It was an unlucky Friday the 13th for small fish or anyone else who might be swimming in the St. Lawrence after 50,000 predatory eels were set free in the waters around the Thousand Islands. The young American eels were released into the St. Lawrence River near the islands on Thursday as part of a multi-year project to help restore the eel population in Ontario waterways.
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A group of teens swimming in the North Fork of the American River in Northern California last week didn’t know they weren’t alone in the water. A girl stuck her arm in the water and when she pulled it out there were 10 to 15 leeches all over her arm!
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This thing washed up on an Oregon beach the other day. At nearly six feet long, this King-of-the-Salmon is a member of the Ribbonfish family normally found 1,600 below the surface of the ocean, from Alaska to Baja and along the coast of Chile. The fish is currently frozen at the Seaside Aquarium.
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A Singapore aquarium magazine called Fish Love has published an article which shows how cosmetic surgery can be performed on pet fish by amputating their tails and injecting them with dyes. The article provides a step-by-step guide to producing a tail-less Flowerhorn cichlid using a pair of scissors and some antibiotics, and offers details on how to produce dyed Parrot cichlids using a hypodermic needle and some food colouring. Ew, where is the “love” in that?
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