[King Bait Co.]

Spike I have been bit by a snakehead. It wasn't in the wild I was fish setting for a freind while he was moving. I used to raise pirannas when I was in my teens. I would resale them back to the fish store when they got to be 6" to 8". Well needless to say mister snakehead didn't make to many freinds in the with ten black pirannas. He made it a whole 10 seconds. Well back to the thread I think if they were to get tropical fish breeders involed they might be able throw a few ideas that may help. If your into odd fish that you keep in a tank they are comming out with cross breed fish. I think if some of thoes people that do this and wildl fish experts would get together they could make a fish that would eat the eggs of these trash fish we speak of. They could make the new not be able to reproduce. It would take a while to get them thined down but it would put a dent on them I do belive maybe not destroy them but it would be a start. Here is a picture of my hybrid fish I have. They are called Blood Parrot hybrids. They are crossed between sevrumns(not sure if thats spelled right) and red devils. They do come in 10 to fifteen colors. Their is only about three true colors the rest are dyed. Mine are a true orange. They are a nasty tempered fish but the don't reproduce most of the time they will eat their own eggs but you can tell their bad from the get go. Their have been a few cases were they have but its only 1 in 12,000 that will. If they were to be a bright color then they also would get eaten by natural fish which would help control them if some were to reproduce. Not many gold fish make it in lakes a few but its rare to see one. I think the snakehead problem started when a man bought some to make a soup for his sick relative but they got better. Then their custom was to relase the fish to pay a tribute or something like that. He did admit to doing it and gave that reson for doing so. I belive the show is on the History Channel I wanna say its Monsterquest that told about the snakehead problem. The fish crossing is just an idea that may be a little diffrent but it might work.