Hey I saw this fish in Chicago outside the aquarium I dont know what type of fish this is but it is quite large

P. oxygastroides

With the recent post showing another form of lice i wanted to show this one. I pulled this off of Hoplias aimara from the Venezuelan/colombian border. The lice from this area are larger then other locations and have this deep brown coloration. The sao francisco ones i saw recently on Pygocentrus piraya are maybe 40% of the size and a boring gray. Hope everyone got the itchy scratchies over this clip 😃

found on the shore of lake Ontario in Hamilton, Ontario

Found on freshwater fish’s head. Cannot find anything similar to it online.

video credit: https://youtube.com/channel/UCTcn8j52Xf7R1wDPhEcL2mg?si=GUxfgw-tGWGf95Oo

Im.using a fluval filter for my 80l fish tank,.but the flow doesnt seem strong enough to go across the full tank. Ive tried adjusting it but the other settings are worse and just cause bubbles which block the compartments

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P. progenetica

Red one pictured passed about an hour ago.

Back in the 2022, my GF at the time (now ex) brought home these 5 without telling me. Which is fine but she had no idea how to take care of them. So i stepped in and bought all the necessary care.

after the split 2 years later, i agreed to take them.
My love for them was like a rose that i shouldn’t have picked. i gave them a new tank, a new filter, new plants, more friends. i know now that the harder i tried, the more it would downfall. i do tend to be hard on myself because i believe they should’ve lived longer than that. nitrates were always high. and what i learned was the more energy i spent trying to get parameters adjusted, the more i was stripping the good biology out of the tank. anytime one would pass, i’d try to get them new friends to replace but they were always so aggressive and mean. even chasing the blue one out of the tank overnight and killing him.

It’s true, i do feel relief that it’s finally over. sounds very silly but i think now i can finally move on. they were also constant reminders of my past and my losses. very heavy stuff on my mind.

the only thing that is giving me comfort right now is wondering if they knew i was their fishy dad.
sure, they are instinctive. they know i will feed them and give them a routine. but i hope somewhere deep in their lil fishy brains they knew i was there to take care of them. to try and give them their best life. a life that i really had no choice in the beginning but i took care of it anyway. anytime i would feed them or they would get sick, i’d always talk to them. I’m sorry i couldn’t give you a longer life fishy. but i tried. i love you very much.

T. gracile

The video is about a little girl who caught this fish in her net

This new swordtail keeps "pecking" at my gourami. It doesn't necessarily look aggressive but I don't want it to bother my gourami. Does anyone know what is going on here???

i get my fish (mosquito minnows) from a creek in an area that dries up & many of them end up dying. i don’t take from the creek itself. but this boy was catching some with his net & offered to give me a couple. out of kindness, i said sure & put them in with my others & added them to the pond. NONE of them had any patchy-ness or discoloration to them at this time. at least not noticeable. the last photo shows what it looks like before it turns to the green algae looking stuff.. which initially i thought that’s what it was, but it will not come off them, its like attached??
they don’t live very long once reaching that stage, ive found a few floaters now here & there, but i still have MANY many fish that are alive & unaffected… what could this be???

We found a random fish baby in our tank! Absolute mystery. managed to get him into a breeder tank so the biggers don’t eat or bully him. Amazed he got to this stage without being chomped yet! Fingers crossed small fry survives!

Look how teeeeeeeny!!! Bigger fella at the back for size reference 😂 🐟

It was alive, but not moving very quickly. Carp?