jestep Posted September 26, 2011 Share Posted September 26, 2011 http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/texas/piranha-caught-in-suburban-houston-lake This is the sort of crap that gives the aquarium hobby a really bad name. Even though Pirahna's aren't as dangerous or aggressive as most would like to believe they're one of those stigma species that just sounds bad no matter what the facts about them are. News like this is the kind of thing that leads to further regulation. If you can't keep a fish, you're far better off killing them than releasing them. Sad but don't ruin this hobby because you bought a fish that you cant keep. Just a rant... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timfish Posted September 26, 2011 Share Posted September 26, 2011 http://www.kxan.com/...an-houston-lake . . . Just a rant . . . I'll second your rant! I am dumbfounded sometimes by what people ask me to get them just so they can brag about it to their friends and I know once the novelty wears of in a couple of months the animals will die of neglect at best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bige Posted September 26, 2011 Share Posted September 26, 2011 I have owned "illegal" species before but I am too resonsible to dump them in a lake or even get rid of them at all. Its people like that that make it so responsible people can't keep them. I just think it is so strange to get a caiman or pirana and just dump it when you don't want it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wa1tx Posted September 27, 2011 Share Posted September 27, 2011 This is the reason why there are pythons decimating the Everglades. Irresponsible pet owners. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Long Posted September 27, 2011 Share Posted September 27, 2011 Just for kicks. I live a block from Lake Travis and found a 5ft alligator in our park (3months ago). Not sure how it got there but was fresh kill. Old pic of the LT gator w/ a neighbor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jestep Posted September 27, 2011 Author Share Posted September 27, 2011 That's crazy. I've seen people in in Texas trying to find FW stingrays and pirarucu (coolest FW fish ever by the way) not even knowing they're illegal because they can both survive in much of texas waters. Wouldn't it feed nice to step on a 2 - 3ft poisonous stingray while wading in a local river. But, it was so cute when it was only 3"... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benny Posted September 28, 2011 Share Posted September 28, 2011 That is cool someone else has seen a gator in lake Travis. I saw one last year while night fishing about that size. Was swimming around the bottom where we had our flood lights pointed, on the northern side of Hudson bend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caferacermike Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 Man you peeps all griping about other hobbyists not being responsible and what not, how can you be so sure it wasn't ballast water from some sort of trans Atlantic shipping freighter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jestep Posted October 3, 2011 Author Share Posted October 3, 2011 Not quite clear, you're suggesting a freight ship had a freshwater ballast of piranhas and alligators, and they somehow got 300 miles inland? I can agree that there may not be a scientific method of proving a hobbyist let them go in a lake, but I can't see any other plausable explanation for it. It's pretty well accepted that aquarium keepers let their fish and plants lose into native bodies of water when they can't keep them. Just around Austin, common pleco's, water lettuce, and water hyacinth are wrecking most of the local river systems. On that note common pleco's shouldn't even be allowed as 99/100 people that buy them do not have a tank large enough. Florida is having a massive Hydrillia problem that's directly been linked to aquarists in the 1960's, and their reefs are being wrecked by non-native lionfish. Aquarists are directly responsible for major devistation from releasing their unwanted plants and animals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caferacermike Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 Not quite clear, you're suggesting a freight ship had a freshwater ballast of piranhas and alligators, and they somehow got 300 miles inland? Yes. Ok so was being sarcastic, loosen up a little. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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