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Shy adult red-tail loach with a two-inch green terror above him.
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Three-inch Polypterus ornatipinnis.
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Same guy wiggling around.
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Different ornatapinnis checking out an albino senegalus.
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Four-inch barb trade in.
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Same two photogenic barbs.
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Butis butis, also called
"crazy fish" and "crocodile fish" and ...
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... lots of other names.
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Albino polypterus senegalus.
Still pricey.
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Inch-long figure-eight and red-eye puffers.
Cute little devils. Extraordinary nippers.
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18-inch shovelnose sturgeon. You see the three inchers for sale
occasionally. Pretty.
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Bottom view of the shovelnose sturgeon. State record 12 pounds --
the smallest sturgeon.
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You're most likely to find them in our Iowa border rivers -- the Missouri
and the Mississippi.
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Sauger -- a close but smaller relative of the walleye pike. Very
similar eyes.
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More of a bottom dweller. Found in Iowa border waters.
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Four-inch Jardini arowana.
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How a foot-long clown knife fish looks to a feeder
goldfish.
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Therapon jarbua or target fish -- two
inches.
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Target fish -- one of the few fish capable of competing with bull sharks.
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1.5-inch "lizard fish" also called lizard loach.
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Dinky 0.75-inch clown gobies.
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Clown barb -- not rare but we see very
few 3.5 inchers.
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Five-inch pink paddle-tail eel -- looks, acts, and burrows like an American
eel.
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One-inch silver datnioid living
with several black mollies. He stays black for some reason.
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African butterflyfish
always catch your eye.
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Sold to us as a prehistoric "monsterfish." Obviously a
type of freshwater stonefish.
Logan
Darnell says: So far I know it is an ambush predator which uses
its large paddle-like fins to bury itself in sand and can live in both
brackish or
freshwater depending on which species you have exactly and will learn
to eat frozen food in a aquarium. I've also heard that because they aren't
active you can keep 1 or 2 in a small tank ~24".
Logan identified it as Thalassophryne
amazonica.
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He buries himself (totally) with his paddle-like pectoral fins.
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We dug him out to see his pectoral fins.
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8" to 9" yellow eels from China. Compare to American
eel.
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Foot-long fire eel.
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Black ghost knife fish looking
like an ad for a "ghost house."
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Five-inch Anostomus trilineatus (?) a
particularly bitey headstander.
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Three-inch barracuda (characin).
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Same guy two moths later. Skinnier but a bit more color on tail.
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Plus a bit more appetite.
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Same barracuda.
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Charax that killed the above barracuda.
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Four-inch long nose gar.
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Four-inch red-tail catfish with sand on their heads not ich.
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African mudskipper.
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Same guy being pestered.
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Prehistoric monsterfish again.
Misc. Odd
Misc. Odd II
Misc.
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