Keeping a red bellie piranha solo yes or no?

[Goldenburd]

Hi there my name is Golden_aqutics. I've been keeping my rescue pirhana for about 1 year and a couple months and i was wondering your guys opinion on keeping him by himself with a few friends that he gets along with great. I've seen that your not supposed to keep them by themselves but I don't think thats true when i rescued JAWS (my rescue pirhana) i found him in a 3 gallon tank with 2 other pirahnas and i save him otherwise he would be dead in next few hours because he was beaten by the others so bad his jaw was broken and fin ripped ( how he got the name JAWS) and he's recovered ever since that day and doing well he even got a great personality on him like letting me feed hin by hand and many more things. Do you support this action of keeping him alone or no?

 

[Chicxulub]

Moved to piranhas

 

[Goldenburd]

Moved to piranhas

Ok

 

[dr exum]

Good solo, or with two additional like sized pygos in at least a 75, do a water change and mix up the tank before adding others. GL

 

[Goldenburd]

Good solo, or with two additional like sized pygos in at least a 75, do a water change and mix up the tank before adding others. GL

So a 120 wpnt be to nig for him? He's in a 55 gallon now woth some others fish he heys along woth like a bucktooth terta and a bristle nose pleco and a ton of live plants

 

[BichirKing]

no tank is to big. 75g is a minimum.

 

[audiction]

its ok to make pygos solitary...that's up to you. if you want it perfect always then do a solitary pygo tank and if you want a more active tank so a school of them. no such thing as a big tank or over filtering it. provide them with the biggest home and the best filtration. i couldn't believe an idiot could house 3 pygos in a 3 gallon...that's insane. when i got my very first manueli a million years ago it was only 3.5 inches. i actually housed that in a 100g by itself just to to see what will happen. it got more aggressive and actually patrolled the whole tank. anything i put in that tank he would kill/eat. wouldn't tolerate another fish. manuelis get more territorial if given a lot of room. believe it or not that small little thing used up the whole 100g...very fast swimmer and used every space in that tank.

 

[fishhead0103666]

he even got a great personality on him like letting me feed hin by hand

You have got balls of steel to feed him by hand, any chance we could get a video of it?

 

[Goldenburd]

You have got balls of steel to feed him by hand, any chance we could get a video of it?

Eh he grew out of hand feeding now he won't eat in front of me sadly only video i have is him eating when he was young with thongs because where he was. Sorry man.

 

[Goldenburd]

its ok to make pygos solitary...that's up to you. if you want it perfect always then do a solitary pygo tank and if you want a more active tank so a school of them. no such thing as a big tank or over filtering it. provide them with the biggest home and the best filtration. i couldn't believe an idiot could house 3 pygos in a 3 gallon...that's insane. when i got my very first manueli a million years ago it was only 3.5 inches. i actually housed that in a 100g by itself just to to see what will happen. it got more aggressive and actually patrolled the whole tank. anything i put in that tank he would kill/eat. wouldn't tolerate another fish. manuelis get more territorial if given a lot of room. believe it or not that small little thing used up the whole 100g...very fast swimmer and used every space in that tank.

When you say pygos you mean red bellies right? Also woth the territorial part he never got aggresive with his tank mates?