Discussion -- Releasing Pets into the Wild
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They tried the same thing here....half ran one way out onto a the country's most major highway and were squashed, the other half ran off the cliffs on the other side and plunged hundreds of feet to the rocks below.Lobo. said:
..and Florida is so much worse...they now have almost as many introduced species of fauna as native species....burmese pythons, water monitors and Nile monitors are breeding in the everglades and canal systems, and you can catch every fish from oscars and pacu to clown knives and bichirs in local waters.fishcatch22 said:
I was at my grandparants in October fishing off a bridge and caught a box turtle. The poor thing would not have lasted another week.(It was the last warm week of the year. Luckily I got the hook out without hurting it any more and took it to the LFS. I wonder how it is now...
Where in Orange COunty do you live (north, south...) because that's where I live and I've never heard of "wild" koi or giant shelled turtles! Wow!WeeNe858 said:
box turtles are temperate animals that hibernate in the winter. it could have easily survived.fballguy said:
was it an eastern box turtle or something? in that case, you did the right thing.
I don't know my turtles very well, so I don't know. I do know it was a box turtle though. Either way it was not a native turtle and should not have been there.
I told my uncle about it and he said you have to be careful because sometimes people catch big snapping turtles while fishing. He said one time he caught a 2 footer! I would be scared to bring that thing close to me. The last thing I want when I'm fishing is a 2 foot snapping turtle getting pissed off at me.
I told my uncle about it and he said you have to be careful because sometimes people catch big snapping turtles while fishing. He said one time he caught a 2 footer! I would be scared to bring that thing close to me. The last thing I want when I'm fishing is a 2 foot snapping turtle getting pissed off at me.
i think they are in a few more citys then long beach. i am 5 miles or so away from long beach and there is a pack that used to live in my high school. i have seen fish that dont belong in almost every park lake around.Evan214 said:
i think its something that more people needs to be informed of. its not only people putting fish into environments that they dont belong. Joe125 was telling me in fl that the local gov is stocking the lakes with non native fish.
I wouldn't so much blame rogue carp and goldfish on aquarists as I would blame them on fishermen who buy a dozen or two for live bait and then dump the leftovers into the water afterward because they don't have anything else they can do with them. That is how a lot of carp and goldfish end up taking over reservoirs and other bodies of water. That's certainly what happened there at the reservoir in our local town. Nowadays, you have to go through the carp and the alligator gars to get any good fishing down there... : /
Also as for talk of turtles... the local public aquarium here has an alligator turtle who's head is LITERALLY as big as mine!!! O___O;;;
