ok i know it is WAY off sbjects....but im watching national geographics...and there is a show about the snakehead fish...HOLY COW! these things are monsters...here is a pic
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/20...eries/invasive/

and a blog for more info
http://ngcblog.nationalgeographic.com/ngcb...ead_frenzy.html
they are saying they are breeding all over the east coast of US.... can live out of water for 3 days and "walk" on land...creepy! check it out!

Yikes that sounds wierd they can "walk" ! *Goes to read blog......careful where you tread...

that's scarey a big mouth with big teeth, help me

well...further into watching...they move on land as a snake would . its on national geographicas now...usa time...11:30pm....eastern...pretty interesting...they say they are breeding in my general area too! even more creepy!

i just watched that.
they're scary looking creatures and i'm so glad i normally don't go into lakes.

did it say that they were brought here by humans or did they migrate themselves? i missed the last few minutes of the show.

I also just watched it.

I used to see those little red striped snakeheads in the pet stores all the time. Their cute when their little.

yeah the last 5 mins stated that an asian americn confesed that he bought two illegally for an aliment stew for his sick sister and she got better by the time the fish arrived, so as tradition, he released them into a river for spiritiual reasons....~sighs~ see things like this is what leads to crazy things in our water. now that explains why at the customs boarders by they are so picky what u can bring into the US....these fish started out in asia..no ay they could have migrated all that way to the US....

yeah i thought the babies were adorable too, i wonder what if they just killed them all when they caught them.

it's sad to think about.

but could you really imagine keeping one of those giants in your house? i'd be constantly afraid of hearing a big crack and waking up to find the fish in bed with me.

haha. spooky.


and yeah, shari, i didn't think they could, i'm glad somebody confessed, at least. now they just have to find a way to control their populations, if it's possible at this stage.

they say they spawn on average 15,000 eggs 5 times a year....think about how many of them suckers u need to kill....on scientist killed off a whole pond of fish just to get rid of them and 4 years later they showed back up...this ws in a pond...now they are in the rivers o stopping them now. VA Tech is tracking the migrating patterns now

oh yeah i head that about the spawning, and was like oh my gosh.
that's a ton of fish in a very little amount of time.

i read that the same thing has been happening here in the great lakes, with lampreys?
it's aweful when you think about how many animals are already endangered of extinction because of people, here we go adding more.

I thought about buying one when they were available. But I knew that they grew larger than what I wanted to deal with.
It was interesting when they showed the baby snakeheads bit the goldfish in half. Then think, when the snakehead gets bigger you might be next.

haha. thanks for the visual, now i'm going to be having nightmare for a month and three days.


but when they ate that goldfish, ah i nearly cried. it was aweful. i hate the thought of live feeder fish, and people who get off to watching them suffer that way. not that everyone enjoys that, i know with certain fish you don't always have a choice, and in the wild of course, but the people who do it for the fun of it, make me super angry.

no kidding! some one on the show said they were keeping one and it broke the glass trying to get out...they have the natural instients to want to be free...think about waking up to a cracked empty tank, and the fish is MIA

I never cared to feed any of my fish other fish. I tried it a couple times but didn't like it. So I don't do it. But it's nature so seeing it doesn't bother me. Sometimes you don't have choice and goldfish are always available and cheap.

That was a 75 gallon tank that snakehead cracked. That's thick glass.

Not MIA. In your bed nibbling on you toes.

I've dreamed of owning a snake head for years now. I think they are one of the most gorgeous fish ever. Sadly they are illegal where I live so I am forced to continue dreaming.

Good plan but as others have said, it's probably too late now
Like most intorduced species, once they're present they're not going anywhere.

Very cool looking fish. I'd love to see one in a tank......not my backyard chasing the dog or something though!!

A snakehead was caught in a river in the UK recently.

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?i...mp;in_a_source=

It's scary to think of the deverstanting effect that this fish has on the envoroment, I really do hope that this is the only one that was released in the UK.