Tonight at 10:00 p.m.

http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/With-zebra-mussels-posing-a-threat-to-lakes-where-is--122273789.html


It looks like they are going to be talking about this very thing.

Saw it on the news tonight, this is Awful. Now how fast do these Zebra mussels multiply?

You can go from a dozen to several thousand in less than a year.

Do zerba mussles eat EVERYTHING!?!?! maybe we could throw some in white rock lake...eat up all those "dead bodies" that get dumped every year.

I am a member of SeaPlane Pilots Asso. On there site a new invasive mussel was found, Chinese Pond Mussel, in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. It is the fiest place to show up.

need to know:

http://texasinvasives.org/action/report_detail.php?alert_id=2

Thanks reeltexan. Very informative read.

[quote=Nophears]Hopefully our friendly freshwater water GASPERGOU. AKA: Freshwater DRUM, Perch, Channel & Blue cats will be able to control them. Every time I've cleaned Gaspergou I've found small clams in their stomach and I've also found small clams in the stomach contents of smaller Blues/Channels.

If they filter so much water to make it clear, it will decimate the Shad population that most All Bass & Catfish species rely upon to sustain.

To the recreational boat guys I've lived on a houseboat and it's already a maintenance nightmare dealing with a boat that stays in the water all the time, the Hull damage, water intake & engine damage will be astronomical.

We also have the invasive Talapia that were introduced to us in the 80's as a hardy "bait" before they discovered that they flourished in our beautiful texas climate.

I need a $1B grant from the government to do a lifelong study on the investigation to see if Tilapia will eat a Zebra Mussel... and I get to call it "Work research"

The Talapia in my ponds die when the water reach's around 55 Degrees in the winter. Are you talkin about another species of Talapia?

It just a matter of time. They WILL reach all of our lakes. It only takes one "infected" boat to transport. Not to mention our lakes are so low we will reach a point that we will have to start sharing water between lakes to sustain drinking water.

As for fish taking care of them. Not going to happen.....a zebra will actually pass directly through a blues digestive system and come out unscathed on the other end. Bluegill/drum will do there part but can only slow them down.

Sad but it's just a matter of time. We just have to do our part to keep our boats and trailers clean.

Add Ray Hubbard to the list! They found them last May when a boat from Texhoma was slipped for a few months at one of the marines. Way to go

Simple Laziness! Clean and dry you boats when hopping between lakes!

I wander if the Rio Grande Perch will keep the zebra out of the souther lakes?

Its not laziness its lack of education - the traveling ,mobile tourney crowd who trailer their boats all over the state are just as culpable as everyone else

Unless boats with carpeted bunk boards are allowed to dry for at least five days, zebra mussel larvae can exist in wet/damp carpeting where it does not dry completely between contact point with boat hull and carpeted board - this is a BIG problem

Livewells drawing in water from an infested lake and not BLEACHED between trips are another as the larvae exist in piping loops, leaking boats, bilge pumps, in short any water that circulates from a lake into a boat then expelled elsewhere are sources of infestation.


Frankly Zebra mussels are here to stay - no way you can put the genie back in the bottle.


Wait till white perch get to Texas

So whats the latest on Texoma?

millions of them in Eisenhower ramp and around the rocks around Highport.

Just like the Illegal aliens in Texas, just gonna be part of life.......

Actually there is a sheepshead. While living in New Orleans, I had a boat on Lake Pontchartrain which is salt water. We caught sheepshead around bridges. They have teeth like sheep and a similar face. Be careful, they do bite.

TPW has also noted in an interview in a Oklahoma News Cast that the "TPW due to the massive size of the lake, the TPW doesn't believe the Zebra Muscle has made little affliction thus far to Lake Tehoma".

they hate hot water and so far it looks like our summers keep em in check. this is good news for the smaller lakes because they are not as deep,get and stay hotter. this is not fact just observations but on our deep end they are thicker but upper ends not very many at all. time will tell.

We are dealing with regional common names again. Up in the midwest what they call a sheepshead is what we in the south call a freshwater drum and in east texas and in louisiana a gaspergou.
A true sheepshead is a type of porgy. The porgies are specialized for crushing clams, crabs and shrimp. So they have big buck teeth. Sounds to me like a good thing to have in a lake with too many mussels[clams actually].

Isn't a sheepshead saltwater? The one with the teeth anyway.

Channel 4 new last night reported no matter how bad drought gets in the future,no water will be taken from Texoma because of the Zebra Mussells.

http://fl.biology.usgs.gov/Nonindigenous_Species/ZM_Progression/zm_progression.html

Good article about the spread of zebra mussels by year...from 1986 when they first made their way into the USA, up until 2010...simply mouse over the years up top and it will show the locations with red dots...and give a little info about them at the bottom of each year.

What's the latest on these zebra mussles

The latest is they are going to release Zebra Mussel water from Lavon into Ray Hubbard. What's up with that?

I was at Texoma last Oct 2011 when the water was down, My family and I were camping in the state park, saw all those dead muscles on the rocks, half broken etc.. right when I was going to tell my kids to be careful and watch out for those sharp suckers, one of my kids cut their foot on them. Good size cut at that! I was amazed of how many were there on the bank score of rocks. Crazy!

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