Need help with Pacu someone gave me!! eekk!
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Lift up the hair on your forehead... look in the mirror.. do you see "REKCUS"?
Just kidding. LOL
If you Google "Pacu rescue adoption", there are thousands of hits of people trying to get rid of Pacu's after they buy them as cute little fruit/veggie eating Pirahna type fish and then find out they grow GIGANTIC!!!
Do not let them loose for obvious reasons since they could probably wreck havoc on the local environment.
Check with your local newspapers for FREE ads which many have for giving away animals. Also Google for any fish clubs in your area or a nearby area. Contact them for some help in placing your newly adopted pets.
Last option, go buy a HUGE aquarium. http://www.GlassCages.com and http://www.Aquatraders.com have really good prices on tanks.
Just kidding. LOL
If you Google "Pacu rescue adoption", there are thousands of hits of people trying to get rid of Pacu's after they buy them as cute little fruit/veggie eating Pirahna type fish and then find out they grow GIGANTIC!!!
Do not let them loose for obvious reasons since they could probably wreck havoc on the local environment.
Check with your local newspapers for FREE ads which many have for giving away animals. Also Google for any fish clubs in your area or a nearby area. Contact them for some help in placing your newly adopted pets.
Last option, go buy a HUGE aquarium. http://www.GlassCages.com and http://www.Aquatraders.com have really good prices on tanks.
Ahhhh...should have known....LOL
He gave me the 90gal they were in also.....but I would just rather have the tank..lol
THey are a breeding pair I think as the female seems to be egg fat.
Of course I would never let them free into the envirement locally as I have seen what a couple of real Piranna can to in the everglades..lol
I will make every effort to get them adopted out to a responsible party tho.
Thanks for the feedback Lenny,
FLBob
He gave me the 90gal they were in also.....but I would just rather have the tank..lol
THey are a breeding pair I think as the female seems to be egg fat.
Of course I would never let them free into the envirement locally as I have seen what a couple of real Piranna can to in the everglades..lol
I will make every effort to get them adopted out to a responsible party tho.
Thanks for the feedback Lenny,
FLBob
You could just euthanize them. Obviously they are pretty unwanted, so why bother yourself trying to find happy homes for them. Every day in the grocery stores across this country we see hundreds of thousands of fish put on the chopping block. Honestly, if I were you, I'd google pacu recipes and see what kind of meal you could make out of them. I'd be willing to bet they're not that bad. After dinner you'll have a lot of energy to go shopping for smaller fish for your newly emptied 90 gallon tank. In Brazil the locals eat pacu and piranha, and actually farm raise Pacu for food since they taste so good. ANd let me tell you, with the Amazon in Brazil, they have a lot of diffrent types of fish to choose from, and they choose pacu. I went piranha fishing myself in Brazil several years ago. Check out this thread about what to do wtih big Pacu, and notice what the guy frmo Brazil says about them: http://www.oscarfish.com/thanks-and-more-questions-on-my-pacu-vt1522.html
PS: The preferred method of euthanizing a giant pacu like you have is the chopping block.
PSS: Here is a shot of my piranha fishing in the Amazon River. Remember, fish were food before they were pets.
PS: The preferred method of euthanizing a giant pacu like you have is the chopping block.
PSS: Here is a shot of my piranha fishing in the Amazon River. Remember, fish were food before they were pets.
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Here is an article on the Greater Seattle Aquarium Society's website about serving up big fish for dinner as well (this time it's a 26-inch long silver arowana): http://www.gsas.org/Articles/1999/to-server-fish.html
And on this Brazilian website, they list some items on popular menus, including:
Pintado, pacu and dourado (a kind of catfish) are served by most restaurants in the area. The Pantanal menu also satisfies those who like exotic recipes such as piranha soup – thought to be an aphrodisiac – and alligator meat.
For more on Pantanal cuisine, visit:
http://www.caiman.com.br/caiman/new-portugues/refugio/gastronomia.asp
http://www.mercedessanchez.com.br/pantanal/madeinpantanal_receitas.htm
And the list goes on and on...: http://www.aquarticles.com/articles/travel/Aldridge_Peruvian_Amazonia.html
And on this Brazilian website, they list some items on popular menus, including:
Pintado, pacu and dourado (a kind of catfish) are served by most restaurants in the area. The Pantanal menu also satisfies those who like exotic recipes such as piranha soup – thought to be an aphrodisiac – and alligator meat.
