Tony
dlmcneely-in-lunet.edu wrote:
>
> Michael, just want to make sure about the fish you kept, since the
> common name pacu is confusing in this country (and in Brazil, too, but
> more narrowly so). What genus were your fish? I remembered
> incorrectly, btw. I looked up the food habits reports in Goulding's
> book, and he says around 2% arthropods for the various pacus ("silver
> dollars") not including tambiqui when they are in isolated flood plain
> lakes. For tambiqui, he found fish and arthropods in 2 out of 127
> specimens. He did not examine any juvenile fish, however, and maybe
> they eat more animal material. If your fish were tambiqui, I'd say
> they were almost certainly juvenile fish, unless you have really big
> tanks!
>
> Dave
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Moontanman-in-aol.com
> Date: Thursday, July 20, 2006 10:50 am
> Subject: Re: NANFA-L-- Texas Man Catches Fish With Human-Like Teeth
> > I've kept pacu in a pond in my greenhouse and they ate meat. They
> > ate baby
> > turtles like they were going out of style. They would also eat
> > fresh shrimp,
> > they might prefer plants but mine ate what ever I fed them. The
> > baby turtles
> > were from a nest a turtle laid in my greenhouse. When they hatched
> > I took the
> > babies to the pond and almost lost them all to the pacu. It could
> > be they were
> > just hungry due to lack of sufficient plant food to satisfy them.
> > In the
> > wild they might be a lot more picky.
> >
> > Michael
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