I had some red bellys years ago and didn't know what I was doing... You're talking 35+ years ago and I so wish I had someone like you back then. Thank you for the info.
When I was a kid, my dad had 8 red bellied piranha. The biggest thing I remember about them is they really were cowardly - if they didn't have a lot of places to hide, they would bash into things trying to get away by just looking at them. They would break aquarium heaters if they weren't secure. He would feed them beef heart and it would drive them crazy, it was a lot of fun to watch. Also, fun fact - piranhas are characins, which puts them in the same family as tetras. If you look closely at the face of say a neon tetra, they look like itty bitty tiny piranhas. And healthy tetras will frenzy just like full blown piranhas.
I’ve really been interested in watching more on your red bellies 🙌 thanks Kevin your the best. Stay awesome and wish you all the best and hope you have a great day bud 🙋♂️✌️
Kevin you always amaze me. The knowledge you have on so many different types of animals is incredible. It is so cool to see all these other things you breed and raise.
I had 6 Red Belly Piranhas back in 2013 but i only had them for 6 weeks before my area in Southern Alberta Canada got hit by a once in a 100 year flood and i lost everything i had. I'm now the proud keeper of a 3 year old Corn snake I've had since she was a baby.
I had 3 piranha years ago! I miss them so much!! They are so sweet if kept well fed. I love kookaburra as well. They are so inbred now I can’t find one. Love them though.
Pets are like kids, they will make liars out of you every chance they get!! I could see the very small fries, they were so darn cute!! I just love these guys. Your vast wealth of knowledge is always impressive and inspiring to me, I just love learning more about all of your animals. Thanks for the video, and love your kookaburra!!
I know the feeling of having a kookaburra go off and interrupt what you are trying to say. I even had one challenge my dog while we were on a walk. Fun birds, but pains in butt. Also HOW are you not losing a finger putting your hand in the tank?
Wow, they are beautiful. I haven't seen any videos on tank breeding and rearing piranhas on YT either that I can recall. Love Jeremy BTW. Great video!!
I was rather amazed for years I’ve found nothing in raising the babies. I’ve bred plenty of fish and rearing these is not like other fish. Basic fry rearing of other species is not like these!!!
Thank goodness for NH - Live Free and enjoy the Piranhas! I had 5 red bellies back in the day, it was tough in a 55 gallon tank even with an overpowered Fluval filter and constant water changes to keep ammonia down! Never bred them, but nursed one that got his eye bit off back to health. He stayed permanently black after that and a really bad a#% attitude then on! Thanks Kevin, nice switch up in the content!
i raisedRed Bellies for years and used homemade Plexiglass partitions i drilled yes rarely the babies found there way through the barriers. but that was the cost of doing business you are correct there isn’t alot of help on raising them but ironically by Accident i had Crayfish years ago that Spawned and then we raised ( BTW the Fish Supplier i shopped at. gave me 2 of them as a gift as he got them in large shipments ) and didn’t want them at that time i read what Britanica Encyclopedias. had on them Spawning mostly with them i seperated the Male who was much larger and i left Mama and the Babies alone for longer periods at a time one batch of eggs. yielded over 100 Crayfish one strange note was they actually became a little weirder after the birth my Female kept climbing out of the tank which wasn’t too big of a deal i put her back in and she was fine
Hi Kevin, how long has your tank been established? Such a cool project and lifecycle to learn about. I started a freshwater nano tank a month or so ago and getting it cycling properly is NOT easy. I'm looking for detailed advice, if you have a resource. Could you BubbleGum your turtle nursery sometime? 😁
That is so cool to see. My dad was given 5 as a present in CA right as they made them illegal to have. We fed them frozen goldfish, now after being educated by you and others, would that be considered the McDonald's diet for them?
I love these videos! Maybe this is what you need to get more people, teaching everyone about all the different animals you own or are interested in. I'm certainly learning from you.
