from singapore. But i don't know if the P+P charges would make them more expensive.

Red-bellied piranhas get up to 16" long and will outgrow a 65 gallon tank pretty quickly.







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Last edited by Cory Addict at 04-Apr-2005 21:51

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

16" !!!!

Potential Size: 30cm (11.8"

Maybe 16" in the wild.

They're only in a 33g for under a year. Or whenever i find the room to assemble my 200g. (Most likely when i move out)

Last edited by Fish_Can_Fly at 05-Apr-2005 05:04