was bored so took few pictures of my reds starting to get big now (photos took with my phone so not the best)

looking good mate, nice colour on them.

cheers mate had to put light on for pictures dont usally put them on and use a blue light at night

Add a pic of your blue light then when it's night. Would'nt mind seeing what that looks like.

Looking very nice.Nice red on them..always a sign of good health and happiness.

heres picture of blue light when i first got it

Nice mate

Great colouring on them.

Very nice James, it used to be hard to get reds with that much colour

Nice lookkin reds them mate, crackin colour on them

Looking good and nice colour red on them and i like the moonlight.

yeah got more colour on them than the last reds i had my mate feeds his pellets to try and bring out the colour on his but ive never gave mine pellets just fishy foods and got them on fishy foods as soon as i got them when they where tiny that was 4 months ago

i've got blue LEDS 2 but someone told me you need to have them off at night so the fish can go into sleep mode, any truth in this or can they be kept on 24/7?

I wouldnt, I have blue lighting and always turn it off at night. Firstly its useing pointless electricity, secondly lighting in piranha tanks is just for our benefit and thirdly, as far as I know all fish need darkness to sleep.

they look in great shape and nice colouration

i have mine on for about 4 hours in the evening they on timer and switches off about 10.30pmcheers mate

nice one boys i have mine on a timer for an hour at night and 4 in the morning so this should be fine. cheers

Are they nipping each other yet James? They look the same size as my second lot and mine are biting chunks out of each others fins. I reduced the temp yesterday, see if that helps. My first batch dont have a mark on them although they are in a smaller tank.

ive had a few fin nips but dont seem to get as many now when they were about 2.5"ish they where knocking lumps out each other but not bad now the biggest 1 out of them he seems to be boss what im surprised is they are not that skittish for tankys compared to the last little reds i had

I think its a lot to do with tank location James. Like how much traffic goes past the tank and at what height it is off the floor. I have one lot in a tank in my fish room/garage at the end, at head height. When I go within 10 foot of them they go mental. The other lot, in my office are to the left of me at waste height, and are totaly different, even finger chase.

a few of mine will come to the finger aswell this time i didnt put alot of cover in tank to try and stop them from being skittish plus its a bigger tank than i had with my last reds in, at feeding time they all come up to the hole where i put the food in mine are greedy b*stards they would eat till they burst at first i thought they might be wild reds as the bottom lip sticks out more than the last tankys i had but am sure they aint as i got them when they where tiny from a lfs im going there today again so going to ask them where thay got them from

looken braw m8, mine come on wed so looken 4ward to that!!!!!

What does that mean in my lingo ?

Lol means "nice"

Howdy.


Good Bandit, your reds are doing great so far!!!!