Red Snakeheads

[pica_nuttalli]

Channa harcourtbutlerii (the Inle snakehead) is a great little charecter. It is one of the smallest Channa, fully grown at 5".
Get a stunning steel blue when adult, well recomended.
If you can find one that is...

i might have to smuggle one of those in from Canada one day!

--EDIT--
or not. just found this: http/fisc.er.usgs.gov/Snakehead_circ_1251/index.html

looks like customs might have better training/resources than Petsmart.

Ah! This is why I hate living here sometime... no cool fish! Especially here in Florida... it seems like every cool, large tropical fish is banned, because it has a possiblity of surviving in our waters... sigh.

although that document indicated that some of those species had been captured in Florida... you might want to do some looking around on the internet for where introduced populations have been found it's not illeagal to keep wild-caught introduced fish; you're doing your local ecosystem a favor

 

[T1KARMANN]

Channa harcourtbutlerii (the Inle snakehead) is a great little charecter. It is one of the smallest Channa, fully grown at 5".
Get a stunning steel blue when adult, well recomended.
If you can find one that is...

i might have to smuggle one of those in from Canada one day!

--EDIT--
or not. just found this: http/fisc.er.usgs.gov/Snakehead_circ_1251/index.html

looks like customs might have better training/resources than Petsmart.

Ah! This is why I hate living here sometime... no cool fish! Especially here in Florida... it seems like every cool, large tropical fish is banned, because it has a possiblity of surviving in our waters... sigh.

although that document indicated that some of those species had been captured in Florida... you might want to do some looking around on the internet for where introduced populations have been found it's not illeagal to keep wild-caught introduced fish; you're doing your local ecosystem a favor

thats why snakeheads are banned in the hotter states in the US because people have released them into the wild and they will have a big efect on the eco systerm

they are banned for a reason not just for fun

we have some bans on cold water fish hear in the UK and need moverment papers to move cold water fish within the EU but no inforcements on tropical fish that wont be able to survive in our water ways

thease rules are not just made up for fun

 

[geo7x]

Channa harcourtbutlerii (the Inle snakehead) is a great little charecter. It is one of the smallest Channa, fully grown at 5".
Get a stunning steel blue when adult, well recomended.
If you can find one that is...

i might have to smuggle one of those in from Canada one day!

--EDIT--
or not. just found this: http/fisc.er.usgs.gov/Snakehead_circ_1251/index.html

looks like customs might have better training/resources than Petsmart.

Ah! This is why I hate living here sometime... no cool fish! Especially here in Florida... it seems like every cool, large tropical fish is banned, because it has a possiblity of surviving in our waters... sigh.

although that document indicated that some of those species had been captured in Florida... you might want to do some looking around on the internet for where introduced populations have been found it's not illeagal to keep wild-caught introduced fish; you're doing your local ecosystem a favor

as T1K said, its not a laughing matter, and the ban was brought on because of people being irresponsible and releasing them into the wild.

I think it's pretty hypocritical how people moan about the ban and how stupid people were to release them into the wild, and then go and do just as irresponsible things like you have just suggested.

 

[Maximus]

I thought i read somewhere on here that
if you catch a snakehead in a local river ect.
that you must kill it and are not allowed to
re-release it. And if you catch one and want to
keep it you have to get a permit or something
like that?!

Dont have a go, its just what i read on another thread lol

 

[pica_nuttalli]

heh, you guys must have never read a single one of my posts about introducing fish to local ponds i'm a huge opponent to the release of fish into the wild; if you take it out and put it in a tank, that's where it needs to end the rest of its days.

but mmmm, i want a teeny snakehead now that i've seen pics. i may go off and do some canal fishing myself! catch a few dozen, pick the prettiest one and cull the rest. i hear they're a delicacy in Asia. (i fail to see how removing an eco-unfriendly introduced specimen from the wild to a tank is "irresponsible".)

 

[T1KARMANN]

if you can just go and catch a snakehead in the river then the damage to the eco systerm has already been done if their are that many large snakeheads around

if its young snakeheads you are catching thats even worse as it means they are reproducing

 

[pica_nuttalli]

if you can just go and catch a snakehead in the river then the damage to the eco systerm has already been done if their are that many large snakeheads around

if its young snakeheads you are catching thats even worse as it means they are reproducing

Like I said, that governement publication specifically lists some of the species as having established themselves in Florida. Hence the blanket ban on all snakehead imports, even that cute little species from Sri Lanka that couldn't possibly survive in the US.

That's why I teased Invader about just going out and catching a snakehead if he really wanted one. He lives in south Florida; snakeheads live in south Florida. It's a win-win situation.

--EDIT--
ohhhh, i suddenly see why you guys were all over my case. i meant "look to see where introduced populations have been found in Florida." after i found that lovely USDA website, i knew that smuggling was a lost cause since it wouldn't take two seconds for a customs' official to look up a few pictures and say "yep, that's a snakehead."

as for the relative risk of smuggling fish across the Canadian border: its probably pretty small, to tell the truth. while it has been a few years since I visited, I doubt that there's been that much of an increase in the overall level of security at all of the drive-through checkpoints. plus, I imagine that most US customs official aren't just super-concerned about "fish smugglers" (funny to think about ) which is why they placed a blanket ban on all snakeheads--it's easier than training people to tell the different species apart. i bet that if you really wanted to, a person could easily smuggle across a juvie Asian arowana by labling it as a silver (the latter being legal in the US). however, i wouldn't attempt it myself due to the incredibly high price of the Asian arowanas. the pleasure of owning a red-gold just isn't worth a couple thousand bucks plus the risk of several more thousand dollars in fines and a euthanized fish should you get caught.

 

[T1KARMANN]

just get a large bottle of water put the fish in it and drive throw customs oops sorry im no smuggler