hi all. i am new to this forum. i just started fishing with my kids in our lake and my daughter caught the fish that is in my member pic. i have never seen this before and would appreciate if anyone can tell me what it is. we have a lot of bass and catfish but that is all we have seen. i was wondering if it was a different kind of catfish.
thanks
darren
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[indent]Its been a good many years since. ive caught one , but that look like a dogfish, did you catch it in a northern state ?
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i am in south florida. are they common there?
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sorry guy but thats not a dogfish..dogfish fins look like ell finns..as a matter of facta dogfish looks alot like a burbot...
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That is one ugly critter, never heard of it , like I said it has been a long time since I caught a dog fish . Im glad someone was able to identiy this fish looks like a trash fish
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my misteak guys..what ive always called a dod fish is acctually a burbot...a dog fish is actually a member of the shark family..heres a pic of a bubot..this is what we call a dog fish..i hope this clears up the misunderstanding..
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that is a big algae eater out of and aquarium. Go look at any pet store and see how much they look alike. i have one in mine that looks identical, just smaller. That is not a native fish, someone put that in your pond. just my 2 cents.
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interesting. i never would have figured that
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Thanks for the nice of this forum.I think this is catfish.But i
agree with you it's so different.
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if thats a catfish then it would be the strangest looking catfish i,ve ever seen. I,m really intrested.
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Wow! That is a new one for me too! I've never seen one like that, it's so ugly. [frown]
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Yes, as someone said already, that is an armored catfish, and smaller specimens (starting at 1 or 2 inches in length) are very common in the aquarium trade. Among fishkeepers, it's called a plecostomus, or "pleco" for short. It's a freshwater tropical fish from Central and South America and commonly kept for its algae-eating ability. They grow steadily and get rough and aggressive as they get larger, and my guess is that its old owner tossed him into that lake when the fish just got too out of hand for his indoor tank. In outdoor conditions, they'll reach sizes of up to two feet. Reminds me of the non-native "oscars" (South American cichlid) that you might find in some Florida waters - also an unwanted transplant from fishkeepers' tanks.
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This fish look some different breed to me. It is not like a dog fish too!
vet.cornell.edu/fhc/news/fip.htm
petmanage.com/...lth/fip-in-cats.html
heres a video of two bristle nose Pleco
They have crazy spikes on each of the body near the gill,
Sharp!
[url "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OVoeFCEVF4"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OVoeFCEVF4[/url]
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YUP, plecostomus it is!!! here is a pix of one in a tank.
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definetely catfish. i have couple thislooking in my fishtank, but not exactly.
i think i've catch this in HudsonRiver by Ossining NY, forgot the name...
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+1 Plecostomus
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LOL,I caught one by hand while snorkeling in the lake,got him in the pond now,been trying to get one swimming for sometime,I got him sort of cornered of under a rock[
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sucker fish,or algea eaters.Snagged it?[mad]
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It’s a burbot fish, it little bit looks like a dog fish. It is the only member of genus lota.
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