today we're gonna find out what happened when we added in the small piranha into the 700 gallon
with a much larger piranha absolute carnage today we're going to add the small piranha to the big
piranha aquarium and you might be asking yourself how is it possible that you can add uh a bunch
of small fish to a big fish tank and this is one of the things i'd like to cover and we've talked
about this before when adding fish or a group of fish to a new group of fish one of the things that
i like to do is feed them first and then add them as a group adding a group of piranha to another
group of prawn is going to be incredibly difficult however we are faced with another issue these guys
are nowhere as close to the size of these guys in terms of mass these ones here are probably double
the size of the ones you just saw but we have a few things going for us first and foremost
obviously they're the same species second of all they're becoming closer and closer in appearance
to the other group there's about a dozen in here now yeah now some piranha will eat the others
they'll eat the weakest regardless of how much you feed them is just their instinct these ones here
are likely sub adults although they mostly still have their spawning amongst them
we also have an aquarium that is 700 gallons in size we also have a tremendous amount of lust lush
vegetation those are all real plants the only thing i got to make sure i got to do first is feed
them make sure these guys are well fed and add the little guys all at the same time so a single fish
cannot be singled out a nice little handful get you some lights here of the do-it-yourself food
i've shown you guys how to make before this should do them over we're also going to feed the babies
because they might not eat in this tank for a day or two now if i were to add the babies
or the smaller piranha into this tank right now they would probably do this to the food
they would single one out and eat it then they'd single another one out and eat it and
single another one out and eat it now prawn are typically opportunistic feeders they do
generally don't go after live fish but if they are hungry they will go after something that is worth
going after it's got to be big enough i mean obviously there's a ton of tetras in here
it doesn't look like a lot now but they're all spread throughout the tank every time i feed
they kind of scatter i'm a little worried about the tetras with the smaller guys these guys uh
the red-eyed tetras are technically small enough to be a curious morsels
for the smaller guys but i i think ultimately and honestly everything's going to be fine
look at you little one thinks it's a piranha i'm gonna let them finish this up and we'll feed
the babies probably shouldn't call them babies they're just juveniles juveniles and probably
not even sub-adults but we'll have about 30 peron in that 700 gallon we're absolute fools if we
think we don't get a pair out of that or we don't see some absolutely fascinating behavior it's not
very common you see a planted 700 gallon aquarium in a hobbyist a tank with piranha
in it because a lot of times you've been in the hobby long enough piranhas are a waste of time
i don't think so anymore my opinion has changed absolutely and entirely i think that piranha can
be an incredibly rewarding fish to keep in the home aquarium so long as with the right aquascape
the right layout which is essentially the same as aquascape
they can be absolutely fascinating this tank is pretty cool on its own though isn't it
no plants no nothing just some big boulders and some sand and that's it well some
some very fine grain gravel multi-colored i think they're going to do absolutely fantastic in that
tank i'm likely going to have to scoop them and put them in a bucket i think that's that's how
i'm going to transport them i'm going to give them about 20 minutes to eat and they'll be fine
also i didn't shave today i know i look like trash my tanks are dope though
i think they're going to do just fine in the new tank with the bigger guys
i think uh being a plant to tank with so many places for them to hide
and find refuge they'll be just fine will we lose a couple you know in a pack of piranha potentially
keep them well fed they'll be okay i know i don't have the the 16 that i started with though i think
i might only have 14 right now which is fine i'll get a final count once they're in the bucket but
it's not that piranha you know eat each other but being almost entirely a wild
caught fish some of them do have and come in with internal parasites and may not survive the trip
and the other ones just kind of polish them off i've got one two three four five in the bucket
and one two three four five six seven in there that i can see
i can't see behind the rocks i'm gonna have to use my fingers
usually just pushing with uh water is enough to get a fish to scoot out
they're piranha they get upset they will eat me one two three four five six seven eight nine ten
there's a dozen yeah way bigger in a bucket than they are in the tank aren't they
yeah i think they're gonna be just fine but time will tell let's add them so what i'm thinking
is i put the whole bucket in the piranha are gonna get scared of the bucket and i'm going to
kind of pour them into the corner here let them do their own thing move a few things out of the
way i don't have to acclimate them everything out here matches every aquarium is the same all right
