piranna

[reefer17]

are pirannahs banned in california?

 

[reffer]

ya, piranas are illegal in some states, not sure which ones, but i know for sure they are illegal in california and utah.

 

[clown123]

there illegal in new york to i use to have one before they were banned there not all great!

 

[reefer17]

do they eat all crazy?

 

[clown123]

NO! i had 1 wouldnt eat at all i told my mom it was a PACU bc they look alike but i was only like 11yrs old so i fed it PORK CHOPS lol and my mom found out it was a pirana and she made me give it back lol

 

[reffer]

im not really sure of their eating habits or anything, that would probably be best answered by clown, seeing as that he has actually owned one. ive heard that a lot of the stuff that people say about piranas arent true, but im not 100%. i also think theyre illegal in michigan, i heard on the news a couple years ago thatsomebody actually caught one in a lake. i think they mentioned it being illegal there

 

[reffer]

oops, didnt see clown already answered

 

[clown123]

well mine was only in a 5g tank i forgot to say me n my cousin were trying to make it eat i think back and feel bad for the thing now WOW i use to do that 2 my fish!

 

[reefer17]

so they arent like man killers. or they dont eat a cow in like 30 sec or something?

 

[clown123]

well keep in mind i had 1 not 3+ thats when they do it or even 2 can get ya in a bad bite!

 

[oxbeard]

I had one many years ago and it was far from a voracious eater. Hard to get it to eat at all.
I think most people expect to be able to through in a drumstick or something and see it cleaned in less than 5 seconds. That 'feeding frenzy' I think is only seen in very large groups.

 

[clown123]

yea with 1 or 2 they dont do good i think they need a gruop of 4+ to actually do good and eat!

 

[mrdc]

Yep, have to be kept in a group to see frenzie eating. They can get quite large too and really aren't a pretty fish. Just my 2 cents...

 

[lovethesea]

they are legal in STL......a lfs here has a bunch. They were all swimming around in the tank in a group/school. Smaller than I expected.

 

[mrdc]

Maybe the size depends on where they come from. I am going by what I saw on the Discovery Channel and I remember saying how much bigger they were than I expected them to be. They were red in color also.

 

[clown123]

there not even worth it are they bracish or what? i had mine in freshwater but ive heard of them in saltwater?

 

[drea]

i had four in a 55... they eat live gold fish, they get ugly looking when they are older, nothing great at all, a puffer is 10* better in my opinion

 

[clown123]

drea were did u get urs on long island at the time?

 

[jjd0313]

I had eight of them for about 2 years- I think there awesome... I once feed them an oscar. I would get them again. Mine were captured not tank raised- I heard that there tougher that way.

 

[lovethesea]

are they brachish?? Didn't know, when I saw them at our LFS....they kind of "in between"
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