Fish based meat : As fish are a natural part of the Piranhas diet, any fish based meat you might be reasonably entitled to think, would be a good meal for your fish. Contains a lot of the nutrients your Piranha will need. Meat based : Both beef and beefheart are recommended for Piranha. Of the two, the fish based meats are a better option as they are more natural for a Piranha meal.
As the Piranha will naturally eat plant matter, especially as the dry season encroaches, part of your Piranhas diet ought to contain something similar. Therefore, occasionally, offer your Piranha a variety of vegetables. Almost all can be good depending upon what is available to you but raw zucchini, spinach, or potato are said to be good.
Try to get vegetables not doused in pesticides, so organic based vegetables are better. Additionally carrots or peas can be used but if the Piranha do not eat them, or at least all of them, they may need removing from the tank after a few hours. Vegetables will decay and rot. Fruits are considered part of a Piranhas natural diet. So why not dice up an apple, pear or peach. Place them in the freezer to kill off any bugs and see if your Piranha appreciate your efforts. Mainly centering around either cruelty or health.
As some live foods are harmless and barely sentient, then these arguments are an individual choice. It should be stressed, that there is no benefit to your Piranha, feeding them live food as opposed to frozen. You can keep Piranha without ever having to drop live food in the tank. In general though a lot of Piranha owners seem to agree that feeding your fish a goldfish brings unnecessary risk to your pets. The same nutritional risk can be gained from frozen food.
Fish or shrimp : Many Piranha owners with the desire to feed their fish with live food keep a feeder tank with either goldfish or guppies. If you must feed you Piranha live fish, make sure they are healthy, and free from typical diseases, like Ich. There is often little nutritional value in goldfish. Rodents : Slightly more unusual, but not unknown is the propensity to feed your Piranha, either mice or other rodents.
This would certainly be an unusual meal for a Piranha, and not at all typical. Remember, rodents have teeth and claws, so it is just possible that in the melee, your Piranha could get injured, and rodent fur is not typical for the digestive system of a Piranha. It can be done, but their are better choices.
Insects : Almost all of the insects designed for feeding reptiles can be used with Piranha. Larvae of various bugs can also be eaten by Piranha. More: Piranha vs Pacu. Do you often wonder why Piranhas eat so fast? There are several reasons why Piranhas can strip large animals like a cow, down to pieces. They just bite and snap the jaws while filling their bodies with chunks of food. Another reason why Piranhas at so fast is because they normally attack large animals in groups.
With an average school size of 20, these fishes are efficient team-eaters. They normally indulge in an eating frenzy they will rotate continuously with one piranha taking a bite and leaving the way for another to eat. Piranhas are known to eat their food very fast. They can attack any fish smaller than their sizes. They are known to bite at a maximum force of 72 pounds, which is three times their body weight.
Piranhas prey on both living and dead animals. They are predominantly Carnivorous in nature. When Piranhas are very hungry, they go for the eyes and tails of their prey.
Such type of attack is very useful for Piranhas because it demobilizes the prey. Piranhas eat their food quickly, even when they are not hungry.
They consume food by swallowing it immediately even though they have the strongest teeth to break food into pieces. Piranhas can live for between 4 and 15 years.
While some of them grow up to 2 inches, they can grow as much as 8 inches in length when fully matured. The Juveniles are known to be very fond of playing with aquatic plants. They also enjoy sandy substrates. Make sure the bottom is filled with sufficient sand and few rocks, in addition to water plants. Some driftwood can offer some place of rest for the adults.
One may also ask, how much does a piranha eat in a day? A typical piranha diet consists of insects, fish, crustaceans, worms, carrion, seeds and other plant material. A red-bellied piranha Pygocentrus nattereri , for example, eats about 2. In short, anecdotal evidence suggests they can survive without food for around 2 months. Occasionally, people have reported up to 3 months but most suggest around 8 weeks. Give your piranhas processed, frozen, and freeze dried foods including fish, crabs, prawns, rainworms and shed snakeskin.
Occasionally feed them green vegetables such as raw zucchini, spinach, or potato. Avoid giving piranhas dry market feed , flakes or granules. Avoid feeding piranhas live animals. Juvenile and subadult Piranha should be fed 2 to 4 times a day every day. Adult Piranhas should be fed 1 to 2 times every other day. What do you feed red belly piranhas? In a tank, red-bellied piranha feeds on protein-containing feed — fish, fish fillet, frozen prawns, calamari meat, heart, rain-worms, and shed snakeskins, sometimes even live mice.
You have to be careful when feeding piranhas since the fish may bite your hand. The juveniles should be fed every day, while adults every second day or every day as well.
But to prevent obesity, you should arrange for them one or two fasting days a week. When giving large pieces of food, you should hang them in a wire.
When putting it in a tank, at first, the whole school scatter in all directions. Some time later, usually, the smallest species decides to swim closer to the food and bite it. Quite often, it is mentioned that the fish can almost cut through a steel wire. When eating its prey, piranha slices with its razor-sharp teeth all the soft tissues and normally leaves the skeleton untouched.
However, when getting excited, it can cut a large fish in halves. They eat quickly and messy, trying to eat as much as possible for future use. Small pieces of food fallen on the tank bottom are usually ignored. Thus, it is recommended to give them food in pieces that they can swallow at once without tearing them. The question if piranha can live with other fishes is one of the most controversial. Keeping one fish in a tank may be stressful for it, and loud noises will make it swim away and hide.
You can see a clear hierarchy in the school when the strongest species haunts the others and gets the best and tastiest food pieces. Sometimes they can get on well in one tank with their close relatives such as pacu , silver dollar. However, conflicts are still possible here. They are perfect red-bellied piranha tank mates since they inhabit bottom water layers and they are protected from attack with bone planes on their body.
You may also try some other fishes as piranhas tank mates, but you never know…. Visually you may see the difference only due to continuous observations of the fish behavior, especially during the spawning period. The abdomen shape is a more reliable sign in this case. The front view of the male abdomen is V-shaped, while the female one is U-shaped. Fish start to breed quite easily at 18 months, being 6 in 15 cm long. In some cases, the male looks darker colored than the female, which also has a yellowish abdomen.
The minimal requirement is clean and warm water, sufficient tank capacity, plus a diversified diet. After the first spawning, the following ones usually occur about once or twice a month. Piranhas maintain their reproductive ability for quite a long time. Changes in their coloring and some tank environment changes may mean that the spawning is about to start.
During this period, their coloring gets darker and becomes almost black. Piranhas can breed in a community tank as well as in a separate spawning tank. In the latter case, a tank of 40 gallons capacity should be used 60 gallons is even better. The water is purified using a powerful external filter, and some small pebbles are put on the tank bottom as a substrate.
The beginning of the spawning period is easily seen since the fishes start making a nest, their coloring becomes darker, and they leave their school. However, some aquarists decrease the water level first and then pour some fresh water for the same purpose.
The spawning occurs in the open space. During the spawning period, the male fish makes the nest by removing gravel from the tank bottom, and the female fish is swimming nearby at the same time. After finishing with the nest, the male fish chases the female one till they reach the area which he has cleaned from pebbles. They start swimming in circles, and the female fish lays the eggs, the piranha male fertilizes them.
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