Range – where does piranha live?
Habitat of piranhas
Piranhas prefer warm climates, so you will never find them in freezing bodies of water. These fish are widely distributed throughout the South American continent.
They live in rivers such as:
- Parana;
- Amazon;
- Uruguay;
- Orinoco;
- Essequibo.
- These fish are popular in Venezuela, Guyana, Bolivia, Uruguay, Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Colombia, and Paraguay.
Piranhas are freshwater, they occupy rivers, lakes, channels, and backwaters. They avoid sea water because they cannot reproduce in salt water.
Recently, cases of piranhas being discovered in the waters of our country and Europe have begun to occur. Of course, this happened, but this does not mean that the piranha multiplied and began to live in places where it had not been seen before. The reason for these exceptional discoveries is the negligence of those who kept piranhas in their home aquarium, and then decided to get rid of them by releasing them into the nearest body of water, without thinking that they were dooming the fish to inevitable death.
Piranha usually settles in places where there is a lot of fish for food, because... she is quite gluttonous. Hunting often takes place in shallow water or where there is a lot of silt at the bottom. The important conditions for them are that the water is well heated, fresh, there is enough oxygen in it, and there is also a lot of vegetation. Piranhas love waters with moderate, not fast currents. They sometimes swim into the surface of the sea, but do not stay there for long.
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