ichthyophile.bsky.social
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There was a study where the media take was that fish can recognise different human faces, I thought it more likely that the variation between faces just falls inside the range of visual acuity that the fish possess for other reasons, they could just as easily have been abstract shapes as faces.
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To me this seems more likely to just indicate that these species possess high visual acuity that can be repurposed to an adaptable form of foraging, in situ target training.
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Those Pungu in the tank?
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How typical of Canada to try to lay claim to a circum-arctic species. Up there with Gulf of America.
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Like a tetracanthus, a Danakilia, a steindachneri-group "Geophagus" and something else all got freaky.
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Ramsdeni is the coolest from that region, like someone moved a Ptychochromoides to the Caribbean.
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Very low in terms of impact, adjacent to two zoological institutions ("coincidentally") so lots of opportunity for research. Shouldn't be here, but very low on the priority list, may as well make use of them. I'd rather see carp, rainbow trout, muntjacs, parakeets and Himalayan balsam gone first.
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Both chemical filth www.fentimans.com/products/cur...
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Depends what's in there. Red parrot cichlids and balloon mollies would be baaaad.
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Do you have plans to investigate carangids? Many of those have a keel also.
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Need to eat more pineapple.
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Strange to see Conwy quay so deserted.
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There are also lionhead goldfish of course.
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Must have made some recipes more interesting to follow.
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There was a mill in that area where the roof had sagged enough to hold a substantial body of water from rainfall. Someone carried fish up there and it became as unusual an angling spot for local kids as you're likely to find.
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Which sp. I strongly suspect more people have had these spawn than they realise, it's just the eggs or fry don't survive due to predation in a mixed aquarium.
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Female just giving birth here.
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Just how big are these Otocinclus?
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I've always been fascinated by them. Found one on a hilltop while on a school trip when I was 9, maybe 10, couldn't understand why everyone else wasn't as delighted as I was. Last one I saw was this past Autumn in the garden.
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Megalampris must have been a sight to behold, an opah the size of adult Mola.
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Other options may be available. Where have you seen me complain? An angry, obese, insecure criminal seems the ideal person to lead the US in 2025.
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Yeah, that's maybe not so great either.
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Just amazing creatures these.
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I don't see the vertical caudal stripes I'd expect for niloticus.
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Dorsigera are much less elongate IMO, and the females show more dark or deep red (depending on origin) pigmentation below the lateral line. That burgundy above the lateral stripe is indicative of curviceps to me, with the proviso that I think there may be more than one taxon under that name.
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@belowwater.bsky.social
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Curviceps I think.
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Why do you hate pears?
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m.youtube.com/watch?v=i5TP...
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Makes the possible depictions in the Serrania de la Lindosa rock art more feasible?
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Calm down Groucho GARx.
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I would change that to "persuading" as otherwise it could be misinterpreted as "obtaining"...
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Is this the 1949 specimen?
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Must just have sounded like it did.
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Was it caught off Tanzania?
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Not a squid, but an isopod that came out of an squid I was preparing for feeding to fish. Looks like a Cymothoan to my uneducated eyes.
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First one I saw of those was in Montreal, they're in the UK but distribution tends to be South of where I grew up.
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Is there an English translation of your DCG article on cichlid evolution by any chance?
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There are chetumalensis over here but they look rather inbred to me now.
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They're the best ones so long as they're old ones from the NW fringes of Europe.
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Still a favourite of mine, kept them back in '84 for a few years, always loved that abrupt colour change in the females, and those eyes!
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Lalandi seems to be most widely-used in aquaculture.
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Going to suggest a farmed yellowtail amberjack, looks maybe a bit brachyrostral which can be a trait of farmed fish. Sorry for delay, currently acting as gofer, cheerleader and deputy for my partner and our new born.
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What's the location?
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When you have a genus name of Phallichthys or Phalloceros I guess you're not shy in the showers.