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Pictures of Fish Dojo Loach Pictures and Dojo Loach Fishes Kind

Dojo Loach is a freshwater fish of loach family and native to Asia. It is very popular as an aquarium fish throughout the world. Dojo loach is also known by an alternate name Weather Loach due to their ability to detect changes in barometric pressure at the time of likely storms. Dojo loach is a hardy fish that can live in poor quality water and can also survive out of water for some time. Besides being popular aquarium fish, Dojo Loach is also a common food fish in East Asia, where they are grown in large scale through fish farming.

Dojo loach is a slender and eel-like fish that can grow up to 30cm (1 feet) long. They come in various colors ranging from yellow to olive green and lighter brown or grey. Their mouth is surrounded by three sets of barbels, which are used to sift through silt or pebbles to locate their food. Besides, they also use the barbels to to dig under gravel and sand to hide them in case of threats from their predators. Dojo loach is a bottom-dwelling scavenger and feeds mainly on on algae and other organic materials and small aquatic creatures.

Pictures of Fish Dojo Loach Pictures and Dojo Loach Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Dojo Loach Pictures and Dojo Loach Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Dojo Loach Pictures and Dojo Loach Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Dojo Loach Pictures and Dojo Loach Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Dojo Loach Pictures and Dojo Loach Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Dorado Pictures and Dorado Fishes Kind

Dorado is a surface dwelling ray-finned fish native to offshore temperate, tropical and subtropical waters throughout the world. They are known by many other names such as ‘Mahi-Mahi’ (in Hawaiian), dolphin-fish, calitos, maverikos or lampuki (Maltese). Despite dolphin-fish being a common name, dorado is a fish and not mammal like dolphin. Dorado is one of the fastest-growing and fast-swimming fish, with a top speed of about 50 knots or 93 kmph.

Dorados generally live under a depth of over 1000 feet. Their average size is 7-13 kg and rarely exceed 15 kg in weight. Average lifepsan of dorados is 4-5 years. Dorados have a compressed body with long dorsal fins extending almost all over the length of their body. They come in some of the most dazzling colors such as golden on the sides and bright blue and green on the sides and back. Dorado often changes its color when removed from water and finally fading to a muted yellow-grey upon its death. They feed on flying fish, crabs, squids, mackerels, crustaceans and other small fish. They are highly sought-after fish as game fish and for other commercial purposes.

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Pictures of Fish Dorado Pictures and Dorado Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Dorado Pictures and Dorado Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Dorado Pictures and Dorado Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Dorado Pictures and Dorado Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Electric Ray Pictures and Electric Ray Fishes Kind

Electric Rays are known for generating an electrical discharge ranging from 8-200 volts depending upon the species. They use the electrical discharge for catching their prey and also as a defense against their predators. Electric rays have been known humans since ages. Ancient Greeks often used electric rays for providing relief from the pain of childbirth and headaches.

Electric ray fishes have enlarged and rounded pectoral fins with two moderately large rounded and angular dorsal fins. They have a stout and muscular tail with a fairly developed caudal fin. The entire body is thick and flabby with soft and loose skin lacking dermal denticles and thorns. They have a pair of kidney-shaped electric organs that are located at the base of the pectoral fins. Electric rays are usually bottom-dwelling fish that can be found from shallow coastal waters to a depth of over 1000 meters. Unlike other rays, electric rays are generally sluggish and slow moving fishes, which often propel themselves with their tails instead of using disc-shaped bodies. They feed on invertebrates and small fish

Pictures of Fish Electric Ray Pictures and Electric Ray Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Electric Ray Pictures and Electric Ray Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Electric Ray Pictures and Electric Ray Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Electric Ray Pictures and Electric Ray Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Electric Ray Pictures and Electric Ray Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Elephantnose Pictures and Elephantnose Fishes Kind

Elephantnose fish is an elephantfish native to the rivers of West and Central Africa especially in the lower Niger River Basin. They prefer muddy and slow moving rivers and pools with submerged branches. Elephantnose is the most commonly available aquarium fish in various aquarium stores throughout the United States.

Elephantnose has a dark brown to black laterally compressed body with a rear dorsal fin and anal fin of the same length. Their most striking feature is a elephant-trunk-like protrusion from their head. The protrusion is not actually a nose but a sensitive extension of the mouth that it used for self defense, communication, navigation and for finding their food items such as worms and insects. This organ and rest of the body is covered with electro-receptors. They have a very poor eyesight and hence they use a weak electric field for locating and catching their prey and for navigating in dark waters. They usually live from 6 to 10 years.