Somehow I didn't expect to have anything except reptiles. I LOVE FISH AND BIRDS! I have aquariums at home! So fun to see one of my favorite UA-camrs also interested As far as advice goes, (and I'm sorry if you already said this, I have ADHD and I try my best to listen but sometimes my brain still blanks out so forgive me if I'm being redundant), If I remember right the fry can be very cannibalistic to each other, it's just their natural behavior. So I guess if you're trying to get a bigger survival rate, you'd have to separate each fry from each other as well. You could try separation screens in one tank with a fry in each to see if you have better luck... Again sorry if it's redundant info. Thank you so much for these videos they are the highlight of my day!
@@NewEnglandReptile Thank you for replying, I haven't heard too much about fish hormones, I can only find a paper on the adults possibly releasing breeding hormones. I hope you're able to find some good info from somebody who has a better insight into it! Have you asked aquarium/piranha reddit forums? You might find some info that way
Kevin, you have such an amazing knowledge of everything. I love hearing the kookaburra in the background. I was listening to the video and it made me run to the tv. Wow that is so cool to watch them eat. Hey also what you have shown me with the Snapping turtles, has really changed my opinion of them. I mean of course, I am not going to pull one in fishing and just think I can handle it but thank you for everything you teach us about!
How hard was it to get that kookaburra? Are their permits and restrictions? When I move to the woods of Tennessee, I'm definitely getting peacocks, and I'd love to have a Kookaburra, too. Two of the most unique calls in the bird world.
This topic really interested me when you mentioned it. I have 0 capability to raise fish, but this is super fascinating. It looks like they hide in the surface plants once they hit a certain size, but at what point do they need to be removed to prevent cannibalism? Or is it just the crowding problem? It’s so few species that self-regulate their population that that alone is super interesting.
I siphoned off the first of the three nests shortly after hatching and housed it separately. This turned out not to be a success. I cannot think of any other cause other than that this was too traumatic for the fish. I left the other two nests in the box. Since the interior consists of driftwood and (a lot of) Java moss, there are many hiding options. When the animals were about 9 to 10 mm in size, I put them aside in a container of 60 x 30 x 30 cm. This tank was also furnished with a lot of Java moss and had a water temperature of 26 to 27° C. I managed to carefully catch about 60 pieces with the help of a net.I initially gave Artemia (live) and Cyclops as food. The young, like their parents, are extremely shy. They mainly live on the bottom. After 4 weeks the largest ones are about 1.5 cm and are already starting to look like real mini Piranhas. They are silver colored and have a black spot on the root of the tail. Tubifex is no longer safe for them. After the remaining youngsters have also been caught, I turn out to be the proud owner of about 130 Piranha's. It's a tangle of life. During feeding, the fish throw themselves at the offer like real savages, as you sometimes see in a movie. It forced me to quickly find a new home for the boy. To my pleasure and surprise, this went fairly easily. I kept four for myself with the aim of breeding them and adding them to the others. It is now January 2001 and the little ones are now about 12 cm. Unlike the oldies, they have a bright red belly with silver gray on the flanks. The characteristic black spots of young piranhas are now disappearing.
Ive been able to Raise them Ur have always watched a large drop In numbers. Nothing to do with water parameters other than I think They release a stress hormone that kills off a great number. Good job!
@@NewEnglandReptile you know what you do. I bred them first time in 2008. I had fish , chamaeleon's and snakes. I followed you a long time. Currently no animals, fighting ALL cancer. I wish you the best , your a great person.
Amazing tank ! As a kid a had a huge tank of redbellys , along with an apartment full of every other kind of fish ecosystem I could manage 🤷🏻♂️ I loved my amazon tanks the most …. Iv also kept a few other species . I had a huge monster of a black perinea , he was kept alone 🤷🏻♂️ ahhh you know everything about these thing I could say . I love this stuff Kev ! My daily UA-cam fix wouldn’t be the same if I didn’t have your channel 🫡🦾
Seeing you with fish an knowing Brian B was not a fish pro is there any you guys learned animal wise from each other? You guys are my go to for information an inspiration in keeping.
He hasn't been active for a year or better, but there is a UA-camr who goes by the name of Fish Room Fever who kept multiple species of piranha and I'm pretty sure he was breeding the Red Bellies at one point. He moved to a beautiful piece of land, though, that has no internet service, unfortunately.
