NEVER release an aquarium fish into the wild.

[ArshadOscar]

Okay, in my country, there is only non-native species..and most of them are invasive species, such as carp,snakehead,tilapia,bass,swordtail,guppies,mosquito fish etc.
I love my fish but if they get too big, I made a choice about releasing them. I don't plan on selling or giving them to strangers.
But still, what do you think i should do? keep or realease?

 

[HungryMonster]

Yes, that’s true. I totally agree with you.

 

[Shaunb]

Should never do it. Could be disastrous to native species.

 

[lovetofish]

i have read that in tahoe, some people released their goldfish into the wild, and the goldfish turned into monster sizes and were destroying the inivorment.

 

[LiLye]

I met a guy who had to call fish and wildlife to euthinize his snakehead cause he had to get rid of it and didnt want to sell it for he didnt trust someone not to release it.

Then another guy joined in and said his friends were scuba diving in a lake up northern canada and they swear by their graves they came face to face with a snakehead. Oh I wish I remembered what lake he said.

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[altumz]

i wonder if anyone would complain it someone releases rays and asian aro's to their local ponds and lakes and it becomes invasive.

 

[Ash]

They probably would considering its invasive and would affect the natural wildlife.

Releasing non-native specise into the wild should never be an option. So many people on here complain about the laws keeping them from getting fish they would love to be able to keep - well you can thank the people on this thread who release them for those laws - they are the reason these laws are created (obviously not talking about endangered/threatned species with this comment as thats a different ball game). This site does not condone releasing of wildlife and it is not something that you should do. It does affect the natural wildlife of many areas and can lead to changes in ecosystems.

 

[phikhanhs123]

Argree on you with this

 

[blindkiller85]

I recently started fishing a new lake in the area that I knew was there, but never had access to. Come to find out someone had released a few common pleco's in to it, and a few tilapia and they aren't native to this lake. Now there are about 10 of them that we see when feeding the fish that have heads roughly 4-6 inches wide and 14-30 inches long. Talk about egg eating SOB's. When they started coming around about 2 years ago the wild florida shiners were thriving. Now they are very uncommon to see entirely. The tilapia are having a hard time coming around thankfully, probably because of a large and thriving bass population (my buddy caught an 11lb and I've caught two 5 lb) in a ~20 acre lake. Only 2 very large ones and 3-4 smaller ones are seen on average.

 

[MN_Rebel]

Ponds and metro lakes in Twin Cities of MN have some big goldfish and koi carps. They changed the water quality to poor and muddy enough to makes things hard for most natives.