Please do not release unwanted pet fish!

Rufescent tiger heron (Tigrisoma lineatum) dines on a Pygocentrus species.

Photo by: Edouard Paiva, Venezuela

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Effective December 4, 2015 this web site and its contents have been transferred to new owner and hobbyist Rob Caddick.

Congratulations on keeping "OPEFE" alive.

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For Grades K-12, college and university level study.

Enter and learn about the legendary and feared piranhas and caribes of South America. Read how this freshwater fish species became so feared that people would panic at just the meer mention of its presence in U.S. waters. Even throughout the world where the piranha is not native, it is feared.

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