one of the most misunderstood fish in the aquarium hobby and by far
the single most over dramatized fish in the world the first fish that i ever kept in my hobby 20
years ago today we move the pack the absolute pack of red belly piranha to their final home but first
you know i got to do a quick update so first and foremost the aquarium is a little bit cloudy
and that's simply because as you've seen in the previous videos adding in all of this cycled media
that's already established you know it lets off a little bit of detritus we went ahead and added in
some activated carbon just to clear the tank up because obviously it needs a little polishing
and then these are fully cycled uh biological sponges or mechanical
sponges but in this purpose we're using them for both they're already seeded with plenty
of beneficial bacteria nitrous synonymous as well as nitrobacter the water is coming in through the
top it's overflowing it's being pre-filtered through this sponge chemically filtered
and polished through the carbon as well as these sponges finally going through a few
gallons of biological media and then of course return to the main aquarium with its return pump
mind you what you guys really want to hear about and what you really guys what you guys really
want to talk about is the differences in what we are looking at now compared to when we started
see the lights coming down as beams i think that is so sexy
yeah this tank is so gorgeous with that said you'll remember originally we had a fine
or a larger size gravel in the aquarium it looked just like that in fact that is some of it
i vacuumed out most of it leaving some behind because i thought it looked rather natural
then of course add it in the sand and that's kind of what is making it look a little um
cloudy as well over the next few days or a few weeks that's going to change you're also going
to notice that in the corners is no longer silk or fake plants we added in a mountain of anubias
nana just a whole bunch of it not all that i got i have so much of my favorite plant by the way but
we have so many more clumps and it's cascading down as well as here now the rocks that it's on
it's technically attached to lava rock and in this cloudy environment it's difficult to see the color
of it but lava rock is a red and the maple leaf is more red orange but they kind of blend together
and my hopes are is that these two corners are going to be absolutely covered in anubias at
some point because it will spread plus these rocks being so porous are going to act like biological
media as well the wood just looks absolutely fantastic and i wonder if you guys imagined this
is what it would look like when i was escaping it and showing you guys how to do it just a few rocks
some sand a few pieces of wood i think it looks absolutely menacing and ready for the piranha
however it's very important that we move these guys soon they're not doing fantastic in the 40
gallon breeder aquarium that they're currently in they're getting a little skittish and
i i know they're gonna do tremendously better in their main aquarium the problem with getting like
this type of skittish is they might start biting each other and taking chunks out of each other
which has happened with a few of them mind you we put in about 20 in there i'm not sure how
many is left but it wouldn't surprise me if a few of them cannibalized each other so in
their aquarium just floating around is more mountains of that anubias i'll just transfer
it over to that temporary holding tank for the frontosa these 40 gallons are temporary tanks
for fish that we already had on hand that needed to be moved and housed while we set those tanks up
so these are not temporary all of these will be set up and escaped
over time one thing at a time though we've got to get these prawn out look at how they act
they're just going nuts in this aquarium smashing all over the place they will bite they will knit
and you know i do worry about these types of things so we got to get them out but there's
only one way to kind of remove piranha and that my friends is in a plastic container because
when i scoop them up with this net and it is a relatively small net but when i
scoop them up with this they're going to bite through it hopefully not but these
guys have actually bitten through nets before and completely ruined them a couple in there
so we're only going to be able to move a couple at a time
because they flip out and they'll nip and they'll bite and they panic and it's not their fault
they're gonna love this oh this is gonna be perfect for them as soon as they settle into this
tank and become accustomed to it and acclimated to the environment they will find this t aquarium
incredibly soothing for a number of reasons they can go under the rocks they can hide they can
find refuge behind the plants but they also have sticks everywhere and all of these these pieces
of wood everywhere is acting like a dither fish to a certain extent but you got to keep in mind that
we will be adding probably around 1 to 200 small tetras that some people might be like well don't
piranha eat smaller fish or eat fish in general and the simple answer is yeah kind of depends
piranha if it's going to eat another fish the fish has to be sick or already dying
and big enough to be considered worth the effort and a tiny little tetra
compared to a large charism like the piranha it's just not worth it
yeah these guys look great they're going to grow out
they're going to have a massive growth spurt in here and all of their fins are going to heal
piranhas by nature at a small size are fin nippers and scale scrapers they'll
go after another fish's fins you need to put some water in there yeah sorry
as well as their scales they'll literally try to rip the scales off another fish
yeah i could feel them biting the neck
nice healthy size these would be sold as
medium-sized even though a piranha could potentially get up to a foot in length
they do find safety in numbers though and you can see they're just kind of trying to hug each other
lay down together and be together but look at them just hide we give this tank 24 to 48 hours which
once we add everybody in the video is going to cut off and then we'll come back to it
but once we give them that time they'll be all throughout the aquarium and then
when we add in smaller tetras which will act like dither fish for sure which means that uh
as unfortunate as it sounds but dither fish are more so smaller fish that act mindless
i'm like selecting two at a time no matter what
and no matter what goes on in an aquarium
even with you know moving around them or whatever did their fish keep continuously acting normal
giving the impression to the larger fish that everything is normal and if your fish are hiding
all the time and whatnot then you might possibly want to add in some dither fish and it doesn't
always have to be tetris because some people's fish aren't compatible with them it just needs
to be a group of fish that is relatively mindless that will go along well with what you already have
all right so there's 18 in there let's give them let's give them 24 hours to settle in i'm gonna
shut the lights off and we'll see what they're doing tomorrow so it's 24 hours later with the
piranha aquarium obviously the tank still needs some clearing up to do and that's largely my
fault i didn't rinse the sand out and that's what we're dealing with now but the wood as well is
releasing tannins and whatnot give it some time and this tank's going to clear up beautifully
one of the things that i was anticipating on is with this type of scape there's not a ton of space
for the fish to hide in the corners they can find refuge to go underneath and whatnot but piranha
don't really do that and what they are doing is what we're seeing right now is it's forcing them
all to the center and as they grow and become more secure in this aquarium they'll of course
fill it out a little bit more but as you can see even right now um they're all in the middle for
the most part all relaxing i would estimate that i'll be able to feed them in another day or two
and then they'll start to acclimate to the tank a little bit more and swim throughout it and in the
months to come once they put on a bit of a growth spurt we can add in some fish um some tetras and
stuff that'll probably swim near the top and that would be absolutely gorgeous for this aquarium
and i think you guys are really gonna love it right now it's a little disappointing because the
the prawn are all at the bottom but they are acclimating and if i come over
um they'll like scatter away a little bit but that's to be expected at times um really big
one back there but uh yeah everybody's looking good look see they can hide under there if you
can see a couple of them they can hide we're over this is a perfect aquarium it's it's the ultimate
piranha aquarium in my opinion i love it i think it's gorgeous give it a few more days for it
to clear up and the piranha to get a little more comfortable in the tank and start eating and this
tank is going to be just absolutely phenomenal and i think you guys would agree but that's it for
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