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Loach fish pictures and Loach fish Informations

Loach fish pictures and Loach fish Informations

The Loach traces its roots from the family of fish species called cobitidae. This fish breed originated from the waters of Bangladesh. Its appearance is very elegant and regal with a golden coloration and black stripe throughout the body from head to tail. As they mature, the number of stripes ad the stripe widths increase.

The Loach is a community fish, generally good-natured. However, they are rough with their own species but not to the point of causing harm. It is recommended to join them with less aggressive species in the same tank. Loach fish hate bright light and love dark places such as caves. They also love to hide behind plants during the day. You may expect the Loach fish to be active towards the evening. Loach fish are natural scavengers and love to eat snails. This is the reason why they variety are used for the control and management of snail population.

Pictures of Fish Deepwater Stingray Fishes Pictures and Deepwater Stingray Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Deepwater Stingray Fishes Pictures and Deepwater Stingray Fishes Kind

Deepwater Stingray is a species of ray fish that have a significant population on continental slopes from South Africa to Japan and Australia. Minor population of deepwater stingray or giant stingaree across Indo-West and Central Pacific. Some of the varieties have also been spotted on the East Coast of South Africa, Mozambique, Southern India, Southern China, Queensland, New South Wales and Hawaii.

Deepwater stingray is a heavy-bodied ray that can grow to at least 270 cm (9 feet) length. They have a moderately short and stout tail with a serrated stinging spine behind the pelvic fins. Their snout is moderately elongated and broadly angular. Small eyes are just ahead of the spiracles. Their mouth is straight and broad with small, oval rounded teeth. Dorsal fins are absent in deepwater stingrays. Caudal fin long, moderately large and leaf-shaped. Upperparts are purple brown or purple grey, underparts are white and tail is completely dark. Deepwater stingrays feed on fishes, lobsters, prawns and crabs. They are not very useful to humans though its meat is used at some places.

Pictures of Fish Deepwater Stingray Fishes Pictures and Deepwater Stingray Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Deepwater Stingray Fishes Pictures and Deepwater Stingray Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Deepwater Stingray Fishes Pictures and Deepwater Stingray Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Deepwater Stingray Fishes Pictures and Deepwater Stingray Fishes Kind

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Pictures of Fish Danio Fishes Pictures and Danio Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Danio Fishes Pictures and Danio Fishes Kind

Danio is a genus of fish species that comprises of many of the species of Danionins. The name comes from Bengali word that translates into ‘of the rice field’. Danios are native to fresh water rivers and streams of southeast Asia and are also found throughout the world as aquaculture species. Several species have been recently discovered in remote Islands of Myanmar.

Danios have two pairs of long barbels, which generally have horizontal stripes. Some of the species have vertical bars. Their size ranges from 4-15 cm in length. In the aquariums, they tend to live for 2-3 years while in wilds, they generally do not live for more than a year. Danios mainly feed on crustaceans, insects, worms and planktons in wild. In aquariums, they feed on a variety of foods including frozen food and flakes. They are very sociable and easy to maintain and thus are very popular for keeping in aquariums. Danios should be kept in tanks with water temperature in the range of 18-24 Celsius. They are good at jumping and therefore the lid of tanks should be tight fitting.


Pictures of Fish Danio Fishes Pictures and Danio Fishes Kind


Pictures of Fish Danio Fishes Pictures and Danio Fishes Kind


Pictures of Fish Danio Fishes Pictures and Danio Fishes Kind


Pictures of Fish Danio Fishes Pictures and Danio Fishes Kind


Pictures of Fish Danio Fishes Pictures and Danio Fishes Kind


Pictures of Fish Danio Fishes Pictures and Danio Fishes Kind


Pictures of Fish Danio Fishes Pictures and Danio Fishes Kind


Pictures of Fish Danio Fishes Pictures and Danio Fishes Kind


Pictures of Fish Danio Fishes Pictures and Danio Fishes Kind


Pictures of Fish Danio Fishes Pictures and Danio Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Cisco Fishes Pictures and Cisco Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Cisco Fishes Pictures and Cisco Fishes Kind

Cisco is a salmonid (family of ray-finned fish) fish. They differ from other members of the genus by having upper and lower jaws of approximately equal length. Five endemic species of Laurentian Great Lakes are thought to be of very recent evolution. Cisco species have recently been subjected to lots of research that is being carried out to determine the relationships among the species that have evolved recently.

