piranhas found in florida

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What triggers idiots to release their pets into the wild?

I would have to wonder how much propoganda in pet stores at the point of sale might help reduce pets getting released.
 
kdrun76;3797232; said:
What triggers idiots to release their pets into the wild?

I would have to wonder how much propoganda in pet stores at the point of sale might help reduce pets getting released.
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I think the idiots released piranhas into the waterways because they dont want to be caught since they kept illegal fish if thats case.
 
MN_Rebel;3797932; said:
I think the idiots released piranhas into the waterways because they dont want to be caught since they kept illegal fish if thats case.
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Understood, but from a "we need to protect the environment more than we need to prosecute some one who possesses an illegal" stand point....

Lets say I had a fish legally in KS and moved to FL where it wasn't legal to keep any more. Now my fish is too big for my tank and I need a new home for it... and oh crap I have an illegal pet... eh just put it in this lake. Its an easy scenario to see happening.

My opinion would be: make it perfectly legal to turn your pet over to an authoritative figure . You can't care for it any more, let them do with it as is needed. (Chances are 99.99% that euthanization will follow.) But having a legal place to dispose of your illegal pet might help reduce some of the wild releases. Even if it only stops one, its better than none.
 
i live in montana and they have tryed to ban piranhas because they are saying there is a chance they could live in hot spring.
 
MN_Rebel;3797184; said:
I was never said that they will kill humans, however the piranha CAN bite humans especially the nesting time. Therefore the piranha may attack humans but not for food.
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That is true, but wont most fish attack a human that comes near its nest?
 
I gotta say that picture is one of the roundest and fattest red belly I've ever seen. Usually the bottom of fish isn't so round on all those I've seen or that fat...must be all the fried fish.
 
"It was no small task, because, as a side effect, the poison also killed every other fish living in the pond."

Wow. Just, wow.
 
if your you want a species that extinguishes to other it puts plecostomus (infiernillo, mexico), snakeheads(queensland) and overalls perches of the nilo (victoria lake).
The piranha its feed for peakock bass, arapaima, trahairas, and more fishes.
 
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