MEOWY FISHMAS! ✨🐱We're opening on January 4th for commissions, and we've got these two ADORABLE catfish designs up for fullsuit adoption! Designed by , we have Tilly the koi catfish and Poncho the salmon catfish! 💖

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1/5 Day 16 of brings a fish that likes to hang around uninvited! & while there are a number of ornamental fish in the 🇦🇺 industry that also quite literally suck (onto aquarium glass) I'll be focusing on the often overlooked & uninvited hitchhikers of the trade... https://t.co/FeRqZjViMv

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🎶Everybody's gone sturgeon, Sturgeon USA🎶

While you might not be able to have a white sturgeon chances are likely you're not too far from a species of sturgeon- there are 9 species/subspecies in N. America, all of which are found in the US

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“August and September furnish a plentiful supply of prime sturgeon.This fish attains a great size. Some of those we took were eleven feet in length; and, with the entrails out, weighed from three to four hundred pounds.”
Adventures on the Columbia River Ross Cox

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And with today's 'O'opu 'alam'o, we say goodbye to the southwestern US portion of the road trip. From a goby that climbs up waterfalls, to a pupfish that lives in 90°F water, the fishes of the southwest are a resilient bunch! On to the Pacific Northwest + Alaska!

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Southeast Edition:
Candy darter, Blue catfish, Sailfin molly, Alabama cave fish, Barrens topminnow, Alligator gar, Bluehead chub.

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Started the sketch for today’s / at 5am but didnt get a chance to finish until now.

This long boi is an Alligator Gar (Atractosteus spatula) - a bony fish that lives in swamps, bayous, & slow-moving rivers in southern US and northern Mexico.

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Two-fold contribution today. I’ve committed to a collage of each region is posting for (one left to add) and a WIP for this week’s guess - alligator

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Congrats to everyone who guessed "alligator gar" for this week's mash-up!

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There are 3 big catfish species in North America (big in body size AND popularity): the channel, flathead, and blue catfish. Blue catfish are most often confused with channel catfish, but have a straight anal fin (the channel has a curved one)

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Candy darter (Etheostoma osburni) artwork by Britney Kreiner, former student in my lab. Visit by ⁦⁩ in Ichthyology lab inspired her.
Watch for more fishy art


Like to give a young artist validation

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Q- is for...Questioning.

So...what is this thing again...?


Do not steal.

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I'm opening up 5 commission slots, get 'em while they're hot 🔥

$100 for something like these examples here. Not super complex bgs, 1 character, waist-ish up, full color. Paypal

DM me on here or email me at fishmas1 @ gmail . com
(no spaces obviously)

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Merry Banana Fishmas!🎄 Can you believe it's been a year since BF ended with Eiji taking Ash back to Japan and them living happily ever after? 😭💞

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And finally as is appropriate for the 25th day of I “present” the Christmas Wrasse.

Happy everyone. Thanks especially to for welcoming me into this fun ichthyologist pastime. Have a great holiday and a productive 2020

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Merry my dudes!

... klingt einfach besser :I

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MERRY FISHMAS!! May all your days be merry and bright, and may all your fishmases bite

Thank you so much to for this wonderful little Lolo!

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