Piranha at Peach Bottom?

[wgmiller]

http://ulocal.wgal.com/_Piranha-At-Peach-Bottom-Leave-Comments-Below/photo/4598429/62692.html

I'm not sure what to think of that fish... :-o

 

[Fishidiot]

Actually, this isn't all that uncommon. A few years ago several turned up in Lake Marburg. Aquarium enthusiasts release 'em into the wild. They die off with the onset of cold weather.

 

[gfen]

Looks too big to be a red-bellied, I think that's a pacu.

Both members of the same family, pretty much look the same except a pacu gets to mammoth size and only has flat teeth for crushing nuts and berries, as its not a serious carnivore like its cousin pirahana.

 

[Gone4Day]

I'd say gfen is right, its a pacu. Below is a picture of one I caught from the Parana river in Argentina last year. Check out the
choppers on that thing. They're delicious by the way. Being a
tropical/sub-tropical fish, I doubt they have much of a chance in PA
waters.

 

[sandfly]

they get them around trenton too. seems they think they will survive in the delaware..

 

[MattBoyer]

Gone4Day wrote:
Being a tropical/sub-tropical fish, I doubt they have much of a chance in PA
waters.

Unless somehow there was a source of warm water all year round.

Boyer

 

[Spyder20oz]

Are you supposed to blind them by popping their eye balls??

Look at IMG_0894

 

[mystillwater]

nothing with teeth that nice could survive near trenton

 

[osprey]

Like at Brunner island or Peach bottom , warm water releases from the cooling towers , have gone over there in the winter and it's like bathwater also years ago something that looked like a big bluegill got out and the commish was electroshocking them back out , this was at Brunner island 80's