PICS wanted!

Subject: PICS wanted! Sat Nov 01, 2008 11:26 am

Hey all I have a species profile that I need pics for! Do you or any of your friends have pics of a Red Belly Piranha? IF SO PLEASE PM ME!

Subject: Re: PICS wanted! Sat Nov 01, 2008 3:03 pm

Mike I am working on getting some!

The Turtle Whisperer Posts : 1930

If you want some for comparison I can take some of the Red Bellied Pacus I have. If you're really desperate last I was there the fish store by me has Piranha.

Subject: Re: PICS wanted! Sat Nov 01, 2008 5:42 pm

Sorry, they're illegal down here.

Mark

Member Posts : 15

here you go mike not the best im sorry

heres an adult
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heres a few juvs
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Subject: Re: PICS wanted! Sat Nov 01, 2008 7:33 pm

NICE Thanks Nano! Thank you paul and rick for your help! There illegal here in the great state of maine too mark but I can drive 45 min to New Hampshire and get as many as I want. I'll have to post this when I get home from work!

Subject: Re: PICS wanted! Sat Nov 01, 2008 8:33 pm

I've kept a few in the past, when I managed a couple of pet shops back in the 80s. Three different times a Red Belly or two would come in with a shipment of wild caught small silver dollars. Usually within a day or two, all of the silver dollars would have nipped fins, and it was real easy to spot the impostor(s). Wink

I would take them home, because I refused to destroy a fish because of a wholesaler's mistake.

Mark

The Turtle Whisperer Posts : 1930

Having never kept piranha I never knew just how similar the pacus look to them. The jaw line is slightly different but otherwise you'd have a hard time telling them apart.

Subject: Re: PICS wanted! Sun Nov 02, 2008 2:38 pm

Your right. Pacu have more of a rounder nose than RBP's. The other way you can tell a RBP from a pacu is RBP get to be about 12" and Pacus can grow to the size of a truck tire Shocked

Mark I dont know if your state does it but I can get any fish thats on the band list as long as I have a Import and Possession permit. For $50 I think its worth it.

Subject: Re: PICS wanted! Sat Nov 29, 2008 11:57 pm

I've got some of O's, Tiger,Red.Albino,and long fin albino,pm me and I'll send some.

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