Ciscoes are extensively explored in commercial fisheries especially in the Laurentian Great Lakes, where deep water forms are considered as the basis of chub fishery. Chub fishery was exclusively based on the various species of Ciscoes. The fishery continues even when the stocks of Ciscoes are falling and other species are spreading through the system. At many places, Cisco species have declined in great numbers. Some of the breeders believe that Ciscoes represent  an incipient species flock. Lots of debates have taken place to  ascertain which were the true species and which were not, particularly due to the facts that some of the species have become extinct.

Pictures of Fish Cisco Fishes Pictures and Cisco Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Cisco Fishes Pictures and Cisco Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Cisco Fishes Pictures and Cisco Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Cisco Fishes Pictures and Cisco Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Cisco Fishes Pictures and Cisco Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Cisco Fishes Pictures and Cisco Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Cisco Fishes Pictures and Cisco Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Cisco Fishes Pictures and Cisco Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Cisco Fishes Pictures and Cisco Fishes Kind


Pictures of Fish Bat Ray Fishes Pictures and Bat Ray Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Bat Ray Fishes Pictures and Bat Ray Fishes Kind

Bat Ray is an eagle ray fish that can be found in muddy or sandy sloughs, estuaries, bays, kelp beds and rocky-bottomed shoreline in the eastern Pacific Ocean between the Oregon coast and the Gulf of California. Largest specimens of bat ray can grow up to 90 kg with a wingspan of 1.8 meters. Bat rays can live in environment with large range of salinities. Currently, bat rays are fished commercially in Mexico but not in the United States.

Bat rays feed on mollusks, crustaceans and small fish on the seabed. They use their wing-like pectoral fins to move sand and expose prey animals. They can dig trenches up to 20 cm deep to expose buried prey. Like other stingrays, bat rays have a venomous spine in its tail near the base, which is not considered dangerous to human beings except when attacked or frightened. Bat rays are very popular in marine parks where the visitors are often allowed to touch or stroke ray, usually on the wing.
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Pictures of Fish Bat Ray Fishes Pictures and Bat Ray Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Bat Ray Fishes Pictures and Bat Ray Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Bat Ray Fishes Pictures and Bat Ray Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Bat Ray Fishes Pictures and Bat Ray Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Bat Ray Fishes Pictures and Bat Ray Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Bat Ray Fishes Pictures and Bat Ray Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Bat Ray Fishes Pictures and Bat Ray Fishes Kind

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Pictures of Fish Arowana Fishes Pictures and Arowana 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

Pictures of Fish Arowana Fishes Pictures and Arowana Fishes Kind


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Pictures of Fish Carp Fishes Pictures and Carp Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Carp Fishes Pictures and Carp Fishes Kind

Carp is a common name for various fresh water fish . Carp is a very large group of fish originally from Eurasia and Southeast Asia. Carp has long been used as an important food fish for humans. Carp is a very popular ornamental fish in Aquarium and ponds (goldfishes being one of the most popular examples of Carps). As a result, carps have been introduced to various regions.

The most notable and popular ornamental carp is coarse fish that are difficult to hook. In USA, carp is classified as a rough fish. Many of the states have also started viewing the carps as angling fish instead of maligned pest. Carps are considered as the queen of rivers and a stately and subtle fish. In England, carps have been naturalized though earlier the carps were not bred in England. In Australia, scientific studies have proved that carps are the cause of permanent turbidity and loss of submerged vegetation system, with severe consequences for river ecosystems water quality and native fish species.

Pictures of Fish Carp Fishes Pictures and Carp Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Carp Fishes Pictures and Carp Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Carp Fishes Pictures and Carp Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Carp Fishes Pictures and Carp Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Carp Fishes Pictures and Carp Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Carp Fishes Pictures and Carp Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Carp Fishes Pictures and Carp Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Seahorse Fishes Pictures and Seahorse Shark Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Seahorse Fishes Pictures and Seahorse Shark Fishes Kind

Seahorse is a genus of fish that also include pipefish and leafy sea dragons. About 32 species of seahorse fishes are found in shallow tropical and temperate waters throughout the world. Seahorses prefer to live in sheltered areas such as grass beds, coral reefs or mangroves. Sizes of seahorse fish ranges from very small (dwarf seahorse), about an inch long to those much larger sized seahorses measuring about one-foot long.

