anyone want some piranhas?

[stev0]

well my parents decided to move to flordia, and since i'm only home for the summers, away at college now in the winter and i can't take my boys with me. i need to find a new home for my 8" and 10" red bellies. 55g tank min. is needed, probably best if you lived close to fargo, nd/minneapolis, mn, but i suppose i can ship them out too (you pay shipping) otherwise they are free... any takers?

 

[StarcraftGOD]

will they be mean to my goldfish?!

 

[chiwawa626]

I had a goldfish once, i kept it in a jar...my parakeet would walk around the jar and follow the fishy

 

[spanky]

those are some monster sized red bellies!!! the ones i had were 2" at best.

 

[stev0]

yes... they eat about 15-20 large goldfish/day, about double their body weight. (diet varies from chiclid pellets, feeder goldfish, cow heart, beef stew meat and any other random meat/seafood that is available.)

i've really only had them for about 8 months, but I keep the water temp around 82 and feed them everyday to encourage growth.

 

[spanky]

did u ever lose a finger?

 

[StarcraftGOD]

Originally posted by: chiwawa626
I had a goldfish once, i kept it in a jar...my parakeet would walk around the jar and follow the fishy

HAHA thats leet

 

[chiwawa626]

Originally posted by: StarcraftGOD

Originally posted by: chiwawa626
I had a goldfish once, i kept it in a jar...my parakeet would walk around the jar and follow the fishy

HAHA thats leet

w00t..i like u ... u seem to laugh or reply to the same threads as me welcome to AT

 

[Brutuskend]

What ever you do, DO NOT turn them loose!!

Several years back someone pulled a HUGH piranha out of one of the lakes up here. And it had happend before. Luckly they were not pulled out of the SAME lake, or there could have been MAJOR problems..........

Piranha taken

And here

 

[spanky]

Originally posted by: Brutuskend
What ever you do, DO NOT turn them loose!!

Several years back someone pulled a HUGH piranha out of one of the lakes up here. And it had happend before. Luckly they were not pulled out of the SAME lake, or there could have been MAJOR problems..........

i have no idea what this post means

 

[Brutuskend]

What that post means is this. There are NO natural predators for these fish in the US that I know of. The native fish make GREAT meals for these fish, and they get BIG. There have been several of them caught in many states. If two (A male and a female) end up in the same body of water and BREED, I will never swim again!

 

[FoBoT]

do you have a list of which states they are legal in?
i'll go check google

heh, that was easy

Missouri Legal

hmmm... i have a 45 gal. Tall that is empty, but i don't think my wife will go for it, not with a 3 year old in the house, if the kids were grown up , i would be very tempted

 

[Stiler]

shipping piranhas...hmm doubt they will get there alive but g'luck if you do.

 

[FoBoT]

shipping live fish is done all the time, you just have to use overnight, and pack them correctly
although those two are a bit on the big side and i am not sure what the "right" way to label the box would be

 

[Stiler]

i know how you could label it, "caution if you drop, tilt, break, please stick your finger inside for the surprize"

 

[Lunarcade]

Originally posted by: Brutuskend
What that post means is this. There are NO natural predators for these fish in the US that I know of. The native fish make GREAT meals for these fish, and they get BIG. There have been several of them caught in many states. If two (A male and a female) end up in the same body of water and BREED, I will never swim again!

I know I've seen this somewhere... Only it was on Sci-Fi and included giant radioactive piranhas. And those things might eat my dog if I kept feeding them like that so I'll pass.

 

[spanky]

i dunno if red bellies are the notoriously super duper vicious piranhas u speak of.

stev0... how vicious are these fishies?

 

[HamSupLo]

if no one wants them, sell them to your local fish store. These aren't pacaus, right?

 

[spanky]

Originally posted by: jooksing
if no one wants them, sell them to your local fish store. These aren't pacaus, right?

or dip them in breadcrumbs and deep fat fry 'em how's that for a natural predator

 

[slag]

Originally posted by: Brutuskend
What ever you do, DO NOT turn them loose!!

Several years back someone pulled a HUGH piranha out of one of the lakes up here. And it had happend before. Luckly they were not pulled out of the SAME lake, or there could have been MAJOR problems..........

Piranha taken

And here

Your "and here" link is a link to a pacu, definitely not a piranha and not even a carnivore. They will on occasion eat dead meat, but are primarily herbivores and prefer plants and weeds to meat.

I used to own several piranha as well as a couple pacu fish.

Joe

 

[stev0]

what slag said. not only is that fish a pacu, but there is a very slim, if any, chance that a piranha can live in a freshwater lake, unless of course the water is some where around 70 degrees at the bottom, where they would spend 90% of their time. also, just because you have a male and a female piranha together, dosen't mean they will mate... and eve if they did, like i said earlier, the water would be too cold for the fry to hatch.

shipping piranhas isn't really a problem, I've done it before, and especially now that it is the summer.

fobot: i wouldn't let them go to a smaller tank, they are out growing the 55g breeder that i have them in now... that would be a shallow 55 gallon tank if you didn't know.