Piranha Man

Excellent. The reason it's finger chasing is because it is comfortable. Good for you. My big rhom is like a mean dog behind a fence.

Just saw this thread. Cool man that you're into the P's. Here's the straight goods... it does NOT work. I've tried as was aluded to. My rhom is 15" solid and he still snacked away at them. The smaller p's will be worse. :thumbs:

He's a nice one man. Looks like a diamond rhom to me Aaron. Very nice :thumbs:

Cool stuff... we got a rhom owner here! Woohoo! It will only lower the ph in reverse osmosis water. Our water is too stable in the cities. I wouldn't worry about it anyway. They thrive on darker substrate and full floating plant coverage if it's possible. Temp betwwen 80-84. And rhom's that size, feed small amounts daily. If you have any questions please feel free to pm me. I've been keeping a variety of p's off and on since the 80's. My rhom is 15".

I have some rare piranha's. One is over 15" and 5 lbs.

Well said. With certain piranha's it is impossible however. Hee Hee. Love the piranha questions here. Only see one year. -roll-

Excellent post Brad. I have always been aware of that but now I have some guidelines thanks to that link. Excellent!

This video clip is him about a week ago. He was measured at 15" last May. This video Clip is him in Sept 2005 eating a 7" Smelt. Some may have seen this before. In this clip he is 14". Hope you dig him. :smokey: :smokey: :smokey:

I'm a pred guy and am rarely impressed by any "harmless fish" that isn't in a salt water tank, but that is a stunning specimin!!!

Do you want a down payment now? Or should I just wait and see?

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Don't know what's wrong with the Eheim but it has rattle for a long time what part needs replacing?

Well how about Carrol. A girls name really. But your description of the fish reminds me of Archie Bunker. Dumb, confrontational when challenged, but really a coward... skittish, if you will. His real life name was Carrol O'Conner. Carrol. :thumbs:

I love overstocked tanks. As long as the set-up is filtered properly.

Very nice man. Healthy.

I would die for a room like that. :drool:

Thanks Darcy I will post more pics more often. And yes, he likes when people come to visit. :smokey:

Alot of people have been asking me how I did this so I will explain.. Lay the tank on it's side... Start applying the expanding foam...it's in can's called 'Great Stuff'... build up your corners first how you want them... let dry. It's best to make your foam lie down side to side... layering it. TIP: If you want to get the foam to really expand, mist it with water. Once that dried I then I drilled out holes for the filter tubes to fit in and be hidden... then i fit them in... Next I foamed directly on the glass as well for the middle 4ft. I layed down thin ribbons of foam indiscriminately... Have good control of how much is leaving the can... the ribbons should be slow and thin as you want to save as much tank space as possible width wise. Once that dried then I mixed up my resin and did a liberal coat over the whole thing... and then cover with a thick layer of sand.... came back the next day and wire brushed the sand off and had my texture... Now I did two good coats of resin and let it dry. NEXT.. Masked off the the exposed glass.. Paint... (spray bombs) Painted black first... Then put the tank upright and painted from a standing position with some earth tones I liked. When you paint from a standing position the bumps dont recieve color on the under side so you have great shadow and really adds depth. If you never used spray paint just mist it on about 2ft away. Anyway once you color is done then you do very light coats of Acrylic clear coat spray. Be VERY patient here as it will wash out your color if it goes on to liberally, or 'wet' looking... Just do light misty coats. Do as many as you want and it is ready to go. I filled it 3x and let sit 24 hrs each time. You probably don't need to. There are little things you can do I didn't mention... like what i used for tubing with the filter inserts but you can figure that out. This can be done in 3 hours total. Not counting cure times That's it. :smokey: Here is a link to how I did the Auto Water Change: http://www.piranha-fury.com/pfury/index.ph...mp;hl=auto-drip

Yes it is. I don't have hardly any algea at all because of the low nitrates. Glad you guys dig it. I do! It's a very moody tank with an awesome lone predatory fish. Have you considered trying to do a large school of cardinal tetras or something with him? It would look awesome, assuming of course he ignored them or snacked slowly. I tried that and it was awesome to start but sadly he picked away at them. And there were ALOT. I'm going to go with Exodons next. I have one in there and he doesn't seem to even notice it.

I completed this back in May and have been lazy posting pics. I did the background myself. My filters are plumbed into it so as to stay hidden. And I am running an auto-drip set-up from my plumbing under my kitchen sink. To neutralize the Chloramine I am dosing the water with an IV doser. I have pre-mixed cCloram-X that is keeping the water Chloramine free. The auto-water change has been running for about 3 months that way and I have had nothing but trouble free joy. Hope you enjoy!

Hey Fred! How are the fish coming along? You are a funny guy. If I sell you anything else you may get divorce papers. -roll-

Great post. Excellent.

Dabbling in the idea of buying an FX5 and selling my two XP3's. Just want to simplify my set-up. What are the pro's and con's? I already have thought of the variables but want to hear from you guys and gals. :smokey:

My Rhombeus Titus. He's like a dog to me.

Negative. :beer: Binder Dundat -roll-