Many people buy piranhas to have in your aquarium. Some of them because they are attracted to being dangerous and mysterious animals, others simply because they consider them beautiful and excellent pets.
However, few people know how a piranha differs from a false piranha or pacus.
These false species of piranhasThey are from the same family as piranhas, have the same threatening physical appearance and are of tropical origin.
Among this species of false piranhas there are different varieties:
- Red Piranha: it is the smallest piranha of the pacu family, it barely reaches 70 centimeters in length and is characterized by having an orange color on its abdomen, which is why it acquires the name of red piranha.
- Black piranha: it is one of the favorite piranhas of the fans of these mysterious and dangerous fish. Some of these animals can measure up to a meter and a half and are mainly characterized by being very long-lived and being black or dark gray in color.
Overall piranhas PacuThey have large and bulging eyes, which does not mean that they have very good vision, on the contrary they are a bit blind so their sense of smell is highly developed.
If we want to have piranhas in our aquarium, it is important that we make sure that they measure between 30 and 35 centimeters, since the best thing about buying this type of species is having the opportunity to see them grow. It is important that we only have a few specimens of this spice (maximum 6) since if we have more, they could have aggressive and even fatal behaviors. It is many occasions, if a piranha is not well fed, it could try to satisfy its hunger by eating another animal of the same weaker species.