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Old 12-28-2011, 07:45 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Default Need help in fish identification

Hi, I have freshwater fish which species I do not know. When I bought the fish, the nickname the pet store had for the fish was "convict shark". Any help in its identification would be appreciated. Please check my gallery for the pictures.

PS: I purchased the fish June 1992 and recently it developed Popeye, and is it is responding to antibiotics.
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Old 12-28-2011, 08:25 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Not without a pic...
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Yes we really need a pic.Cant help otherwise.
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I was not able to post the pictures in the thread, so I uploaded them to my profile's gallery.
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To me it looks like a very oddly colored (and stunted) koi, almost like a wild type. Maybe it is a relative.
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