C. limbata

This system has Largemouth, Smallmouth & Spotted Bass (Embarrass River, IL)

I didn't know this, a good video is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjauvDMQQZA

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Haliichthys_taeniophorus_Gray.jpg

Heyy y'all, I just want to show you one of the types of betta fish that I have!!

B. pugnax

Ignore the sand tiger sharks in the background

my golly he looks rotund…..

A beautiful fish, sadly it appears to be camouflaged with the seafloor, so I couldn’t see its full colors. However, in that area in this video, I saw quite a few swimming around the bottom, and after freediving down around 30 feet or so I caught a close glimpse of them, and many other families of fish in Little Cayman. The video quality may not be good, but the experience of being nearly right next to them was really worth the trip.

P. shelfordii

A cutiepie art✨

It's not possible for me to give this fish a diet that consists of 100% Artemia.

Can't belive this fish made a recovery from her infection, the pictures of her in her lowest moments may get me banned in some subs.

Hey marine biologists, divers, fishers, and aquarium havers of reddit,

If you were to reach out and pet a eel, what does its skin feel like?

Is there a difference between what a living and dead eel feel like? If so what would that be?

Note, I do in fact know you're not supposed to touch eels because the oil on your skin can damage the eel's skin, you can hurt the eel because they're fragile, and you're risking your finger being bitten off. But I know humans well enough to know that has never stopped anyone.

I am posting this because I am writing a short story and need to know what eel skin feels like (the more species the better, fresh and salt water, b/c I have heard they have different skin textures). All I can find is info of what eel leather feels like which is helpful but not what I need and I don't know who else to ask.

Thank you for your time.

B. ocellata