*lol!* One of my friends in canada had a really nasty "red devil". It killed his "green terror". Finaly he decided to put the devil in with a serrasalmous naterri (red-bellied piranha). The devil killed the piranha.
Many tetras require a small school (at least 6) to stay well enough distracted. Tetras, and the barbs, and hatchets, are all rather agressive. Barbs and hatchets are related to piranhas.
I had a red-bellied pacu (vegi piranha) that was very dog-like. I hand fed him at least once a week. When I came home from work, he'd "dog" follow me in the tank, but if I brought friends home, he'd hide in the back corner! He was great! Once I was feeding him cheese, and he grabbed my finger by mistake. The minute I moved it, he let go and almost jumped out of the tank. Paco the Pacu was a cool fish.
He'd occasionally let me "pet" him, and he'd pal-around with Albert the Synodonis Alberti catfish from Lake Albert. He never got along with the arowana I had, they fought so much I ended up having to sell the arowana back to the fish store. (I bought Art when he was about 3 inches long; sold him when he was over a foot long. Cost: about $2, sale price: about $40.)
I had Paco for about 3 or 4 years before the Loma Prietta quake shut our power off for a week. He was about the size of a dinner plate. My roommates at the time were also fishheads; we must have lost over $1,000.00 worth of fish that week.
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Date: 2004-07-31 05:42 pm (UTC)From:One of my friends in canada had a really nasty "red devil". It killed his "green terror". Finaly he decided to put the devil in with a serrasalmous naterri (red-bellied piranha). The devil killed the piranha.
Many tetras require a small school (at least 6) to stay well enough distracted. Tetras, and the barbs, and hatchets, are all rather agressive. Barbs and hatchets are related to piranhas.
I had a red-bellied pacu (vegi piranha) that was very dog-like. I hand fed him at least once a week. When I came home from work, he'd "dog" follow me in the tank, but if I brought friends home, he'd hide in the back corner! He was great! Once I was feeding him cheese, and he grabbed my finger by mistake. The minute I moved it, he let go and almost jumped out of the tank. Paco the Pacu was a cool fish.
He'd occasionally let me "pet" him, and he'd pal-around with Albert the Synodonis Alberti catfish from Lake Albert. He never got along with the arowana I had, they fought so much I ended up having to sell the arowana back to the fish store. (I bought Art when he was about 3 inches long; sold him when he was over a foot long. Cost: about $2, sale price: about $40.)
I had Paco for about 3 or 4 years before the Loma Prietta quake shut our power off for a week. He was about the size of a dinner plate. My roommates at the time were also fishheads; we must have lost over $1,000.00 worth of fish that week.