ajm

aaaaw

One of my red bellies is losing a quadrant of teeth to be replaced by a nice fresh sharp set. They lose them in sets comprising a half of one jaws worth. Unlike a shark who's teeth are ready formed in a row behind the red belly's new teeth will be growing through from below and slightly behind, pushing out the old set more like a human losing milk teeth.



This is the first time I've caught one in the act, unfortuantely the teeth are still too small to find in the gravel.

LG John

Yeah, yeah, very good!! Post some pics of it maulling stuff

Ayde

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Used to have a red belly but sadly he died earlier this year he was about 5 years old - got plenty of his teeth, they got quite big

stevem2k

got to see the pics of ajm rubbing the calgel in

David Lock

Does he look like his daddy?

ajm

He's got my eyes!

ajm

Shame he died, 5 yrs is still pretty young for a piranha Did he get sick?

Was he on his own or were there others? Its often hard to tell cause of death in a shoal because they don't tend to leave much for the autopsy!

Ayde

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He was by himself, he was fine he had been looking a bit rough for a while and not eating but in the last few months before he died he was stunning - full set of teeth, red belly, scales and fins in excellent condition, full bodied etc... but he never really got his appetite back. He started acting odd and within a couple of days he was swimming round on his side (or upside down) and totally dis-orientated. I ended up putting him out of his misery (which took some doing). He was only fed on frozen lance fish and prawns/krill.

mj

there's your answer, these things have evolved to eat live annimals that fall into the water FFS. Your fish probably commited suicide.

You need a piece of string stretched over the top of the tank for the mice to walk on. or frogs from the garden, worms, sparrows...etc..etc...