Any of you own a piranha? If so how did u get it?. My dad use to own one and housed it in a 30 gal tank for quite some time (before they became illegal to sell)...
Piranhas Any one own?
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I don't own any but out here they're pretty abundant. Petco's stopped carrying them but just about any Mom and Pop store around here stills has a school, which is how I'd recommend to keep them. Mostly red-bellied, but sometimes a black will show up.
I took a pair of gold spilos home last month.Only set me back $50 bucks.We had 12 (rhom)blacks at the store for 69.99 at 4 inchs and they sold in the same week.
vampire piranhas have been at my lfs lately, are they about the same as other piranhas?, I don't own any btw.
ya they will eat a big mac and french frys to but can the filter handle the saturated fat or the fish get fat and unhealthy.
It's still legal here to sell them and we do. It's a college town. Anything with teeth and an appetite will sell here. Just FYI if you are thinking about keeping them: they are really beautiful if they are healthy and don't nip each other constantly. However, we get calls at least once a week "will you take back my piranha?". People get tired of feeding it, it sits motionless in the back of the tank most of the day, it's not a very active fish. And most people want that swimming action so they can sit and watch it. Plus many times it gets overfed because it is so amusing (for some) to watch it eat, thus the water quality gets bad because they don't clean it enough.....get the picture? We've had idiots threaten to dump theirs in the lake if we don't take it back. Sweet.