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Posted by
outsideplaying 7/No. Ala (
My Page) on
Wed, Jul 28, 10 at 21:29
| I have a small black fish in my pond that I can't identify. It is approx 4 inches long and has 'bug eyes' that are quite different from the sarassa comets and goldfish. They actually bulge out to the side, giving it a hammerhead look. Reminds me of a large version of the algae eaters we used to buy for the kids aquariums. I know the fry are often black or dark but this guy is truly black I think. I have several of 2-3 inch goldfish fry right now as well.
So, can anyone identify and does this one stay or should he go? If he's an algae eater of some sort, he's welcome to invite his cousins over for a big meal. I hope one of these photos works...I haven't used photobucket in a while.
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RE: Unknown Fish
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I would guess it's just a freakish goldfish that was "lucky" enough to get the weird genetics held by one of it's "parents"???/
Don't really know just a stab! |
RE: Unknown Fish
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- Posted by kalevi 4 Ottawa, ON (My Page) on
Thu, Jul 29, 10 at 18:15
| Looks like a goldfish. Kind of like a low quality black moor. |
RE: Unknown Fish
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| Thanks. I looked at the black moor photos and couldn't really see much similarity except in the fins, etc. Still don't know. We do live in the country so anything could have been brought in by birds, turtles, frogs, etc. The head and eyes are what really threw me. |
RE: Unknown Fish
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| If the fins look like those of a black moor and the eyes are like a black moor, then what makes it not look like a black moor? |
RE: Unknown Fish
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| It has a longer, more slender body than the pics I've seen online of a black moor. The hammerhead doesn't look like a black moor...just the way the eyes sort of bulge out of the head on the side. The black moor photos I've seen have a tapered head. And it's much darker than the black moor. Pondanimal, were you able to view the photos? |
RE: Unknown Fish
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| Possibly a cross between a comet and a moor, or a moor and some other species of goldie. |
RE: Unknown Fish
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Nancy, thanks. I guess that must be it. I haven't added any new fish to my pond in 3 years, so that fish is really a throwback to some genes somewhere! Unless it came in on a visitor....
At any rate, I'm keeping an eye on it to see what happens. So far so good. I found another 2" fry in my pond yesterday. It was still brownish and had not started turning color yet. |
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