The ball-cutter fish is one scary sight.

[dennilfloss]

Look at them teeth...😵 No nice sharp "you might feel a pinch" piranha cut there, those things will shred and grind. Still, most politicians need not fear it.:whiste:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pic...241/Pictures-of-the-day-28-December-2011.html

 

[Howard]

shens

 

[HamburgerBoy]

shens

www.x.co.uk/news/

Yep.

 

[Schfifty Five]

They say that fish is 40 lbs? Yet in the pic it looks pretty small.

 

[silverpig]

They say that fish is 40 lbs? Yet in the pic it looks pretty small.

40 oz more like it.

 

[foghorn67]

40 oz more like it.

..of Mickey's.

 

[Lifted]

That thing would be more fun than a piranha when neutering cats.

 

[Soccerman06]

Jeremy wade caught a 40lb one, not the pictured one, in one of the river monster episodes. Yes they exist.

 

[BUTCH1]

Jeremy wade caught a 40lb one, not the pictured one, in one of the river monster episodes. Yes they exist.

Wonder if he used bull's testicles as bait!, in any event skinny dipping not advised..

 

[highland145]

2nd cousin?

 

[DrPizza]

Pacus get heavier than 40 pounds. And, primarily, they are vegetarians, though they'll eat just about anything. As far as bleeding to death - why? Farmers reach in & lop off the testicles of cattle all the time - they don't bleed to death.

You can buy pacus at the pet store. Most people think that fish don't outgrow their aquariums. Pacus do. They just keep getting bigger and bigger. It's pretty cool once they're large enough to eat whole carrots - you can hear them biting off big chunks. My brother had a pacu - the thing would pick up rocks and smash them into the side of the aquarium, as if trying to escape. It broke one aquarium that way (and was placed in a bucket of water until transferred to another aquarium - barely survived.)

 

[tboo]

There is a whole episode of River Monsters dedicated to this fish.

 

[alkemyst]

that's nuts!

 

[BoomerD]

I've never heard of pacu being called "ball cutters" before.

They're pretty common in the aquarium trade. Relatively docile relatives of the piranha.

http://pacufish.org/