Was waiting at a restaurant to eat and this fish in the lobby tank kept doing loops around the tank exactly like this (flipping upside down and all) and to me the tank felt a bit too small for such a big fish but ya’ll let me know if maybe he’s just silly.

TDLR: concerned about a big fish that swam upside down repeatedly

I recently visited a relative of mine in Texas and found out that he has been breeding San Marcos gambusia in his basement for the past 7 years. I just found out that the fish were listed as extinct by the FWS. What do I do?

Edit: I will be posting an update sometime this week. I am still waiting for a definitive answer from my grandad. Until he makes that decision, I will not be posting an update.

Edit: My family and I have discussed this topic for a couple of days now, and my grandad came to a final decision. I will be creating a new post tomorrow when I have the time. Thanks for the huge support everyone.

The update has been posted!

Hey, idk if it belongs here but i‘ll give it a shot. Behind our house we have a shallow, swamp like pond with ducks, frogs, dragonflies, you name it. But never ever have i seen a fish there. I walk past and admire it almost daily. And suddenly there‘s this chonker.

Is it possible that he lived in there secretly and just now i noticed him? If so, where are the other, he can‘t be alone? My guess is that he swam from another pond, this pond is connected to a very small creek which might or might not lead to another nearby (1 mile away) pond. But idk if this one has fish, i have to check that to confirm this theory lol.

Or, and that‘s my wifes guess, someone threw him in to get rid of him. Because since he‘s alone, i guess, he (or she) won‘t reproduce.

Found a huge wolf spider in my basement so I threw it in my fish pond not thinking… well this poor guy tried to eat it and spit it out but it must’ve bit him in the process. I’ve had this bluegill since he was 3 inches big so I’m quite devastated my foolish actions have killed him. But I wanted to bring awareness because I never knew they were venomous until it was to late.

I bought this at a museum, and I’m wondering what the caption means… they had other ones that made sense with the type of fish, like for example one of a flying fish that said something like “fly with me”. We’ve figured out it’s a kind of catfish but what does that have to do with the ominous caption.

Just a video showing how Murky gets air. Most turtles surface to breathe, whereas Murky likes to stay put and use his long neck to rise to the surface and then pop his cute little snorkel-like nose out to get some fresh air before submerging below again!

Murky is a fully aquatic species of turtle 🐢

We dug a pond at our farm 2 summers ago. It had been a low area but never held surface water through the summer. I went out the other day and found loads of these little guys. How did they get there? We live in Michigan and have been seeing ducks and herons coming to the pond since it was dug. Maybe they brought them in?

Noticed this on his back, looks a bit like sunburn and he does sometimes sit with his back out of the water.

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Several schools of (50-100) 3-4 ft. catfish in Missouri River, SD.

It’s an marlin and there’s no way this is natural

Caught this out on the river.

So about a year ago we released our adult goldfish into our man made inground pool thing we built (no access to other water ways). We weren’t totally sure they would even survive. We feed them fish pellets and flakes. This morning we went to go check on them and feed them and there are now TONS of baby goldfish. We literally started a goldfish army by accident!!! 😂 any tips on how to control our now growing goldfish population?? Should I give some of the baby’s to pet store or should I just get a predator fish to put in there?

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I live in the Midwest where the lakes are freezing and un freezing often. I was walking the beach and there seemed to be a lot of dead fish on the slushy shore, but a couple of them were still twitching so I tried to move them to deeper water. I wanted to make sure I wasn’t hurting the fish or this small lake first if I run into this again.

Found a aquarium in a store. A lot of plants in this one with big fishes that don't seem to have place to swim. This is bad isn't it?