# Gambasia Affini vs. Snakehead

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gambasia-affini-vs-snakehead/316436>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 10, 2005, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gambasia-affini-vs-snakehead/316436 "2005-08-10T14:05:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2005, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gambasia-affini-vs-snakehead/316436/1 "2005-08-10T14:05:32Z")

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Who would win?  
In this corner, a [Snakehead](http://www.dnr.state.md.us/fisheries/fishingreport/snakehead.html) so hated that even PETA wants to kill them all;

In this corner, the snakehead’s weight in the much hated, native fish displacing [G. affini](http://www.doc.govt.nz/Conservation/002~Animal-Pests/Pest-Fish-(Freshwater)/Gambusia-(formerly-known-as-mosquito-fish).asp)

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**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2005, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gambasia-affini-vs-snakehead/316436/2 "2005-08-10T14:20:51Z")

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I really thought this thread was going to be about Mafia versus traditional Chinese control of the illegal immigrant trade.  
But if I gotta pick, I go with the snakehead. If his lake gets too crowded with the little bastards, he just gets out and walks to another freaking lake. Like some sort of twisted submarine urban-ring exercise.

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**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2005, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gambasia-affini-vs-snakehead/316436/3 "2005-08-10T20:37:54Z")

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My money’s on the snakehead. They’re ornery creatures and I’m assuming that the “killer guppies” don’t act in concert.

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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2005, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gambasia-affini-vs-snakehead/316436/4 "2005-08-10T21:02:01Z")

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> [@ShibbOleth](#):
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> I’m assuming that the “killer guppies” don’t act in concert.

They try really, really, really hard to eat everything before the other guy can. Not sure if that counts as concert or not. 🙂