I Love your piranha videos! They are amazing i kept a group as well but never bred.They were a fun species to keep This makes me want to get back in the hobby lol but im still saving for a water monitor 😉 Thanks for the video Kev!!! ✌🏻
When they become fry on the 3rd day scoop half off to give them all the best chance. Put them in a plain 100 g tank no rocks or plants blood worms cichlid food shrimp. Water changes on 6th day
I’ve done all Of that. Literally. Does not work. Not remotely like other fish. I’ve put them in a 400 gallon tank tricked out and still majority die. This method works the best. K
@@devenlamar3900 bro the red devil dint even bother the gold fish. I have a bunch of cichlids and 3 other 4” Red Devils together in a 75 gallon and I just bought 2 jewels cichlids male/female and they been nipping my other cichlids tails so I took them out and put a hiding spot in my other tank where I got the 8’ cichlid and turtle and he watching them jewels like a hawk😂
The paranas are cute aqua monsters. I heard people will use baby paranas for pedicures, because they'll eat the dead skin off your feet. I've never tried it... But then I don't know many outside of myself that think even full grown paranas are cute.
Totally unrelated but in a previous video you showed molorus pimbura, Ceylonese hoof python, are you breeding them, and if so, are they for sale? Owned a female in the late 90's but had to part with her, was young in life. I really want to keep them again. Thank you:)
Interesting coincidence...... My Kribensis fry hatched yesterday. Boy did they get fooled by dreams of spring. It was 83 degrees at around 2:30 in the afternoon. By 8:00, the temperature had dropped to 25 degrees and it was snowing. This morning, It's 16 degrees. I want to be a tropical fish for a couple days.
I got 2 small red belly piranhas in a tank with 4 turtles 1 8” red devil cichlid and 2 medium goldfish. So far no problems I’ll remove them once I start seeing the goldfish tails being nipped.
Hi, i really would love to keep piranhas but i live in a very hard water area and i know that they require softer water. Ph in my area is 8+ would there be anyway to keep them without going down the RO route? Maybe adding large amounts of bogwood/mangrove root to the aquarium and i mean alot? Also just silver sand as the substrate with a few pebbles that don't alter ie make the water harder. Could this work? Would appreciate any advice regarding this. Thanks!
Hello NER crew, I have 5 Red Bellied Piranha. 1 yo, and now they stop eating since 1,5weeks ago. I give them frozen fish, sometimes live feeding. What happened with them?
years ago someone in my local area bred them. i never made contact with them, just their outlet. I think people are just still secretive with them and then the legalities in some areas. i tried but then my group started eating each other. hindsite saying my tank wasnt big enough
Siphon fry at free swimming stage the raise fry in a separate tank start with green water to feed fry work your way up the food chain with fry micro worms, vinegar eels so on. Problem is getting fry out of main tank.
They are definitely camera shy fish. Had piranha for year never breed them ... Seems like when they get to a silver peace dollar size 1 is always eaten
I have 3 females and 2 males in my tank but I think it's too small 80gal , they been showing signs of spawning ..I may need to get a bigger stock feeding tank .. fk a tank lol too expensive 😅 feed the babies live bloodworms?
Didn't know it was that hard to breed piranhas cause the 2 I had they were n a 55gal tank they had a cloud of babies around em and just fish food and then when I'd feed the adults goldfish or rosey barbs I'd see the lil ones eating the bits falling down from the adults never had an issue breeding fish always bowen fairly simple
Remember to pass on all your knowledge to the next generation🙏You seem to be so wise about so many different animals, that you would fill books🙂🙂
Kevin has written books!😃You should check them out!
@@Lovell93 i think 4 or more....
I had some red bellys years ago and didn't know what I was doing... You're talking 35+ years ago and I so wish I had someone like you back then. Thank you for the info.
Glad I could help! K
I'm fascinated by piranhas. Never owned them myself but the store I worked at sold them. Beautiful.
When I was a kid, my dad had 8 red bellied piranha. The biggest thing I remember about them is they really were cowardly - if they didn't have a lot of places to hide, they would bash into things trying to get away by just looking at them. They would break aquarium heaters if they weren't secure. He would feed them beef heart and it would drive them crazy, it was a lot of fun to watch. Also, fun fact - piranhas are characins, which puts them in the same family as tetras. If you look closely at the face of say a neon tetra, they look like itty bitty tiny piranhas. And healthy tetras will frenzy just like full blown piranhas.
