Dumping your Aquarium Contents, NOT!!

[steelhealr]

http/www.newsday.com/news/local/longisla...ll=ny-li-bigpix

 

[pica_nuttalli]

man that sucks. i love my cabomba/hornwort beacuse of its tenacity and tendancies to turn 2 inches into 2 feet in a little over a month. but i would hate to see that happen in one of my native lakes. and i don't think there's anything that'll eat it either.

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Pond plants tend to make great fertilizer when dried out and crushed up as i once found when i was cleaning one of the ponds out my mum has of duck weed and chucked all of it on the flower beds in the middle of summer, at least it you take the invasive plant out you can recycle it this way, maybe?

 

[afireinside]

man, who was the stupid person who did that?

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

man, who was the stupid person who did that?

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Don't ask me, plenty of people have caused major havoc in various ecosystems by releasing non native fish and other animals into habitats they wern't supposed to be in. Somtimes these people actually have a good but stupid/short sighted heart when they do these things believing the animal will be better off in the wild even if its not an enviroment its supposed in, or they simply can't face euthanising the animal for whatever reasons or are too lazy or embarrassed to take it back to the lfs they got it from etc- sure, im sure that koi karp will be happy in that lake terorizing all ther other fish and eating all their food etc .
A girl i used to know even released a goldifish into the sea once thinking it would be happy "being free" .

 

[fishman 1]

What annoys me is that certain species of fish are not allowed into the UK due to the possibility of them getting introduced into the water courses.

So because of a few idiots it spoils it for more serious hobbiests from keeping some species that they may be interested in.

It is a shame, some people do not think before they do stupid irrisponsible things such as putting non native fish in the rivers etc.

In fact it is best not to even move native fish from river to river etc. As this can spread disease. Some fish may look healthy but in fact be riddled with paracites etc.

 

[illusion54]

I've also heard that theres a similiar plant choking much of the ocean, its unfortunate what stupidity and laziness can combine together to destroy.

 

[rdd1952]

Since it's a tropical plant, I wonder if it will die off this winter when the lakes freeze. Probably not but that would definitely be good.

 

[mattbeau]

I'f they dredge te entire waterway, wouldnt that essentially change the chemistry by alot. death by weed or death by dreadge, that is the question

 

[qwikimpss]

Dredging it probably wouldnt help anyway. As many of us know it is propigated easily by cuttings! When you dredge a pond or lake you make a LOT of small cuttings. It would reduce the population....for a few months probably, not eradicate it, unless the went thru and got every last fragment of plant out. It only takes one bad apple to spoil a barrel.

 

[Synirr]

That's terrible!! This is the kind of thing ignorance gets you... people really ought to know better than to introduce non-native species into a habitat.

On the plus side, though... free cabomba!

 

[qwikimpss]

Free....but infested with god-knows-what!!!

 

[Mr Miagi]

man, who was the stupid person who did that?

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Its not always someone dumping it. It can arrive on ships also.

I've also heard that theres a similiar plant choking much of the ocean, its unfortunate what stupidity and laziness can combine together to destroy.

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That would be caulerpa taxifolia

 

[afireinside]

ya know, this i sort of on and off topic. in lake superior, they have a bunch of lamprays and zebra muscles there and they are not supposed to be there.

 

[pica_nuttalli]

free cabomba!

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heh, "free cabomba" is like saying "free tribbles" or "free guppies"...