The Life Aquatic

So many NAS Species alerts came up today, I thought maybe someone dumped the contents of his entire fishtank near Big Branch Bayou in Louisiana. Turns out a fish farm sprung a leak or two:

• goldfish (Carassius auratus)
• jaguar guapote (Cichlasoma managuense)
• convict cichlid (Cichlasoma nigrofasciatum)
• koi (Cyprinus carpio)
• black tetra (Gymnocorymbus ternetzi)
• red rosey fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas)
• green pufferfish (Tetraodon fluviatilis)
• green swordtail (Xiphophorus helleri)
• southern platyfish (Xiphophorus maculatus)

In some of the above cases, several specimens were collected at the site, and at some sites the fish were noted as being established. The reports don't indicate who the potential culprit was or how this happened.