Post #708737 by tikiskip on Wed, Feb 19, 2014 1:33 PM

Pacu Food & Care:

Remember that your Pacu is omnivorous (eats anything), so provide him with a varied diet. Many high quality processed fish foods are available on the market today, and most frozen fish foods are also appropriate. In the wild, most Pacu eat primarily vegetable matter, only opportunistically taking bites of fishes' fins or scavenging on an old carcass, so you are best off to try to duplicate this in the aquarium environment.

"Read this story about the enormous tank size requirements for Pacus
I bought two red belly pacus back in 1993, when they were only the size of a half dollar coin. Not doing any research on these two fish, I bought them because I enjoyed their manner in appearance, the way they fed, and their "unaggressiveness"; however, as they slowly grew in size, despite their small size, all of my small connunity fish became their dinner. Years later, (around Sept. 1999)