i don't want to pour them in i'm going to fill the bucket in scare
off the big ones that are over there now and let them swim out
like so then hopefully grab the camera fast enough to be able to show you if anything
actually ends up happening so they're going over there come on joey yeah see they're going
right back where i thought they might right back behind the background into the plants
i got to take this out of here um yeah the other product since they've already eaten
they're not ready they're not really on high alert like
hey there's something new in the tank that i'm that i might want to eat i could taste something
but we'll see what happens long term here in this aquarium morning today we're going
to find out what happened when we added in the small piranha into the 700 gallon with a much
larger piranha many of you guys thought this was only going to end in one way oh no
absolute carnage did they eat the tetras are the little ones there of course i'm joking
everything's fine it's absolutely awesome absolutely phenomenal okay i'll show you
tetras are all still there tank is a little cloudy i think they stirred up the substrate a little bit
but the pack of piranha is doing let me fix this camera here absolutely phenomenal um
the pack is bigger the smaller ones are mixed in with the larger ones you
can't really tell the size difference there should be 28 total in here now
it's just absolutely incredible not a single one of the smaller ones seems to be damaged in any way
neither are the big ones and i'm gonna do a full disclosure right quick give you some light
obviously i didn't just add them last night and this is the first time seeing them i did this a
few days ago and it's been such an amazing thing to come out to and see this tank is like done
no more i'm not adding any more piranha to it or any more maybe more tetris but that's it no more
anything else i want to give these guys some time to grow out look at the plants look how everything
is just absolutely phenomenally gorgeous what an exciting tank to have right here just incredible
yeah even watching them feed i do have to feed a heck of a lot
more oh damn there's velociraptors in the in the trees down there
it's it's incredible to feed them the bigger ones obviously get the food first but once they're
full the little ones go ahead and eat now we fast forward this tank six months from now and i can't
imagine what it's going to look like just it's going to be incredible just absolutely fascinating
now there should be 120 tetras you know from the looks of things maybe 40. it's really hard to
see them all in the uh 700 gallon because this is eight feet long five feet wide front to back but
they're everywhere they're all through the back um they're in the front i just turned the lights
on now so everybody's the even the prawn are a little bit skittish and the tetras are kind of
out looking um looking for food they know once the lights comes on i usually feed them right away but
they're not scared at all like look at these guys over here just chilling a little group of them
but yeah there's you don't see any i mean i don't even it's hard to count the piranha
i mean if i fed them they'll probably stay more stationary but there's some back in the
in the plants right now some are probably behind the wood
or the um the watch mccall it's one of those tree trunks but yeah isn't this awesome again
a little cloudy because i think the bigger guys kind of stirred it up but this tank is just
gorgeous i love it it is complete it's going to be a nightmare to i can't move this tank it's too big
it'd be a nightmare to take it apart it was too expensive and too time consuming and it
just turned out perfect it's got to stay here it's got to stay here this tank is done i'm
not switching this out i'm not doing anything this is fine just amazing look at them there
now give this tank six months the baby piranha are going to catch up uh to the adults for sure
in size and they we should have about 28 6-inch piranha in about six months
because even the big guys are like four to five inches the smaller ones are probably three to four
so they're only behind by about an inch but one inch in fish is is pretty substantial
but now we have another empty 180 gallon tank that the piranha were in what are we going to do there
come on luke let's go show them always got to wait for luke he's got to be a part of it
let's wait for him to come down come on buddy come on no he knows i'm just going to come right back
up well i'm working on something new it's going to be incredible it's going to be one of my favorite
projects to date i don't want to let anybody know too much about it because it's hard to envision
the plans right now if i just showed you something but uh and the long-term effects and what's going
to happen here but um so i'm not going to ruin too much for you with that said if you
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certainly help support the channel hope you guys enjoyed the piranha video though but they're
certainly doing a tremendous amount of updates on that and what's going on in the gallery like
a lot of the tanks are now empty we got to figure something out so um lots of cool things to come
see you guys in the next video also apparently um luke was coming down the stairs earlier
and i was out here and uh he stepped in the cat's water dish and slipped and fell down
the stairs so he doesn't want to go downstairs anymore oh anyways i gotta get back to work bye