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Pictures of Fish Elephantnose Pictures and Elephantnose Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Elephantnose Pictures and Elephantnose Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Elephantnose Pictures and Elephantnose Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Escolar Pictures and Escolar Fishes Kind

Escolar is a species of fish from temperate and tropical waters throughout the world. They are found at depths of 200-900 meters. Escolar is a widely used food fish in Europe, America and Asia. They are sometimes consumed raw. They are often sold as white-tuna and sometimes misleadingly or deceptively sold as butterfish, codfish, sea bass, orange roughy or oilfish or Hawaiian butterfish.

Escolar is a fast-swimming fish. It is dark brown in color and grow further darker with maturity until it becomes all black. They have prominent lateral keel and multiple finlets. Like oilfish, escolar can not metabolize wax esters, which are the part of their normal diet. Wax esters can often accumulate to give fairly large oil contents in the muscle meat that can cause gastrointestinal problems when escolars are consumed by humans. Although the effects are short lived but many cases of diarrhea and oily orange discharges have been reported even 36 hours after its consumption. Besides, stomach cramps, headaches, nausea, vomiting and loose bowel movements are also possible after the consumption of escolars. Many countries have legally banned the consumption of escolars.

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Pictures of Fish Escolar Pictures and Escolar Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Escolar Pictures and Escolar Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Escolar Pictures and Escolar Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Chain Pickerel Fishes Pictures and Chain Pickerel Fishes Kind

Chain Pickerel is a species of freshwater fish found along the eastern coast of North America from southern Canada to Florida. It belongs o pike family and also known as southern pike or federation pike. The name chain comes from dark chain-like pattern on its greenish sides. Average size of chain pickerel is 24-inches and 3-pounds; however, the largest chain pickerel weighs around 10 pounds and is 36-inches long.

Chain pickerel feeds on small fishes, which it captures with a rapid lunge and secures with its sharp teeth. Chain pickerel is one of most popular sports fish for the anglers, as it is an energetic fighter when hooked. Although Chain pickerels are edible but the fish needs to be cleaned properly for removing many small bones. Outer appearance of chain pickerels is very much like that of the northern pike fish. Across many regions, the anglers consider chain pickerels as a threat to the population of trout fishes, another variety of freshwater fishes.For More Informations

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Pictures of Fish Chain Pickerel Fishes Pictures and Chain Pickerel Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Chain Pickerel Fishes Pictures and Chain Pickerel Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Chain Pickerel Fishes Pictures and Chain Pickerel Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Barbel Fishes Pictures and Barbel Fishes Kind

Barbel, species of fresh water fish, is known as common barbel. It is native throughout Europe and China. In Italy and Morocco, it has become an established ‘Introduced Species’. Barbel is ideally suited to fast flowing waters. They are found at the bottom of the rivers as well as in the open waters. However, for feeding they visit deep waters in the rivers with a rocky or gravel bottom. Male barbels become mature after 3-4 years and females after 5-8 years.

Size of the adult barbel is up to 4 feet in length and 12 kg in weight. Barbel has a slightly laterally compressed body and lacks an adipose fin. The overall appearance is dark brown or fray mottled. Its underside is light colored and the fins have a reddish tinge. They feed on organisms such as crustaceans, insect larvae and mollusks. In UK, they play a minor role in commercial aquaculture; however, they are very popular sport fish. Popularity of barbels in UK is so much that angling societies specifically promote the pursuit and conservation of the species.

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Pictures of Fish Barbel Fishes Pictures and Barbel Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Barbel Fishes Pictures and Barbel Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Barbel Fishes Pictures and Barbel Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Barbel Fishes Pictures and Barbel Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Barbel Fishes Pictures and Barbel Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Arowana Fishes Pictures and Arowana Fishes Kind

Arowana is a fresh water bony fish. Arowana family of fish has a bony head and elongate body that is covered by large and heavy scales with a mosaic pattern of canals. Dorsal and the anal fins have soft rays and are long. Pectoral and ventral fins are small. Arowana is also sometimes known as bonytongues, as they have a toothed bone on the floor of the mouth – tongue, equipped with teeth that bite against teeth on the roof of the mouth.

Arowana can obtain oxygen from air by sucking into the swim bladder that is lined with capillaries like lung tissues. It is a carnivorous fish, often being specialized surface feeder. It is an excellent jumper, with some of the species being capable of jumping up to 6 feet (2 meters) from the water surface to catch insects and birds from overhanging branches of trees in South America. Due to the excellent jumping capabilities, they have been nicknamed as ‘water monkeys’. It has often been rumored that Arowana have captured prey as large as low flying bats and small birds.

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Pictures of Fish Arowana Fishes Pictures and Arowana Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Arowana Fishes Pictures and Arowana Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Arowana Fishes Pictures and Arowana Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Arowana Fishes Pictures and Arowana Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Arowana Fishes Pictures and Arowana Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Arowana Fishes Pictures and Arowana Fishes Kind