New pets!

[Caitlin]

These are my new babies. They are juvenile red belly piranhas, only a couple months old I think. They will get up to a foot long.

My boyfriend treats them like children, I think he likes them more than he likes me. :Big Laugh

 

[Tim Aucoin]

I hope he doesn't hand feed them! :ROFLMAO:
Or ask you to give him a hand! :ROFLMAO:

 

[signage]

Tim right now that may be alright to do!

But not when they get to be a foot long!

 

[John Butto]

Sounds like the start of an Alfred Hitchcock movie when the boyfriend turns up missing.

 

[Caitlin]

:ROFLMAO:

Yeah, right now they are a little timid. But full grown they can take off a finger pretty easily. He is in charge of feeding them, cleaning the tank, etc. That was the deal with getting them

 

[WildWestDesigns]

He is in charge of feeding them, cleaning the tank, etc. That was the deal with getting them

Uh huh. That's how it always starts anyway.

 

[SignManiac]

North Atlantic blue fish (large mackerel) are nothing but overgrown piranhas. I was wind surfing in the ocean late in the fall and about a half mile off the beach, before I realized what was happening, I sailed directly over a huge school of them, about a hundred yards long and the same across. They were in a feeding frenzy following a school of bait fish. The water was boiling and was red from the blood. These fish have razor sharp teeth and they were gnashing at anything that moved. My biggest fear was falling off the board in the middle of this feeding frenzy. Luckily I got pass them and I was safe, but man was my heart pounding. They would have picked my flesh off down to the bone. Have to admit, this was one of the few times I was really scared!

Good luck with the pets!

 

[Marlene]

just don't pet the "babies"!

 

[Gino]

So, what do you feed flesh/meat eating fish ?? Neighborhood dogs, little brats or competition ??

 

[Caitlin]

Yikes! That sounds scary. I've heard of schools killing injured cows who wandered into the river in South America and places where they live in the wild.

Mine don't have names yet, we have to give it some more thought. They are actually very skittish and need lots of places to hide. When we first let them go, they sat squashed together in the rocks for quite a while before they even started to look around. But that being said, one of our cycling tetras suspiciously vanished yesterday... supposedly everything changes when they get hungry. :Big Laugh

 

[Caitlin]

:ROFLMAO: The guy at the pet store suggested small yappy dogs.

We feed them frozen bloodworm cubes, but they also like shrimp pellets, or I guess live tank companions. It's also good to give them things like raw potato and zucchini sometimes. I guess some people give them pieces of animal heart and the like but I can't imagine wanting to do that, and red meat makes them more aggressive.

 

[John Butto]

what they think

eh

 

[SignManiac]

Name one of them Hannibel