Video of a person releasing Midas

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He caught it in a canal in Florida and then let it go, back into the same canal. Pity they're introduced there but I used to do the same when I lived in Hawaii. I'm not going to euthanize every non-native I catch.
 
Lots of non natives here in florida, our climate makes it easy for such aquaria fish to populate.
 
he fished that?

haha. I thought he took it from his tank and threw it in there.

So I thought it was bad to release these guys. And it's been done in FL. So how is it now? What damages have these guys done? Seems like everythings ok and folks go on fishing trips for cichlids as a pass time. So what harms have these cichlids done to the environment?
 
I love it! We treat our fish like they live in an operating room and here's a guy pulls a hook out of it's mouth, a fly lands on it and drops it's onto a submeregd concrete step in a filthy canel and if one of us posted a picture of that in fish in our tank we'ed be fawnning all over it. What are we doing? That's funny!
 
the animal guy;4088384; said:
he fished that?

haha. I thought he took it from his tank and threw it in there.

So I thought it was bad to release these guys. And it's been done in FL. So how is it now? What damages have these guys done? Seems like everythings ok and folks go on fishing trips for cichlids as a pass time. So what harms have these cichlids done to the environment?
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You'll get mixed responses, I feel the ecosystems adapt to house these guys. They say they lessen our native species by stealing territory and nesting areas. I feel like it hasn't had much if any of an effect. I have always caught plenty of largemouth and the sort, the only thing I can say is after the cold spell this winter a lot of non natives perished and I have been seeing more warmouths than ever. The main problem is when I used to go fishing I used to catch lets say 2 mayans, 4 pbass, and 6 lmb on an average day and now I catch 6 lmb and roughly 1 mayan or 1 warmouth. But now there are no more peacock bass this far north (only in miami, this is also where the midas such as this are located) Up her we had pbass, oscars, jaguars, mayans, tilapia, plecos, and clown knifes. Even still mayans, tilapias, and plecos seem pretty numerous although not as common. pbass, oscars, jags, and clown knives seem non existent up here now; some say for the better. Pbass were here to control the non native expansion of such fish as tilapia, which I have seen more of them than ever since the cold spell so hopefully pbass can make their way back up her to recontrol the population.
 
the animal guy;4088384; said:
he fished that?
So I thought it was bad to release these guys. And it's been done in FL. So how is it now? What damages have these guys done? Seems like everythings ok and folks go on fishing trips for cichlids as a pass time. So what harms have these cichlids done to the environment?
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Take a biology/Ecology class. Called invasive species. If there is a NATIVE fish that has the same niche has NON-NATIVE cichlids, then that will affect the population of the NATIVE species.

That's why there's that HR bill ,that most MFK members don't like, to address this problem.
 
dude they kill native species, ya ever go fishing for bass? large mouths are a good time to catch, but most cichlids will kill out of a large mouth. it will mess up the natural balance of your eco system.
 
Aquanero;4088415; said:
I love it! We treat our fish like they live in an operating room and here's a guy pulls a hook out of it's mouth, a fly lands on it and drops it's onto a submeregd concrete step in a filthy canel and if one of us posted a picture of that in fish in our tank we'ed be fawnning all over it. What are we doing? That's funny!
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haha, its all what youre used to i guess, people keep these fish as exotics, when they are no longer exotic people have a different view of them, but I find all fish cool.
I'm not exactly sure what you mean but I believe the answer to your question is that in natural bodies of water the beneficial bacteria is so much greater that fish can recover much faster from wounds and mistreatment, while in tanks we can only reproduce that in scale, but life expectancies are similar because there is less threat in a tank.
 
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