For more on Pantanal cuisine, visit:
http://www.caiman.com.br/caiman/new-portugues/refugio/gastronomia.asp
http://www.mercedessanchez.com.br/pantanal/madeinpantanal_receitas.htm
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I think I'm gonna go with Delta on this one and say that your best course of action if you can't find it/them a good home is to eat them! What better way to get rid of the fish you can't keep and nobody else will take, but in the same time, not wasting the fish? I think it's perfectly reasonable to raise animals (yes, according to recent scientific discoveries, fish are, in fact, animals) to eat them. Everyone's heard of cows, right? Guess where your burger comes from? =)
Copper shmopper! The whole reason we now have organic food everywhere is because anything that doesn't say "organic" is totally full of harmful crud, pesticides, herbicides, etc. I would be willing to bet that that aquarium fish has been subjected to less stuff than the typical wild caught fish these days.
i'm all about eating stuff, but, personally, i wouldn't eat anything that's been swimming around in its own filth + medications/chemicals + god knows what else. i disagree with nodelta, i think aquarium fish are subjected to far worse than typical wild caught fish, if only because aquarium fish exist in closed systems for extended periods of time.
Just go out and buy a BIG tank... http://www.GlassCages.com has a 240G long for $450.00 or you might find one cheaper used.
Yeah, you could always go BUY a HUGE tank for the Pacu: $$$$ http://www.tenecor.com/
I Never said I am a fish lover. I am more of an aquarium lover; the fish are just one component of the aquarium.
Fish lover or not, the chances of you finding anyone who wants them and has an adequate tank space is near nil. Buying a tank that's half big enough will run you 500 dollars for the glass box alone.
Do what will happen if you take them back to an lfs, and sad to say, kill them humanely. It's up to you if you eat them. Anyone hear eat farmed salmon - I can't imagine anyone here meds their fish as much as those things
Do what will happen if you take them back to an lfs, and sad to say, kill them humanely. It's up to you if you eat them. Anyone hear eat farmed salmon - I can't imagine anyone here meds their fish as much as those things
There's nothing wrong with eating your fish. And, like Delta said, you COULD go buy a tank, but then again, there's that one little obsticale; money. Not everyone has $450.00 to buy a tank online, not to mention the shipping charges on that. There's going to be very few local sources that'd be willing to accept your fish, especially a pacu. I stand firm in justifying that you can, in fact, eat your own aquarium fish. How is eating your own aquarium fish any different than eating a cow you've raised that's been standing in it's own excrement out in a field?
And speaking of eating fish, I refer you all to the poll I poseted a while back about just that thing: http://www.myfishtank.net/forum/showthread.php?t=26340. It seems that we are about tied on whether we would eat an aquarium fish or not. but it's not too late to sway the vote one way or the other...
PS: And No, I do NOT try to turn every thread into a euthanization or fish-eating thread, although it may appear that way to some... I seem to remember a post back in early April where I did not mention it even once!
PS: And No, I do NOT try to turn every thread into a euthanization or fish-eating thread, although it may appear that way to some... I seem to remember a post back in early April where I did not mention it even once!
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A very large component.
This is a very sad thread. It is, lets be honest, irresponsible for shops to sell these fish. What % live more 5 years. I'm not saying 'ban the keeping of these fish', but if they weren't available all the time how many people do you think would especially order them?
I don't buy the argument 'we stock them because people want them'. If that's the case stop stocking them and get them as special orders if they want them so damn much.
This is a very sad thread. It is, lets be honest, irresponsible for shops to sell these fish. What % live more 5 years. I'm not saying 'ban the keeping of these fish', but if they weren't available all the time how many people do you think would especially order them?
I don't buy the argument 'we stock them because people want them'. If that's the case stop stocking them and get them as special orders if they want them so damn much.
I agree Wayne. I'm just hyped up with this "eating" them buisiness.. and the whole "kill them 'humanly'" How can you kill an innocent creature humanly? So - what, some may think they're "just fish", they still breathe.. they're still alive and in my opinion- they still feel pain. It was the thread starters fault for accepting a large tank without knowing much about the... 'residents' that would come with it.. I hope this teaches more people to ask questions!!!! I don't agree with killing them in the least, they're amazing creatures... seriously, it's just not right. Just because they're not CONVINIENT to you - you'd kill them?
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