Seahorses are bony fish but do not have any scales. They have a thin skin stretched over a series of bony plates arranged in rings throughout its body. Seahorses swim upright unlike their close relative pipefish, which swim horizontally. They are poor swimmers and thus can be mostly found resting at seabeds or coral reefs. Seahorses have long snouts, which makes it possible for them to suck up food. The eyes can move independently of each other much like a chameleon. They feed on small fish, shrimps and plankton (drifting organisms like animals, plants or bacteria). Seahorses are extensively used in Chinese medicines and herbology.

Pictures of Fish Seahorse Fishes Pictures and Seahorse Shark Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Seahorse Fishes Pictures and Seahorse Shark Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Seahorse Fishes Pictures and Seahorse Shark Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Seahorse Fishes Pictures and Seahorse Shark Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Seahorse Fishes Pictures and Seahorse Shark Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Electric Eel Fishes Pictures and Electric Eel Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Electric Eel Fishes Pictures and Electric Eel Fishes Kind

Electric eel despite the name eel, is not a true eel, rather it is a knifefish or very near to catfish. Electric eels, as the name suggests, can generate a powerful electrical shock that it uses both for hunting and self defense. Electric eels are obligate air breathers, which rise to the surface every 10 minutes or so to gulp the air after which they go back to the bottom.

Electric eels have an elongate and cylindrical body. They can grow up to 2 meters in length and 20 kg in weight. They are the largest species of their biological family. Color on the back is gray-brown and yellow or orange on the belly. Mouth is square and is positioned right at the snout. They have no scales. Electric eels have three organs that generate electricity main organ, hunter’s organ and Sachs organ. These three organs comprise 80% of the body. These organs are made of electrocytes, which are lined up in such a way that current flows through them and produces an electric charge. Electric eels generate an electric pulse in a very similar way to that of a battery. The shock produced by an electric eel could be fatal for an adult human.

Pictures of Fish Electric Eel Fishes Pictures and Electric Eel Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Electric Eel Fishes Pictures and Electric Eel Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Electric Eel Fishes Pictures and Electric Eel Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Electric Eel Fishes Pictures and Electric Eel Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Electric Eel Fishes Pictures and Electric Eel Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Electric Eel Fishes Pictures and Electric Eel Fishes Kind

Antarctic Cod Fish Pictures and Antarctic Cod Fishes Kind

Antarctic Cod Fish Pictures and Antarctic Cod Fishes Kind

Antarctic cod fish is famous for producing antifreeze glycoprotein that allows it to survive in the ice laden waters of southern sea surrounding Antarctic sea. They are also known as antarctic toothfish. Antarctic cods have a heartbeat rate of once every six seconds. Scientists are doing research on antarctic cods for cardiac medicines especially in human conditions involving low heartbeats or patients with the conditions of hypothermia.

They are very large fishes and can be caught in the waters below 2000 meters depth. Fully grown antarctic cod fishes are grayish in color, weigh around 135 kg and have a length of more than 2 meters. The flesh of antarctic cod is white and is rich of high oil content. Although the name is antarctic cod but they do not belong to cod family. The taste is very similar to cod and that is why the name antarctic cod. They generally feed on various types of fish. However, they are also known to eat almost anything including the remains of penguins caught by seals and orca on the surfaces.

Antarctic Cod Fish Pictures and Antarctic Cod Fishes Kind

Antarctic Cod Fish Pictures and Antarctic Cod Fishes Kind

Antarctic Cod Fish Pictures and Antarctic Cod Fishes Kind

Antarctic Cod Fish Pictures and Antarctic Cod Fishes Kind

Antarctic Cod Fish Pictures and Antarctic Cod Fishes Kind

Antarctic Cod Fish Pictures and Antarctic Cod Fishes Kind

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