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(01-17-2018, 02:28 AM)TKUHL Wrote: The Difference Between a Piranha & a Pacu. ... They have basically the same shape and coloring, which often leads to pacus being confused for piranha. These fish are distant cousins, but they are different in many key ways; if you run into one in the wild, hope it's a pacu.

Ah, Pacu!

Yes, the omnivorous (though they generally eat just plants) version of a pirahna; they actually are Characins (like Pirahna) but indeed, are not part of the Pirahna family (unless its changed, that would be the Serralsmus {sp?} family).

They are just as active in terms of swimming speed and such, but they not nearly as aggressive, for obvious reasons.

I'm hoping to do an Amazon trip (fishing lol) in the next decade and I would love to catch me a few!