I got some new friends.

I was sent 12 piranhas but with a 5 day mail mix up only 5 made it. I think 2 might die but 3 in a 55 gallon should be perfect.

W00t, I'm so glad a few made it alright. Gratz man.

That's sweet. What species? Red-bellies are the scary ones.

no piranhas are scary lol, why would you be scared of them mike

Red-bellied piranhas are the only potentially dangerous species . . . although only three would probably just give you a few bad nips before you got out of the water.

yeah but its been proven that they dont have any interest in eating people, and the bites that are received are mainly fishermen who catch them for food.
i saw somethingrecently this guy went in a tank with them all skin covered, gave them a leg of lamb to get them excited then replace it with his own skin and they didnt want it at all lol oh and that was done with red bellies lol

There are actually a few meaner species of piranha and yes they are red bellies. It looks like only two are going to make it which poses territorial issues. These guys won't hesitate to "taste" you if you stick your finger in and blood throws them into a frenzy.

hmmmm...... me and my dad used to keep piranhas, i personaly aren't too fond of them. they dont really seem to do much unless you are feeding 'em.

calum...dont all fish do that????

lol pretty much

Piranhans are boring. Robert has some and you only see them during feeding time. Ehh...

need any caresheets??

the thing i love about them is that its been shown that there not viscous and dont allways kill there food and in most cases just take bites out of fish including there shoal mates lmao

if you give them the rite sized food it doesnt even touch their teeth...they just eat it whole.
they also eat fish food pellets lol
i stll want 4...

I think only 2 of them are going to pull through. Oh well they are in a 55 gallon so I guess I don't want a whole lot but 3 would be nice. I'm still trying to learn this whole fish keeping thing. Not much like keeping scorpions.

If you want some interesting fish that grow very large try Snake Heads, now those are viscious, they will kill just to kill and they get over 3' long and to boot there a labryinth fish (air-breathers like bettas)so you dont even need that much airation or filtration..

I want a snakehead. I just need a large tank and somewhere to get it from

[quote="_scorpio_"]calum...dont all fish do that????[/quote

nope. most fish swim about, look for food, attack each other. pirahnas tend to just float about and do nothing.

is it even legal to get a snake head in the us as anything other than food, i watched a program where every1 was moaning because they had taken over there water

snakehead fish are illegal because some braindead idiot released a load of baby ones that they didnt have space for and one was caught (aparently) and the poofy govement declared that "it is a mutant demonic invasion that will destroy civilization because these fish eat people...."

lol i saw it on dicovery or nat geo wild or something like that, everyone freaked and decided to poison the water to kill the fish. and its not working

they are very mean looking fish though, i would stay away from them lol

from what I was told, fishhead were imported from Asia and introduced into our waters at some point. Now Florida and some other bording states have a big problem with them. My uncle said that it was actually illegal to put them back in the water if you catch one and its illegal to keep as a pet.