Talk:Pacu

message: I have seen, and eaten, several pacu that were caught in the Panama canal, specifically Gatun lake. Are they an introduced/invasive species there? There seems to be no mention of the occurrence of pacu in the Panama canal or other Central American lakes.     —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.224.3.238 (talk) 07:03, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Pacu in Panama Canal

message: Angler catches strange piranha-like fish in Utah Lake 166.70.233.89 02:20, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, I added this and other recent news stories about US introductions into the main article. Neil916 15:30, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pacu found in [[Utah Lake]] 

message: This article may want to be merged into the species article Colossoma macropomum once it is created.  Alternatively, we may want to create a whole "Pacu" disambiguation page since Fishbase lists several different species with the word "Pacu" in the common name. Neil916 15:30, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Future merge

message: I added quotations from Teddy Roosevelt's memoir of a Brazilian trip, specifically because he talks about eating pacús, and methods of catching them. I think this is important because I haven't found any other sources that refer to the pacú as a food source. I will add citations as quickly as I can figure out how to do so; I'm actually referencing Bartleby's online version of Roosevelt's book. I believe this qualifies as Fair Use.
--Renice 18:01, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quotations from T. Roosevelt book 

message: This article doesn't focus on the Pacu fish in their natural environments much. Instead, it focuses on human interaction with the fish. It needs to broadened before it can become a Good Article. Everything else is great. Nice job on the referencing. --GoOdCoNtEnT 19:25, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Good Article

message: Someone requested images of the fish, one request was of prepared pacu. I found this image , can someone verify if that is pacu? --Inahet 00:16, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's hard to say from the photo -- given the title, I'd assume they ordered "pacu" from a menu. However, this photo  seems to be a different perspective on the same dish, and the teeth look more like piranhas'. It may be irrelevant because of copyright though. --Renice 04:25, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually both photos can be uploaded since both have Creative Commons Attribution Licenses, v. 2.0., like this photo I uploaded. So if it is pacu, anyone can upload it. Anyway, the fish's tail in the image of prepared pacu doesn't match that of a piranha but it does look like that of the pacu fish. --Inahet 16:19, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Good points! The author provided me some details on the dish, and I've added it to page. Thanks! --Renice 22:57, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm glad that I was of some help. Inahet 01:46, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image request 

message: Shouldn't info on the Pacu with human-like teeth caught by Scott Curry be included? Tim Long 05:47, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There's a link in External links to a video of him and his catch. There's also a link to an article about him from the Texas catch refs. --Renice 13:19, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Scott Curry

message: Pacu are not considered a clade or valid taxonomic group; they're more of a "folk" grouping. This article treats the folk grouping, which I think is appropriate. I'm going to change the dab line at the top, though, to link to Pacu (disambiguation), which dab's among individual species as well as unrelated uses of the word. --Ginkgo100talk 19:24, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Also, I boldly reorganized the article. Also, after reading some of the refs, it's apparent that this may be a valid taxonomic group, but a controversial one. I think this strengthens this article's case for future GA status. --Ginkgo100talk 19:54, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi Ginkgo. It's great that you're reorganizing this. In my understanding, Pacu is kind of semi-taxonomic, similarly to the situation of the mbuna. Members of the subfamily Serrasalminae are commonly known either as pacu, piranha, or silver dollar depending on the genera AND obvious physical features (large herbivores = pacu, schooling carnivores = piranha, smaller silvery fishes = silver dollars). But these names could overlap and don't always correlate with the current taxonomy. You might wanna check out Tilapia which is also going through a reorganizing due to confusion of taxonomy and common names. --Melanochromis 20:15, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article's future 

message: In a larger, 200 U.S. gallons aquarium (@756 metric liters), how many adult Pacus could be sucessfully raised from a 5-6 cm ,or two to three inch size, and enjoyed as "pets"? Is a large plecostomus compatible with these fish, and how aggressive are they amongst themselves? Would other fish work with them too? Perhaps the proper information can be integrated into the article, or an offshoot of the article. Thanks, Dr. Dan 02:34, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi Dr. Dan. I'm afraid a 200 gallons aquarium isn't big enough for multiple pacus. They will outgrow the tank and the dominant one will bully the others if there's not enough space to swim away. I used to have 2 black pacus in a medium sized pond and the bigger one kept bullying the smaller one all the time. In a more confined area, the aggression would probably be much worse I think. But my pacus ignored unrelated fish though. There were tons of various mbuna and other cichlids sharing the ponds, and I didn't see any got chased by the pacus. So my suggestion is that you keep a single pacu with other unrelated large fish, or instead of pacu, you can probably keep a small group of silver dollars which might be easier to manage in a 200 galllons tank. Cheers, --Melanochromis 03:09, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, and one pacu and say, five silver dollars in such a tank, O.K., or not O.K.? Dr. Dan 21:07, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  PLEASE DO NOT GET A PACU! 200 gallons is *not enough* to house even ONE pacu. Pacu will grow in excess of 3 feet in home aquaria and they are extremely powerful -- they can very easily break glass if they do not have enough room to move around. Here is a tank specs thread by Debra Mark (a member of Aquaria Central who has a 3240 gallon tank that contained a 25 year old pacu. The pacu passed away last year at 28 years of age): http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35644  Look at the SIZE of that fish and please reconsider. Get some piranha or something, but not pacu. Roan Art 15:10, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. These are very large fish not suited to any home aquarium. Only a public aquarium can maintain pacu in the long term. --Ginkgo100talk 20:09, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, and another thing -- vegetarian or not, pacu have very powerful dentition and could probably take your finger off. --Ginkgo100talk 20:10, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Help

message: These fishes have peculiar teeth resembling human teeth. This may be a trivia, but worth mention in the article. (ref: http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2009/06/29/fish_with_humanlike_teeth/ ).
-  Subh83 (talk | contribs) 03:39, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: What's not trivia is that they eat people's balls. >:| 184.64.85.218 (talk) 22:57, 10 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  That's a hoax.  See http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/P20 or http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/10/world/europe/scandanavia-swim-warning/index.html.  Kostaki mou (talk) 20:17, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  peculiarity of teeth 

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message: This article seems unnecessarily simplistic, and much information is omitted from the aquaria section, such as minimum recommended tank size.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.213.231.66 (talk) 00:42, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
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