Description

Also known as Common Silver Dollar, Pacu, Redhook, Redhook Macu, Redhook Metynnis, Red Hook Myleus, Redhook Silver Dollar, Silver Dollar.

Found in schools, in calm zones of main rivers, with lots of hanging vegetation cover, from the river banks.
They feed on plants.
Length - 41.5cm
Depth - ?m
South America - Amazon and Orinoco River basins

Popular Aquarium fish.
Related to Piranha's but these are strictly vegetarian!
Piranha's have a fearsome reputation (because of James bond 007) as a voracious predator that can strip flesh off bones in minutes, although they have razor sharp teeth they are in fact quite timid scavengers. Ref: https://www.fishbase.de/summary/Myloplus-rubripinnis.html