Dewey lake piranha

[dc chopper]

Correct, piranha are "tetras." All tetras are characins (lately there has been some division in the order but I dont really want to get into that) and all characins have teeth and adipose fins, ok all but a few species have adipose fins.

If you guys want to check out some really COOL fish that are characins/tetras that make piranhas look like guppies, google image search the species listed below. Contrary to popular belief, piranhas rarely get larger then 10" and most piranha do not hunt and kill their prey, rather they sit and wait for a large fish such as a big red tail cat to swim by when they then will dart out and take a little nip out of the fin. The nip will heal very quickly and causes no harm to the "prey" , neat huh?

Anyhow the fish to look up which are all legal in KY where as piranha are not...keep that in mind...

Hydrolycus armatus


this is too confusing.. I think ill just stick to largemouthus bassitissauris

Hydrocynus goliath

Hoplias amira

Salminus maxilosus

Sorry guys, I get too excited when it comes to exotics sometimes. When ever I get the chance I like to try and introduce some cool fish and dispell some myths about exotics to fellow fish people. Afterall, we are all fisherman here so we all at least are somewhat interested in the fish themselves...I hope!!

This is too confusing, I think ill just stick to bassitasaurus al la largemouthus

[linedrager]

Piranhas are teteras.

guess I'll quite hand feeding my tetras !!!