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If it was a rbp it is highly unlikely that someone swimming is going to be attacked unless they have a severe cut and are bleeding.

Red belly piranhas are one of if not the most skittish fish I have ever owned.
They get even more nervous when in small groups (I know just because 2 were found that doesn't mean there can't be more).

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lukester825;3632697; said:
Ha, i know piranha can bite the **** out of you, but this is not the absolute worst thing that could happen.
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You are absolutely correct. The worst thing that could happen is being chomped by an Alligator..or alligator snapping turtle...or water moccassin...or an american crocodile...or plenty of other dangerous native species that could be in that very pond. Piranha would be the least of your issues. Even so, thats not really the point. Your point was that they could out-compete the native species, but you haven't commented about the great pile of dead natives or the (newly) dead ecosystem shown in the video...
 
all right! i bet $100 it was a PACU! ...anyone? and that peacock bass was BIG! but still, if it was a pirahna and the lake flooded the population would spread. but still the rotananone was a little overkill... they said the pioson wouldnt kill the birds... but what about mussels? turtles? shrimp? crayfish?
 
snakeguy101;3631831; said:
two RBP's were found in a lake so the FWC dumps toxins into it to kill ALL of the fish in that lake.
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WHAT Retrards! Who would do that
 
JakeH;3632664; said:
Scare people away from what, though? Swimming in some random Florida pond while on vacation? Anybody dumb enough to go in there with all the alligators would be lucky to get only a piranha bite! Thats just natural selection at its best... If you're dumb enough to swim in there, you shouldn't be allowed to pollute our gene pool anyway! Florida's policies are so ridiculous already. At the rate they're destroying native habitats, soon all that will be left is cockroaches. Besides, aren't piranha already illegal there? I know they are here in TX, so why wouldn't they be in FL?
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I am not trying to say that people should or would swim or that it would even make an impact on tourism but they are claiming that the pythons have scarred away nearly 30% of the tourism in the everglades (personally, I think that it was the economy, not the snakes) but it shows how clueless some of these people are.
 
JakeH;3632769; said:
You are absolutely correct. The worst thing that could happen is being chomped by an Alligator..or alligator snapping turtle...or water moccassin...or an american crocodile...or plenty of other dangerous native species that could be in that very pond. Piranha would be the least of your issues. Even so, thats not really the point. Your point was that they could out-compete the native species, but you haven't commented about the great pile of dead natives or the (newly) dead ecosystem shown in the video...
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So, are you saying that sacrificing one POND to potentially save the native fish population of Florida isn't worth it?

And there are alligators, crocodiles, fish, and snakes in the amazon that eat piranhas, but they still reproduce and gain numbers, so that point about piranhas getting wiped out by florida's natural predators isn't valid.
 
I really hope they didn't do that to prevent someone from being bit. The part that really bothers me is the fact that they really think a chemical toxin like that will have no other effect then killing the fish. That "fish killer" probably wiped stuff out of the ecosystem they can't restock. I realize the effects an invasive species can have but I have to agree that this was a knee jerk reaction made a little prematurely. I doubt that anyone will be fishing there for a long time.
 
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