Yes an overgrown Tera literally! K
I’ve really been interested in watching more on your red bellies 🙌 thanks Kevin your the best. Stay awesome and wish you all the best and hope you have a great day bud 🙋♂️✌️
Thank you! You too! K
Love that your showing more of your animals! Loving the bubblegum videos please keep them coming!
Animals love to make a liar out of people 🤣🤣...i kept thinking any minute the frenzy begins🤣... great vid👍
Yeah "oh my dog doesn't bite" has never stood to be a true testament atleast not in my expirience
I love the variety of your bubblegums! I had no idea about Red Bellies. Now I know! When you know better, you do better! Greatest appreciation 😊
LOL uh, oh, someone got the Kookooburra going!
Amazing stuff! I am more of a fish person, but I usually watch your videos for the medical stuff and behavioral insight. This is right up my alley!
I think your bird is looking for some attention Kevin. 😂😂
Pretty cool fish! They’re amazing! 😊
Kevin you always amaze me. The knowledge you have on so many different types of animals is incredible. It is so cool to see all these other things you breed and raise.
Very kind. Thank you. K
In my younger days,I had 4 Blacks and 5 Redbellies in a 150 gallon tank,only fed them live goldfish and night crawlers. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Did the blacks attack any others?
I love all these videos of different things you are doing
I never expected for them not to obliterate the food as soon as you put it in there lol 😂 would love to get a group of these one day! So interesting.
I had 6 Red Belly Piranhas back in 2013 but i only had them for 6 weeks before my area in Southern Alberta Canada got hit by a once in a 100 year flood and i lost everything i had. I'm now the proud keeper of a 3 year old Corn snake I've had since she was a baby.
I had 3 piranha years ago! I miss them so much!! They are so sweet if kept well fed.
I love kookaburra as well. They are so inbred now I can’t find one. Love them though.
My neighbor growing up had a red belly pirhana named Gums. So cool.
Such a cool place you have everything...
Pets are like kids, they will make liars out of you every chance they get!! I could see the very small fries, they were so darn cute!! I just love these guys. Your vast wealth of knowledge is always impressive and inspiring to me, I just love learning more about all of your animals. Thanks for the video, and love your kookaburra!!
Definately. 😂. Good job pets can't talk as well .......even more trouble.
I know the feeling of having a kookaburra go off and interrupt what you are trying to say. I even had one challenge my dog while we were on a walk. Fun birds, but pains in butt. Also HOW are you not losing a finger putting your hand in the tank?
I like Sid he's fun.
Wow, they are beautiful. I haven't seen any videos on tank breeding and rearing piranhas on YT either that I can recall. Love Jeremy BTW. Great video!!
I was rather amazed for years I’ve found nothing in raising the babies. I’ve bred plenty of fish and rearing these is not like other fish. Basic fry rearing of other species is not like these!!!
Another really interesting again. I wonder if they would put Willis in his place 😂
Thank goodness for NH - Live Free and enjoy the Piranhas! I had 5 red bellies back in the day, it was tough in a 55 gallon tank even with an overpowered Fluval filter and constant water changes to keep ammonia down! Never bred them, but nursed one that got his eye bit off back to health. He stayed permanently black after that and a really bad a#% attitude then on! Thanks Kevin, nice switch up in the content!
AWESOME setup!!
Beautiful tank😊❤
Very interesting, I am loving your videos, keep them coming!!!
