Killer Fish
Feb 21st, 2006 at 2:44 pm by Susie
One of my friends wrote me after reading my post about the snakeheads in the Delaware River:
My sister’s husband … had 2 of those suckers in a huge fish tank (it was built into a wall of their house). Don’t remember what they ate, but it had to be live. They tried to donate them to a local pet shop & even a zoo, but they’d gotten too big and no one could figure out how to move them. They were at least 2 feet long, maybe longer.
The male got so aggressive he eventually killed the female. Then he would “pace” back and forth across the tank to get momentum to leap out of the tank. They put bricks on top, but still came home a couple of times to find it on the floor. He finally died during one of his escape attempts.
They should be trying harder to get rid of these critters … they’ll do some serious damage in an area where they’re at the top of the food chain!
will ship you up some gators this spring…that should do it.
They’re breeding rapidly in the Potomac River near DC now despite many attempts to get rid of them.
Maybe the Japanese have a deliciouse sauce to make them a new food craz!