Our Freshwater Fish

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Heres a few pics of some of our freshwater fish, a cichlid(currently about five inches long) i caught the first time we ever went fishing(she just HAD to keep him), and a strangely ornamental carp(currently just under a foot) she caught in a net quite a few years back. There are also two really big goldies that keep the carp company.. but bah.. we've all seen goldfish, and a bumblebee goby that i've just never been able to get a good shot of(my camera sucks).

Garbait - Cichlid


Carp Mandu - Butterfly Koi(we think)

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the carp is 6yrs old, i was cast netting under a bridge (somewhere in san anotonio) when i found a little olive-green fish with a body the size of my thumb. my uncle had a kiddie pool filled with tilapia, a pleco (over 1 1/2' long!), and a rio grande cichlid (see gar-bait above). i got myself a kiddie pool as well and put what i caught in it. my friend bought me 5 goldfish to put in there as well. over the next month fish started dissapearing. it was after i found one of the goldfish in the jaws of death (my dearly departed rottweiler and she ate my giant crawfish!) the mystery was solved. so now carpmandu resides with pepper sauce (female goldfish), and queso (male goldfish), in a tank that i upgraded 3 yrs ago, now its time for them to go into a pond. hopefully one that someone promised to build me, under a gazebo, all enclosed so the racoons cant eat them. :innocent

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i dont think they'll let me put a gazebo on the third floor patio dear.. :mellow

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5 months from now... raccoons

[Flobex]

pretty fish, and just to let ya know, the first one looks like a Jack Dempsey.

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We've been calling it Rio Grande, someone else told us it was a Jewel. We hooked him in Converse Park about 2.5 yrs ago, and he's hated me ever since. :P

[Richard]

1st one looks like a texas cichlid to me. The only native cichlid species.

2nd one looks like a hybrid. Maybe a butterfly koi/comet goldfish hybrid.

Nice Pics!!!

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Thanks! We've never been able to pinpoint Carp's exact genus.. probably an escapee from someones pond during high water? We did however find a link to a simular fish-> http://www.sdafs.org/laafs/AmazingFish.htm