My goodness Kevin, is there anything that you don't work with and/or know about, love it so much
i raisedRed Bellies for years and used homemade Plexiglass partitions i drilled yes rarely the babies found there way through the barriers. but that was the cost of doing business you are correct there isn’t alot of help on raising them but ironically by Accident i had Crayfish years ago that Spawned and then we raised ( BTW the Fish Supplier i shopped at. gave me 2 of them as a gift as he got them in large shipments ) and didn’t want them at that time i read what Britanica Encyclopedias. had on them Spawning mostly with them i seperated the Male who was much larger and i left Mama and the Babies alone for longer periods at a time one batch of eggs. yielded over 100 Crayfish one strange note was they actually became a little weirder after the birth my Female kept climbing out of the tank which wasn’t too big of a deal i put her back in and she was fine
We breed some colored crayfish here too. I like them quite a bit. K
You’re not wrong it’s hard to find info on keeping them in general so thank you cool uncle kev for sharing with us 😜
You bet! K
Beautiful fish
Hi Kevin, how long has your tank been established? Such a cool project and lifecycle to learn about. I started a freshwater nano tank a month or so ago and getting it cycling properly is NOT easy. I'm looking for detailed advice, if you have a resource. Could you BubbleGum your turtle nursery sometime? 😁
This tank
Running easy 5 years. I always suggest over filtering as that’s your tanks engine. K
Your knowledge of animals is cool as hell!! Stay strong and keep your head up Kevin!! Stay safe and have a nice day!!
That is so cool to see. My dad was given 5 as a present in CA right as they made them illegal to have. We fed them frozen goldfish, now after being educated by you and others, would that be considered the McDonald's diet for them?
Goldfish is not a good feeder item at all for many reasons. K
Would be great to see a vidoe tour of Nerd!
I would love to see a tour of your facility
Another animal that's terribly misunderstood, sick set up. Are those Exodon Paradoxus i seen there :)
Yes they are. K
I love these videos! Maybe this is what you need to get more people, teaching everyone about all the different animals you own or are interested in. I'm certainly learning from you.
Somehow I didn't expect to have anything except reptiles. I LOVE FISH AND BIRDS! I have aquariums at home! So fun to see one of my favorite UA-camrs also interested
As far as advice goes, (and I'm sorry if you already said this, I have ADHD and I try my best to listen but sometimes my brain still blanks out so forgive me if I'm being redundant), If I remember right the fry can be very cannibalistic to each other, it's just their natural behavior. So I guess if you're trying to get a bigger survival rate, you'd have to separate each fry from each other as well. You could try separation screens in one tank with a fry in each to see if you have better luck... Again sorry if it's redundant info. Thank you so much for these videos they are the highlight of my day!
It’s not cannibalism. Nothing like that. They release a stress hormone it appears. Nothing like other fish I’ve bred.
@@NewEnglandReptile Thank you for replying, I haven't heard too much about fish hormones, I can only find a paper on the adults possibly releasing breeding hormones. I hope you're able to find some good info from somebody who has a better insight into it! Have you asked aquarium/piranha reddit forums? You might find some info that way
Kevin, you have such an amazing knowledge of everything. I love hearing the kookaburra in the background. I was listening to the video and it made me run to the tv. Wow that is so cool to watch them eat. Hey also what you have shown me with the Snapping turtles, has really changed my opinion of them. I mean of course, I am not going to pull one in fishing and just think I can handle it but thank you for everything you teach us about!
Very cool video. Nobody else has shown this that I’ve seen. Enjoyed seeing the babies especially. Thanks Kevin! ❤
I am enjoying all these bubblegum videos of yours. I think your kookaburra wanted some attention.
I love the variety and the free-flow style of these videos!
U can see lil fry swimming around so some of them eggs are hatching or a different nest did that's cool
O now u say u see them 🤣 that's cool
How hard was it to get that kookaburra? Are their permits and restrictions? When I move to the woods of Tennessee, I'm definitely getting peacocks, and I'd love to have a Kookaburra, too. Two of the most unique calls in the bird world.
Love this video Kevin! 🎉
This topic really interested me when you mentioned it. I have 0 capability to raise fish, but this is super fascinating. It looks like they hide in the surface plants once they hit a certain size, but at what point do they need to be removed to prevent cannibalism? Or is it just the crowding problem? It’s so few species that self-regulate their population that that alone is super interesting.
The ones in the plants will need to go as the new ones become free swimming otherwise many will be eaten.
Always wanted to give reds a try. Those are some healthy looking fish.
Fish aren’t my thing, but I appreciate the class Mr. Kevin! Thank you for it
Awesome video I would love to a fish tour or store tour.
