Piranha Realities

Piranha Realities 

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Actinopterygii

Order: Characiformes

Family: Characidae

Genus: Piranha

Investigative Name: Pygocentrus Nattereri

Type: Fish

Diet: Omnivore

Size (L): 20cm - 50cm (7.8in - 20in)

Water Type: Fresh

Ideal pH Level: 6 - 8

Life Span: 20 - 25 years

Preservation Status: Least Concern

Colour: Grey, Yellow, Blue, Red

Skin Type: Scales

Most loved Food: Fish

Habitat: Fast streaming streams and Amazon bowl

Normal Grasp Size: 5,000

Primary Prey: Fish, Bugs, Snails. Plants

Predators: Botos, Crocodiles, Turtles

Particular Features: Rounded head and a solitary line and triangular teeth

The piranha is a sort of freshwater fish found in the streams of the South American wildernesses. The piranha can be found in almost every nation in South America and the piranha have been seeming all the more as of late in the south of the USA.

The piranha fish has a solitary column of dangerously sharp teeth with the piranha being most generally known for their desire for blood. The piranha bolsters on fish, warm blooded creatures and winged animals alike, with the wholes gathering of piranhas sustaining together in a slight free for all.

Notwithstanding the meat eating nature of the piranha, the piranha is really an omnivore and will eat verging on anything that it can discover. Piranhas for the most part eat fish, snails, bugs and amphibian plants sporadically eating bigger warm blooded animals and fowls that fall into the water.

Regardless of its dreaded nature, the piranha really has various predators in the wild, including people that chase the piranha for nourishment. Piranhas are gone after by extensive predators, for example, stream dolphins (known as botos), crocodiles, turtles, flying creatures and bigger fish.

The piranha is for the most part around 30cm long however some piranha people have been discovered measuring about 80cm. The piranha is said to be more dreaded by numerous people than even a shark.

Piranhas are by and large found in quick streaming streams and streams where there is a lot of sustenance for the piranha to eat. The piranhas lives respectively in substantial shores and continually vie for nourishment. Sustaining crazes will be activated when there is a lack of sustenance or blood in the water.

Piranhas have a tendency to breed in sets in slower water, for example, tidal ponds by and large amid the blustery season around April to May. The mating pair set up a home that the female piranha lays groups of eggs in. The female piranha lays a normal of 5,000 eggs and because of the way that the male piranha and the female piranha safeguard their secured eggs so adequately, more than 90% frequently survive and bring forth after only a couple of days.

In August 2009 a 35cm piranha was found in a stream in Devon, a large number of miles from its local home. The group that found the piranha were totally puzzled concerning what this tropical fish was going in a waterway in Britain yet later derived that this piranha probably been kept as a pet and afterward discharged because of the way that it was eating sweetcorn.