This Special
Pet Fish Talk Interview features
George Schmidt who built and
owns the Piranha Realm Public Aquarium
in the Mills Mall near St. Louis,
Missouri.
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hear this interview,
which is about 33-minutes long and
packed full of interesting comments by
George Schmidt.
George Schmidt
has been an aquarist for
45-years. During that time he has built
many plywood aquariums and raised many
types of fish, including Piranhas,
Oscars, Uarus, Juruparis, Clown
Knifefish, Chocolate Cichlids, and many
others.
These fish are some 6" long
Piranha Fish showing good
color with bright orange on
their bodies and dark red
fins.
Piranha Realm Public
Aquarium has twelve 4000-gallon
aquariums that George built. Those
aquariums contain the following fish.
1.
Twenty-five
10"-12" Red
Belly Piranhas.
2.
Lake Malawi
Cichlids,
including Mbunas
and Haps.
3.
Central American
Cichlids.
4.
More Central
American
Cichlids.
5.
Asian Fish
6.
South American
Fish, including
Huge Red Tail
Catfish,
Leporinus,
Spotted Silver
Dollars,
Marmorata Pike
Cichlids,
Prochilodus, and
more.
7.
More South
American Fish,
including
Spawning Altum
Angels, Discus,
Cardinal Tetras,
Hatchet Fish,
Rummy Nose
Tetras, Gymnogeo
balzanii, and
more.
8.
West African
Fish
9.
Madagascar Fish
and Brackish
Fish
10.
Motoro Stingrays
11.
Gold Piranhas
and Black
Piranhas
12.
More South
American Fish,
including
Psitticums,
Uarus, Chocolate
Cichlids,
Chalceus, Silver
Dollars,
Bleeding Heart
Tetras,
Spectables, and
more ...
Shown above are some
of the 4000-gallon aquariums
in Piranha Realm. The
aquarium on the far right
contain the Red Belly
Piranhas.
This picture shows
one of the 4000-gallon
aquariums under
construction. You can see
the concrete blocks under
the aquarium, which will end
up weighing over 16-tons.
During the interview George
said the aquariums measure
about 16-feet from left to
right, 6-feet from front to
back, and 4 feet from top to
bottom.
These aquariums have lots of
decorations including large
rocks and tree branches, and
one aquarium even has a
large tree stump.
Over 40-species of fish have
spawned in these aquariums,
and many of the aquariums
have parent-fish defending
their fry. Some baby fish
are being raised in a
floating net.
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