I siphoned off the first of the three nests shortly after hatching and housed it separately. This turned out not to be a success. I cannot think of any other cause other than that this was too traumatic for the fish. I left the other two nests in the box. Since the interior consists of driftwood and (a lot of) Java moss, there are many hiding options.
When the animals were about 9 to 10 mm in size, I put them aside in a container of 60 x 30 x 30 cm. This tank was also furnished with a lot of Java moss and had a water temperature of 26 to 27° C. I managed to carefully catch about 60 pieces with the help of a net.I initially gave Artemia (live) and Cyclops as food. The young, like their parents, are extremely shy. They mainly live on the bottom. After 4 weeks the largest ones are about 1.5 cm and are already starting to look like real mini Piranhas. They are silver colored and have a black spot on the root of the tail. Tubifex is no longer safe for them.
After the remaining youngsters have also been caught, I turn out to be the proud owner of about 130 Piranha's. It's a tangle of life. During feeding, the fish throw themselves at the offer like real savages, as you sometimes see in a movie. It forced me to quickly find a new home for the boy. To my pleasure and surprise, this went fairly easily. I kept four for myself with the aim of breeding them and adding them to the others. It is now January 2001 and the little ones are now about 12 cm. Unlike the oldies, they have a bright red belly with silver gray on the flanks. The characteristic black spots of young piranhas are now disappearing.
Ive been able to
Raise them
Ur have always watched a large drop
In numbers. Nothing to do with water parameters other than I think
They release a stress hormone that kills off a great number. Good job!
@@NewEnglandReptile you know what you do. I bred them first time in 2008. I had fish , chamaeleon's and snakes. I followed you a long time. Currently no animals, fighting ALL cancer. I wish you the best , your a great person.
Amazing tank ! As a kid a had a huge tank of redbellys , along with an apartment full of every other kind of fish ecosystem I could manage 🤷🏻♂️ I loved my amazon tanks the most …. Iv also kept a few other species . I had a huge monster of a black perinea , he was kept alone 🤷🏻♂️ ahhh you know everything about these thing I could say . I love this stuff Kev ! My daily UA-cam fix wouldn’t be the same if I didn’t have your channel 🫡🦾
The African Cichlids are pretty cool too!!
Ohhh fun! I love the variety at times.
This is fascinating to me! Loving these videos
Seeing you with fish an knowing Brian B was not a fish pro is there any you guys learned animal wise from each other? You guys are my go to for information an inspiration in keeping.
I’m quite well versed on fish too as I started with fish. Brian would often ask me for advice etc and I’d just whine about other things back. K
That was very interesting, thanks!
More of this stuff please. 😊
Greetings from Germany 🙋🏼♀️🇩🇪
Would love to see more fish videos
He hasn't been active for a year or better, but there is a UA-camr who goes by the name of Fish Room Fever who kept multiple species of piranha and I'm pretty sure he was breeding the Red Bellies at one point. He moved to a beautiful piece of land, though, that has no internet service, unfortunately.
I Love your piranha videos! They are amazing i kept a group as well but never bred.They were a fun species to keep This makes me want to get back in the hobby lol but im still saving for a water monitor 😉 Thanks for the video Kev!!! ✌🏻
Love these types of videos.. **Bubblegum Videos for the win**
Kookaburras make me laugh….wouldn’t want one though. Think that noise would get old quickly 😂
When they become fry on the 3rd day scoop half off to give them all the best chance. Put them in a plain 100 g tank no rocks or plants blood worms cichlid food shrimp. Water changes on 6th day
I’ve done all
Of that. Literally. Does not work. Not remotely like other fish. I’ve put them in a 400 gallon tank tricked out and still majority die. This method works the best. K
I got 2 red belly flys with 4 turtles and a 8” red devil and 2 medium goldfish
@dracoak8630 wow surprised your red devils haven't killed the goldfish
@@devenlamar3900 bro the red devil dint even bother the gold fish. I have a bunch of cichlids and 3 other 4” Red Devils together in a 75 gallon and I just bought 2 jewels cichlids male/female and they been nipping my other cichlids tails so I took them out and put a hiding spot in my other tank where I got the 8’ cichlid and turtle and he watching them jewels like a hawk😂
@@devenlamar3900 he ain’t gonna be able to get them because they got hiding spots and he to big to fit in any of them
The paranas are cute aqua monsters. I heard people will use baby paranas for pedicures, because they'll eat the dead skin off your feet. I've never tried it... But then I don't know many outside of myself that think even full grown paranas are cute.
