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Posts : 16094 Location : Mansfield, TX Favorite Fish: : African Cichlids of all kinds.
| Subject: Duo Pulls Piranha From NJ Lake 6/23/2011, 1:54 pm | |
| Duo Pulls Piranha From NJ Lake Mother and son catch a Piranha in Woodbury Heights Virginia Dredden and her son Ronald Meekins hoped to bond over a normal fishing day on the lake last Monday; the day quickly exceeded their expectations. Dredden cast her line into Glen Lake in Woodbury Heights, N.J., only to have it resurface with a Piranha along for the ride. Meekins, realizing that it was in fact a piranha, notified both the New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife and local police, according to the Gloucester County Times. Police arrived within thirty minutes and took the fish away; they currently have it on ice. Woodbury Heights Mayor Harry W. Elton Jr. and Larry Hajna, an official from the Fish and Wildlife Department, said that things like this happen all the time. “This happens from time to time,” Hajna said to the Times. “People buy the piranhas and keep it in a home aquarium and they get tired of it and they think they can release it in the wild.” Piranhas are not common in New Jersey, but local officials assure citizens they have nothing to worry about. http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Duo-Pulls-Piranha-From-NJ-Lake-124378879.html | |
| | | Ben Moderator
Posts : 1878 Location : Sandston, Virginia Favorite Fish: : Venustus and Catfish
| Subject: Re: Duo Pulls Piranha From NJ Lake 6/23/2011, 3:44 pm | |
| Yet another reason some people shouldn't keep fish. | |
| | | papasmurf Staff Sergeant
Posts : 175 Location : Waco, TX Favorite Fish: : Swallowtail Peacock
| Subject: Re: Duo Pulls Piranha From NJ Lake 6/23/2011, 4:35 pm | |
| I am worried that they could probably get a foothold in some parts of texas where the water stays warmer year round. I overheard a guy in a store (auto parts store) just a few weeks ago, bragging about having some piranha's to the clerk. Even though they are illegal, people will find a way to obtain them it seems. I just wish they would be more responsible and euthanize them humanely when they get too big or have a change of heart down the road instead of letting them go in public waterways. | |
| | | Addictedtofish Private
Posts : 29 Location : Camano Island WA Favorite Fish: : Altolamprologus Compressiceps and Calvus.
| Subject: Re: Duo Pulls Piranha From NJ Lake 6/23/2011, 5:00 pm | |
| I was just watching a re-run on Monster Quest about them and a guy in a LFS did a 5 day test on lowering the water temp in the tank from 75 down to 50 and kept records on the fish behavior. At 55 the fish would huddle together as if trying to absorb each others warmth, but by the time the temp was down to 50 them had lost all of there ability of stay upright. They were also doing some water temp tests in The lake of the ozarks where 9 different instances of piranha being caught over a 3 year period, they found there is a few spots where the water temp stayed 57 year around; warm enough for them to survive during the cold season. | |
| | | papasmurf Staff Sergeant
Posts : 175 Location : Waco, TX Favorite Fish: : Swallowtail Peacock
| Subject: Re: Duo Pulls Piranha From NJ Lake 6/23/2011, 7:01 pm | |
| I am sure it probably stays warm enough in south texas and parts of arizona/nevada. I have heard reports that there are severum living in arizona I believe. | |
| | | alan j t Major
Posts : 791 Location : reno nv Favorite Fish: : discus
| Subject: Re: Duo Pulls Piranha From NJ Lake 6/23/2011, 8:36 pm | |
| ya, warm enough, but could the pirahnas spawn in those waters? | |
| | | ornate12 Lieutenant Colonel
Posts : 1340 Location : New Iberia,Louisiana Favorite Fish: : Ornate Bichirs, Synodontis Angelicus, Filamentosus barb,
Aristochromis Christyi, Ptychochromis Grandidieri and all other Madagascar cichlids.
| Subject: Re: Duo Pulls Piranha From NJ Lake 6/23/2011, 8:56 pm | |
| Spawns in the summer, temps much higher . | |
| | | CajunGator Moderator
Posts : 5845 Location : New Iberia, Louisiana Favorite Fish: : Cichlids, WC Syn Petricola, Shellies, Festae, Mbu Puffers, Koi Angels, ABN, Piranha, Mermaids
| Subject: Re: Duo Pulls Piranha From NJ Lake 6/23/2011, 9:10 pm | |
| i promise i did not turn that fish loose...
heck i never been to new jersey, LOL
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| | | Kasshan Chief Wrnt. Off. 5
Posts : 519 Location : Modesto, CA Favorite Fish: : Kribensis
| Subject: Re: Duo Pulls Piranha From NJ Lake 6/24/2011, 9:06 pm | |
| aww, piranha got a bad rap, they arent blood thirsty. plus if u watch enough Discovery channel or Animal planet ; i saw a program once where the Amazonian region folk say only morons get bit by piranha. | |
| | | Meredith Chief Wrnt. Off. 4
Posts : 472 Location : Kingston, Missouri Favorite Fish: : As far as fresh water goes, it's Bettas!
For marine fish; Firefish, Cardinalfish, Gobies, Dragonets, and Sharks...
| Subject: Re: Duo Pulls Piranha From NJ Lake 6/25/2011, 10:53 am | |
| So, that WASN'T a community fish park?? My bad. | |
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