henward Posted July 18, 2013 Report Share Posted July 18, 2013 I LIKE TURTLES! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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rabid Posted July 18, 2013 Report Share Posted July 18, 2013 The guy who owned the rangiora lfs before it went out of business said he had pirahna at home, i kept listening.... then he said he had some for sale, i puzzlingly questioned further and then was shown them - long story short they were meytynnis sp., small too. I think they get false id in a lot of cases with small pacu, especially places like animates who have trouble IDIng the most simple fish and just read what is on their list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disgustipated Posted July 18, 2013 Report Share Posted July 18, 2013 yeah those metynnis look a lot like piranha, and the red hook dollars. i think it's likely that people buy pacu or metynnis and just say they have piranha to sound cool. but i'd like to believe there are some here..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disgustipated Posted July 18, 2013 Report Share Posted July 18, 2013 piranha are much prettier than dollars or pacu. they look like they are covered in silver glitter. very pretty fish imo. and quite docile. here is a pic of that madman jeremy wade in a pool with a bunch of piranha that haven't been fed in a week or so. he later on drops in a bit of blood - while he's in there. and they just left him alone... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David R Posted July 18, 2013 Report Share Posted July 18, 2013 Yeah they're pretty timid in most cases, the storied about them tearing cows to pieces would be from the odd occasion where a school gets stranded in an isolated pool somewhere as the high water drops at the end of the wet season in the Amazon. A week isn't that long, maybe if they'd left them for a month or two with minimal food they would have gone for him... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disgustipated Posted July 18, 2013 Report Share Posted July 18, 2013 good article here. apparently the producers of the show deliberately stalled and messed up the takes so he would have to stay in there longer... http://dailycaller.com/2010/07/07/jerem ... rtainment/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted July 19, 2013 Report Share Posted July 19, 2013 We say quite a few piranha for sale when we were overseas. All looked quite boring from a colour point of view (but fish often don't look their best in shop tanks) and all were very tatty from nipping. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F15hguy Posted July 19, 2013 Report Share Posted July 19, 2013 Im shore about 6 years ago animates was selling piranas here in tauranga. lol, that was a poor little pacu that was being seriously abused, sold them a big Pleco to go in with it, had to spend half an hour acclimating it as they had no idea what to do with it. it ended up in a turtle tank then dead from what I heard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rabid Posted July 19, 2013 Report Share Posted July 19, 2013 i guess for fish being re-animated is a threat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boban_nz Posted July 19, 2013 Report Share Posted July 19, 2013 I have had the opportunity to look after Red Belly piranhas on several ocassions. They are very shy fish, always swimming in a school. Having my arm in the fish tank doing what was necessary was not a problem at all. Regardless of a very good feed, the fish were very nasty to each other when they were left on their own. Usually, all I saw was just a fish head as everything else was eaten. Some individuals were bitten, usually a chunk of flesh off the back off the fish. On one occasion when I had a fish in the net, it flicked over and in a spilt second it took a chunk of skin off my finger. I was very lucky that it was just a little fish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disgustipated Posted July 19, 2013 Report Share Posted July 19, 2013 !drool: that's my kinda fish... um... by the way.. where was this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fish guy Posted July 19, 2013 Report Share Posted July 19, 2013 :slfg: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boban_nz Posted July 19, 2013 Report Share Posted July 19, 2013 This was here in New Zealand. It was an import of piranhas for Kelly Tarlton and National Aquarium. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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