The bird goes:
🐒🐒🐒
Thank You for another great video!
Another super cool video Kev! I've got a 125g sitting around empty. I may have to fix that.
strange to think of "pirhana" and "cowards" in the same sentence, lol
Thank you for this really interesting video
What else do you like to raise? Snakes, turtles, lizards, butterflies and
piranhas as these are all great videos😊
is this zoo creatures? i've been to this place before! i absolutely love visiting this place
Great video, but in all of this, where is Donny ?
Totally unrelated but in a previous video you showed molorus pimbura, Ceylonese hoof python, are you breeding them, and if so, are they for sale? Owned a female in the late 90's but had to part with her, was young in life. I really want to keep them again. Thank you:)
Interesting coincidence...... My Kribensis fry hatched yesterday. Boy did they get fooled by dreams of spring. It was 83 degrees at around 2:30 in the afternoon. By 8:00, the temperature had dropped to 25 degrees and it was snowing. This morning, It's 16 degrees. I want to be a tropical fish for a couple days.
Curious do you ever feed your kookaburra snakes? their fav food
Love these videos
Thanks! It would be great idea if you could make a scripted tutorial how to breed piranhas step by step with some FAQ's and troubleshoot
I got 2 small red belly piranhas in a tank with 4 turtles 1 8” red devil cichlid and 2 medium goldfish. So far no problems I’ll remove them once I start seeing the goldfish tails being nipped.
awesome love these videos
Hi, i really would love to keep piranhas but i live in a very hard water area and i know that they require softer water. Ph in my area is 8+ would there be anyway to keep them without going down the RO route? Maybe adding large amounts of bogwood/mangrove root to the aquarium and i mean alot? Also just silver sand as the substrate with a few pebbles that don't alter ie make the water harder. Could this work? Would appreciate any advice regarding this. Thanks!
There was a good article in Amazonas magazine a couple of years ago about a german breeder.
Hello NER crew, I have 5 Red Bellied Piranha. 1 yo, and now they stop eating since 1,5weeks ago. I give them frozen fish, sometimes live feeding. What happened with them?
Kuuk kuuuk i like turtles back to parana 🤣😂
Did you name Jeremy after Jeremy your former manager at NERD?
I miss my Piranhas..Ben and Jerry. Raised them from dime sized but they outgrew my 50gal so I had to rehome them to someone with a bigger tank :')
if you have more hints on sexing them pls share!
years ago someone in my local area bred them. i never made contact with them, just their outlet. I think people are just still secretive with them and then the legalities in some areas. i tried but then my group started eating each other. hindsite saying my tank wasnt big enough
Siphon fry at free swimming stage the raise fry in a separate tank start with green water to feed fry work your way up the food chain with fry micro worms, vinegar eels so on. Problem is getting fry out of main tank.
They are definitely camera shy fish. Had piranha for year never breed them ... Seems like when they get to a silver peace dollar size 1 is always eaten
Its illegal for me to have them😢.
Will the baby try to eat off what the adult fish eat. Do the grown fish eat they’re fry?
Where did you get that tank from
Can you share the name of the plant? and does that help remove the odor or fishy smell due to live feeding? thanks
I have 3 females and 2 males in my tank but I think it's too small 80gal , they been showing signs of spawning ..I may need to get a bigger stock feeding tank .. fk a tank lol too expensive 😅 feed the babies live bloodworms?
Try raising the babies in raceways.
Didn't know it was that hard to breed piranhas cause the 2 I had they were n a 55gal tank they had a cloud of babies around em and just fish food and then when I'd feed the adults goldfish or rosey barbs I'd see the lil ones eating the bits falling down from the adults never had an issue breeding fish always bowen fairly simple
How old are those babies at the end of the videos?
Are you going to sell the babies?
Kevins something ❤️
I thought it was against the law to have red bellied Pirana