Originally posted by: Slickone
Originally posted by: phreakah
Originally posted by: brian_riendeau
You are going to destroy that tank if you keep feeding this fish huge chunks of food like that, especially if that Bass gets eaten. There is no way the tank can process the waste of a large fish getting eaten and you are gonna have an ammonia spike...
Stick with smaller things like Goldfish. Another thing you want to keep an eye on, feeder goldfish are typically diseased from poor conditions. Watching your Pirahna rip through a $2 is not funny when they are all infected a week later because you brought disease into the tank. Try breeding your own fish to feed the Pirahna. Check out
http://www.piranha-fury.com/pfury/index.php for loads of carnivore discussion for keeping them responsibly.
You can buy frozen beef heart at most pet stores for cheap as well, great carnivore food.
hey i post on pfury and i know what the hell i'm doing, so please don't lecture me on proper fish keeping.
kthanks bye
Damn that was an unnecessary response. Who cares if you post on pfury? brian_riendeau is correct. You're trashing your tank if you constantly feed them large fish. And he's right about the goldfish & disease. And I can't believe you'd put a large mouth bass of that size in there. If they did kill it, they're gonna eat way too much, and the eaten and uneaten portions would trash your tank. LMB are highly aggressive. Perhaps it doesn't have enough room in there (but I wouldn't take the chance), but in a bigger tank, with only 7 piranha of that size, it'd probably eat every one of them. Piranha are timid fish who just happen to have teeth, and can survive by living in schools. Stick a few good sized Jack Dempsies or even Oscars (yes, a Jack Dempsey is more agressive than an Oscar) in there and see who wins. Jack's and Oscars can move decent sized rocks, tear out your undergravel filters, etc. Piranha's take several bites. Jack's, Oscars, etc just eat the other fish whole. Hell,
Blue Gill will eat Piranhas.
And yes, I saw the linked thread with the video, but I've seen the reverse happen too. Plus a fish is always stunned when you first put it in a tank. And of course that was one small (it was not 7.5") oscar against many.
To the 2-3 that said put a cat in there: rot in hell.
To the people that asked, piranah's are known for being high maintenance since you have to keep buying live food and since they dirty up a tank pretty easily. They're skittish, timid and hide a lot. BTW, they do need hiding spots in a tank. They require a large tank. You take a chance when cleaning the tank. They outgrow tanks and people let them go in the lake. Which is why they're illegal in many states. Like Snakeheads from Asia that are being found in lakes in the US. It's not *cool*. It's a bad thing.
SearchMaster, did you have your African cichlids in brackish, hard, alkaline (high pH) water, like they require?
Cichlids are very cool since many are mouth brooders and hold their eggs and even fry in their mouth when they're born.