Need Help with My PIRANHA!!!!!

[Freahwater13]

My Piranha will not eat. Plain and Simple. He has been doing this for qiute a while. I put in Rosey Reds a month ago and he stil has two left. The water is perfect ( so said by the fish experts). I had him for 6 months and he lost red and all. HELP ME!!!

[FishKid]

what size tank, how big is he, how big are the fish you are feeding him, how much water circulation, what filter, do you leave the leftover fish bodys in the tank, do you use water straight from the tap for the tank (i.e. do you use stress coat?

red bellied piranhas are very timid, and most likely wil not eat infront of you, especially when there is only 1 piranha. if the feeders are very big, chances are he can not disable them easily enough to eat them, also try varying the diet of the fish, try some beefheart, brineshrimp, worms... keep in mind that they get 12" long! a 30 gal would be needed for 1! do you have any live plants in there? if not, i'd suggest some amazon sword, anachris, creeping charlie, ect.. also some floating plants such as water sprite would be needed, as piranhas like the light to be dimmed by floating plants... as for it loosing color, try some sinking carnivore pellets (make sure it can swallow it), or cichlid pellets. what is the color of the gravel, darker natural gravel seems to promote coloration.

i'd suggestion posting the same question here: www.piranha.org

email me here: aquatic1@optonline.net

lets hope for the best

mark

[aquatic dude]

hey fish kid!!
i need ur help as well.
i what the heck is gallon???
i hv 10 red belly,,but baby..only like an inch
and i mix them with the big ones..around 8-10 inches..yesterday i forgot 2 feed them..then they ate the babies..some of them were half bitten..so should i seperate the???