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victor1061
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 Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 11:49 pm Post subject: My Amazing Predator Tank. |
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My Amazing Predator Fish Tank 120 gallon 5"x2"x2":
2 Oscars
2 Green Terrors
2 Red Zebra
3 Red belly pacu
All healthy and hungry lol.
. They are the hungriest creatures i have ever seen in my life. 
Sorry about the picture quality were taken from my 2mp phone camera. |
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| Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 11:09 am Post subject: Re: My Amazing Predator Tank. |
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Very nice collection !!  |
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| Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 11:21 am Post subject: Re: My Amazing Predator Tank. |
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Is that a piranha on your 2nd tank.. the black color fish with red belly?
Super hungry collection!  |
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| Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 1:13 pm Post subject: Re: My Amazing Predator Tank. |
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Hey man, neat collection. Do post a FTS.
There is no such thing as a red belly Pacu. Theres only the Red Belly Piranha , or The Pacu. Pacus in their younger years mimic the looks of adult piranhas , as the Pacu grow, they become black on the bottom and silver on the top. Also, they are hearty herbivores not carnivores. Try giving them carrots or peas. Although they will eat carnivore stuff, but it wont do them much good. BTW, young piranha look like silver dollars , only smaller and tapered on the front and with faint black dots.
And I am not sure whether that is a Red Zebra Mabuna. IIRC, there is no fish called Mabuna, there are Mbunas from the rift valley, but your fish looks to me like a south american. The LFS give them really weird names 
Best of luck!
Do lots of research before buying from LFS, they are not particularly known for being correct.  |
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| Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 1:54 pm Post subject: Re: My Amazing Predator Tank. |
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Do you have any plans to upgrade to a bigger tank in the near future?
If not, get rid of those "red bellied" Pacus as soon as possible.They are potential monsters fit for public aquaria and you have got three of them! |
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victor1061
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| Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 11:10 pm Post subject: Re: My Amazing Predator Tank. |
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Thanks for the lovely comments  . Well I was planning to make it an all amazon biotope, but I'm waiting to get the right amount of time from my work for the same. And the Red bellied fish in the picture is a RB pacu which i brought thinking it to be a piranha. They look the same when they are small. But now the proper structure of the jaws tells it all. And the yellow cichlid is a lake mabuna variety called Red Zebra commonly, which i brought from my LFS which he said was a Firemouth, I know it sounds ridiculous but i was "underknowledged" that time.LOL |
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| Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 1:37 am Post subject: Re: My Amazing Predator Tank. |
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| victor1061 wrote (View Post):
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Thanks for the lovely comments . Well I was planning to make it an all amazon biotope, but I'm waiting to get the right amount of time from my work for the same. And the Red bellied fish in the picture is a RB pacu which i brought thinking it to be a piranha. They look the same when they are small. But now the proper structure of the jaws tells it all. And the yellow cichlid is a lake mabuna variety called Red Zebra commonly, which i brought from my LFS which he said was a Firemouth, I know it sounds ridiculous but i was "underknowledged" that time.LOL
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That's not a mbuna... Red zebra cichlid doesn't look like that... Possibly a red devil or some sort of flowerhorn? |
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victor1061
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| Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2012 12:47 am Post subject: Re: My Amazing Predator Tank. |
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| Wow thats right i had no idea it was the red devil now that it has grown it has a small lump formation on its head. My LFS sold it to me saying its a firemouth. Now i get what it really is. Thanks guys |
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