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03-10-2009, 04:15 PM
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| | | Small fish ID
Sorry, I'm sure this is a bone-headed question, but is this a minnow or a stickleback? Or something else? I've had a look at pictures of both and it doesn't seem to look like either. |
03-10-2009, 04:20 PM
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| | | Re: Small fish ID
Could be a Nine -spined Stickleback.  Jason |
03-10-2009, 04:24 PM
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| | | Re: Small fish ID
Thanks.
It looked slightly lumpy about the back end: is there any way it might have been pregnant? Or do they generally have lumpy bums? |
03-10-2009, 04:42 PM
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Oo I'm not sure why it has got a lumpy bum,ID looks correct though. Jason |
05-10-2009, 10:35 AM
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| | | Re: Small fish ID
I can see why you would question this one.We are mainly used to seeing the Three-spined Stickleback.There seems to be quite an interest in the threads about these at the mo Jason |
05-10-2009, 10:53 AM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Shropshire
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Are the nine-spined rarer? |
05-10-2009, 11:07 AM
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| | | Re: Small fish ID
They are less common,but still well distributed. Jason |
05-10-2009, 12:19 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Shropshire
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Cheers. Bonny little things! |
05-10-2009, 02:09 PM
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| | | Re: Small fish ID
They're also suckers for many types of parasite, internal and external. It doesn't look pregnant, also it's getting late for Stickleback spawning. |
06-10-2009, 09:25 AM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Southampton
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| | | Re: Small fish ID
Bonny, yes indeed Vole-woman, I have many a treasured childhood memory of Sticklebacks. Jason | | |
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