Imagine a fish row full of razor-sharp teeth.
absolutely mean-tempered,
Hunts and packs and will rip anything apart that you put in the aquarium. Oh
And it only gets to be about this size. Let me show you the new fish.
The XO Don specifically the XO don paradoxes its common name the buck-toothed tetra.
Don't let the name tetra can fool confuse. You thinking that these are a peaceful.
Community fish like most Petrus are to give you a visual example to change your mind.
Let me show you what happens when we drop some food in this tank. That is meaty in nature.
Wasn't that insane they absolutely.
Swarm it and tear it apart any type of meat. I put in this tank. They'll eat it.
These guys were eating day one now,
These guys are from South America as a lot of chair scens actually are and they're actually in the family with piranhas.
Piranhas being one of my first fish. It was technically the first fish I ever kept in the hobby about 16 years ago,
During my time with piranhas. I realized that they're nothing.
What they were all built up to be they're not vicious. They're they were rather boring,
Skittish shy they had teeth of course, but it just they're just not what you think.
They are in the movies if I were to take all the rumors about piranhas and instill it into one fish,
It would be the XO Don these guys are nasty mouth full of teeth. They'll attack anything and this is a tank.
I am never going to put my hands in,
Unless of course you guys challenge me to all of that mighty nature into a small fish.
These guys only get to about three inches. Some of them seemingly are full-grown at this point. Others have a ways to go,
However, they can get up to about five inches.
That's probably going to be doubtful and the home aquarium, but they have been seen at rather large sizes,
On the topic of being seen this is my first time ever seeing these guys in person.
You see like I said when I was keeping piranhas,
during your research of a,
Specific fish will come about it will come across a ton of other fish that are related to the fish. You're.
Interested in and they might pique your interest,
That was these guys for me.
I absolutely fell in love with them and had to immediately have them could never find them though,
Not only are these a seasonal and difficult to find fish.
They can be rather expensive as well ranging from eight to twenty dollars
Sometimes a little more sometimes a little less depending on where you live in the world, but I could never find them
however, I seen them recently and I absolutely
Had to have them I got them all
45 of them which is OK in 120 gallon aquarium
With the sub system that I have on it increases the water volume and can handle this bio load
Absolute ease now being introduced to these guides from the Piranha world. I was used to piranhas having a bow
I kept red-bellied piranhas which had a little bit of red on the belly
But the rest of the body was silver and that was pretty much it
So to mike delight when I seen these guys in pitchers
I realized hey
We could have some really colorful predators like the piranhas in a much smaller size and put them in much smaller aquariums
Just look at their appearance though. Their body is somewhat green on top
more of a silvery iridescent throughout the rest very
Dark deep black dots on the base of their tail as well as the midsection and that is surrounded by an iridescent yellowish orange
their dorsal and tail fins are also
Adorned with a bit of that coloration as well and their jaw line is just really incredible. I
Love it, whenever you see a fish like this reminds me of like a little Bulldog or something
It just I just have an immediate respect for what might be in that mouth
it just looks like
They got a bite on them and boy do these guys do now an ex Adhan tank in
my opinion is probably best as a species only tank where you keep only one species of
Fish I find that they display better. They act more natural and of course with these guys with larger numbers
You get that frenzy
When they're feeding, which is just darn cool
I've really enjoyed doing feeding them some will argue that you should you can keep 3 to 5 in an aquarium with others
But again, these are a mean fish. They're not going to be friendly to other fish in most cases
They can go after other fish
They can kill each other the more the merrier type of deal with these guys
But really they don't need a massive aquarium if you did go with a you know, 5 to like 7
I would go probably minimum 10 just so you can actually enjoy them in something like a
30 gallon tank or you know, maybe a 55 gallon tank and go me something along those lines
but for decor
you're probably gonna want to go bare bottom just because these guys are a predator eating a lot of meaty items water quality will be
Difficult to combat they interact at nothing with the substrate at all
So not having a substrate it's not going to hurt
It's going to increase water quality and make maintenance a heck of a lot easier for
De coeur. It's really up to you as you can. See these guys are not shy at all
We've got bright lights cameras and I'm over here waving around these guys don't care at all. These are an extremely confident and outgoing fish
So you could have a completely bear aquarium
But obviously you might want something a little more visually appealing so I had it a couple of vlogs. This is just manzanita wood branches
Just to add as visual blocks being so many
I don't want anyone to be picked off because as soon as one is weakened
They'll probably kill it just like a lot of Pradas do sometimes I do notice that there are some
There's a hierarchy of being established
There's a larger the biggest one in here is kind of bossing everybody around but because of the numbers they're able to get out of
The way and defuse that aggression so no real problems just yet
But again only been a few days but these guys are definitely like nano
Monsters only staying so small yet being so aggressive and so capable of ripping something apart
they definitely need to get a little bit more respect than your average tetra tank would and
I was really excited to introduce you
many of you guys
To this fish because I know a lot of you will never have heard of it typically because it's not all that common
I cannot stop looking at their teeth. Wondering what I can feed them next. Anyways, guys
I hope he's enjoyed these fish. I've never planned on getting them
They were never in the plans as I never thought I would find them. Although I'll admit that
I did want to have an EXO dog tank out here didn't mean I was going to be able to find them
But so I bought these as soon as I seen them and they became the secret fish
I hope they didn't disappoint you guys
I don't think they will
and if they do I
Actually went fish shopping lately and got some other fish or some more tanks and I think you guys are gonna love them
So if you're not subscribed to this channel yet you want to see more on this tank and watch it develop as well as see
Some of new fish and other things that I'm working on make sure that you're subscribed if you're not already
All right, so I'm back here at my local fish store one fish two fish in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
He's got some fish for me, but he also told me got a bunch of new fish
Which you guys know could be potentially dangerous for me. So I'll probably get a lot more than I'm here for