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greenmonkey51
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male usa
i got some redeye tetras today and one it almost full size. i looked at the mouth and the teeth look like piranhas
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TIGER9
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all tetras have some form of teeth, most do bare a good resemblence to piranha teeth, but piranha have true teeth, while most other tetras have "false" or "pseudo" teeth. they are teeth shaped growths that are part of the jawbone.
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greenmonkey51
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they still look scary
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amilner
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They may nip fins of other fish but thats just their nature.
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