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Snake heads are being banded from fish stores. Any one here know about this? People have been puting them in lakes and ponds and its destroying ecosystems. They can servive out of the water for 3 days and they can breath air. So if you have one your lucky cuz you cant get them anymore.

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Redwopman

I didnt know that you can even buy them at an lfs.

posted at the smallchitchat forum..
http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/07/20/alien.fish.ap/index.html

Originally posted by redwopman:
Snake heads are being banded from fish stores. Any one here know about this? People have been puting them in lakes and ponds and its destroying ecosystems. They can servive out of the water for 3 days and they can breath air. So if you have one your lucky cuz you cant get them anymore.

I am fine with being banned, because I like fishing and I wouldnt want non-native species to kill of the good native species. Also snakeheads are being banned in other countrys too, I think I saw somebody write that they were banned from New Zealand. It sucks that people have to be dumb and release their fish and ruin it for everyone else...

Are they saltwater or freshwater. I guess that it doesnt matter because they dont breathe underwater.

Yup im with you on that one. I enjoy Fishing very much and its a shame that there baning the fish over some stupid kid that didnt want them and through them into a river or lake. Most of the time these damn fish sellers at lfs and other places arnt clear when it comes to selling the fish. If the fish gets large they should tell that to the customer. And have it clearly labeled on there max lenght.

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Redwopman

There fresh water but i wouldnt put it pass them to survive in salt. I dont mean that they only breath air i jsut meant that they can breath air for like 3 days intill they dry up.

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Redwopman

About the LFS selling fish with wrong length. Here, where I live walmart sells Red Bellie Pacu and the max size says 10 inches, it's all about the money to them. I think that the reason they sell pacu is because they look like pirahna and people who are new to the aquaria hobby dont know that they actually get 22+ inches.

Can snakeheads actually survive in saltwater? I didnt think so...

i hope they do get banded, cause im so tried of hearing about them on the news, some idiot around baltimore MD released a breeding pair of snakeheads in a local pond and they destroyed every thing in the pond! so now people r setting up traps to catch the snakeheads. the other day i saw the LFS was selling snakeheads and i was kinda mad at them!

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Brian

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what's a snake head? Over in australia we have a problem like this except not with snake heads, with gold fish, well, european carp. it's in all our major river systems, and if you catch one you have to just kill it and bury it. There is a company now too called "charlie carp", which gets thousands of carp from the river systems and makes plant fertiliser out of them... it's great stuff!

http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/07/20/alien.fish.ap/index.html

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