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Post by spotfin on Jan 9, 2013 21:42:40 GMT -5
Was talking to a coworker the other day that works in our Bangor office. He told me that recently a warden went into the pet store at the Airport Mall and "discovered" a tank with some piranha in it. The fish were of course confiscated and destroyed. Anyone been to this store recently and can confirm they were the real deal?
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Post by scoobnoob on Jan 10, 2013 7:12:00 GMT -5
It was probably the tank setup in Kokopeli's accross from Pet Pro. Last I knew thay had a Piranha tank with a fake skeleton in it. Petpro usually sets up the smaller tanks throughout the mall and helps maintain them though I don't know if they helped specifically with this one. I didn't know we couldn't have Piranha's either so I nevery really questioned it and can't confirm if they were really Piranhas. A quick google image search tells me they looked alot like Pirhana's and that they are illegal in Maine
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Post by spotfin on Jan 10, 2013 20:57:54 GMT -5
Who knows. Hope someone at least correctly identified them.
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Post by jstearn on Jan 13, 2013 20:43:48 GMT -5
I use to own two orange belley piranhas kinda off subject but I loved those fish even after one took a big chunk of my finger. I still have scar from it and this was 7 years ago. Wish we where allowed to own them.
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Post by scoobnoob on Jan 21, 2013 11:28:29 GMT -5
I went to the airport Mall yesterday. The Piranha tank at Kokopelli's has been drained, it has shallow water and I didn't go inside but it appeared to be a turtle setup. Adds some more validity to the suspicion.
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Post by pam0630 on Jan 21, 2013 12:16:47 GMT -5
whats the issue with piranha...
me and my ex used to have a beautiful orange belly in our tank..was a beautiful fish.....dont see any problems
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Post by ryansweatt2004 on Jan 21, 2013 13:06:36 GMT -5
The issue with piranha is that like many other tropical fish that you'd think could not survive the low water temps here in Maine, they are not on the Department of Inland fisheries unrestricted species list.
Basically its a long list of animal species that are allowed to be legally obtained and kept in the state of Maine. I'm not entirely sure what process they use to determine whether or not a species is a possible threat to our native species. In any case a prime example of a fish that is now illegal that can't survive Maine winters are the Jack Dempsey cichlids. Yet common Goldfish, a true cold water fish of the carp family that can survive and breed here in Maine waters are perfectly legal. Another hypocritical choice on the states part would be Koi carp. They are completely illegal yet we have their genetically same wild counter parts "Common carp" swimming free in the the entire Kennebec river drainage and connected tributaries because of legal introductions. Talk about warped laws!
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Post by scoobnoob on Jan 21, 2013 14:27:13 GMT -5
I was thinking about his, and hypothetically couldn't someone release a school in a small pond during summer...they might wreak a little havoc before dying off in the cold weather.
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