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Tropical Fish Keeping => General Fishkeeping Chat => Topic started by: Afterburner on January 23, 2021, 06:43:39 PM

Title: Cory Vs piranha
Post by: Afterburner on January 23, 2021, 06:43:39 PM

Google must have noticed I'm looking up Corys recently - this popped up in my feed, quite interesting if a bit grim!
https://api.nationalgeographic.com/distribution/public/amp/animals/2021/01/tiny-catfish-shrugs-off-piranha-bites

Title: Re: Cory Vs piranha
Post by: Hampalong on January 23, 2021, 06:50:02 PM

Big piranhas can bite through wooden oars so it may have been a young one without the necessary power, or a big one just ‘moving it on’ or ‘sizing it up’ then deciding not to eat it. They don’t always eat every fish they encounter.
Even a large Oscar can crunch through a Cory, and they don’t have the razor sharp teeth of a piranha or the jaw power.

Title: Re: Cory Vs piranha
Post by: Matt on January 26, 2021, 06:17:13 AM

Interesting article! A good example of why we should be protecting our planets biodiversity - we have so much to learn from the natural world.