They can discharge up to 650 volts intermitently for an hour or more. Wouldn't this tun or kill any fish within a 10 foot radius, and Red Bellied Piranha being prone to cannibalism at times would shift their focus from the eel to eating their dead comrades, right? Maybe that's what the eels eat.
2006-06-26 17:13:11 · 3 answers · asked by Professor Armitage 7 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
Piranha is so fast when hunt and the eel don't have time to discharge.Piranha is an omnivore so it's not cannibal,and they are much more smarter than the eel to focus to the hunting target.The eel can't stun them,and finnaly the poor eel must swim away for its live or it's will be destroyed by the school of piranha.
2006-06-26 17:32:22 · answer #1 · answered by Hafiz W 1 · 3⤊ 1⤋
They live together in Venezuelan rivers, and they don't fight over prey. They tend to live on muddy bottoms in calm water and since pirañas live on clear water they don't overlap on real life. When agitated, it is capable of producing intermittent electrical shocks over a period of at least an hour without signs of tiring so this way they could defend themselves from predators like pirañas.
2006-06-28 15:10:08 · answer #2 · answered by pogonoforo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
650 volts is definitely going to kill
2006-06-26 17:28:10 · answer #3 · answered by 2feEThigh 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