Flying Pacu story

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Tightdog1

Chinaman Can!
Sep 2, 2002
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I have 2 red-belied pacus in a 55g tank (i know overcrowded, in the process of giving them away, if u want em their yours), and they love to jump out of the tank probably because its way way too small for them.

Well the other night i was sleeping in the living room, and happen to hear a glass on glass sound, along with somew other intense sound thats is very continous, this woke me up so i run into my room and i find that i only have 1 pacu in my tank, i look behind the tank where all the noise is coming from and find "Gimpy", my smaller pacu at about 8" flopping around slappin into my blinds on my window so i try to grab him and after about 30 second of failed attempts at putting GImpy back in the tank i succeed. he swims circles around in the tank for a few minutes, to get air back into his gills but eventually gets back to normal operation. i find that he jumped out of the tank through to cover i have, he jumped at the hood and moved the glass off the tank so that he could jump out, they seem to jump out about every month it seems only at night and i get woken up every time. i have since placed bags of old aquarium rocks on top of the glass so theu cannot jusmp out anymore, but sometimes they still seem to get out.
 
My Pacus, kind of a crappy pic but it works

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You could fillet them. J/K. I actually talked to a guy once who said that he did that. They were apparently very soft.
 
actually i have thought of that and was considering it because no one seems to want my pacus, and i have read that they are eaten in south america just like salmon are eaten here.
 
Aquarium fish are very nasty eating, mainly from swimming around in their own crap for their entire life and from any medications added to the tank. There is a high probability that you could get seriously sick. :eek:

You could always just let them go in some lake or river :p. (I know, bad joke.)
 
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nice pacus

i have an 11 inch red belly and a 9 1/2 inch oscar in a 55g they've never jumped though

***frameshift, wouldn't that be the point of cooking of the fish?

i have heard of people who have eaten them, not that i would
 
Many medicines used in keeping tropical fish are known carcinogens, can cause birth defects, and are persistent in a fish long after the treatment is concluded. That is why they are marked "for ornamental fish only", and why you should never eat your fish.

These pacus are becoming skittish because they are being kept in far too small a tank. I had two in a 125 a while ago and had to upgrade them, first to a 280 and finally to a 400, because their behavior was becoming destructive. They can break heaters, chew through power cords, knock rocks through glass (especially in a 55, where the glass isn't all that thick to begin with).

I don't know why fish stores sell these things yet they do, often when they are silver-dollar sized, and people just don't know what they are getting. The number of hobbyists that can actually give these fish a home is very small, and public aquaria have all that they can handle already. If you can get them to Fishcube, you should by all means do so, as that is an offer that will not come along every day.
 
they caught one in the mississippi river last year [ in southern minnesota] and the headline said "Man Catches Piranah!" evidently they werent looking at its teeth. somebody set them straight a week later.
 
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