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Need ID help please.
I caught this in my pond this morning in NorthEast Alabama. Can somebody please tell me what it is. Thanks.
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Creek chub? Does a creek feed this pond?
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No a creek doesn't feed this pond.
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After googling creek chub it appears that what I caught is exactly that. Never heard of them before. Thanks Omaha. Greg
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I'd be curious to know how it got into your pond. If it's there, so are other species, some of which you probably don't want.
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That picture is a little vague as to what the nose looks like, is there any thing special about it??
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When you say special, what do you mean?
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Not sure what you mean by special but it's nose was rounded, somewhat blunt. It had hard horn like protrusions on each side of it's mouth and around it's eyes. You can see them around the eye if you enlarge the picture.
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The hard bumps on the fish make me wonder if that's a disease. I don't know the fish however. Note: I've had aquarium fish, not yet pond fish, but if I saw that in one of my tanks I'd begin googling for fish disease. Preliminary googling led me to another forum that discussed wart like things on Koi. Koi might get different disease of course. Hope it okay to link to other forums - this might be useful information to you: http://www.gardenpondforum.com/topic/2607-wart-like-bumps-on-fish/
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I think it's a creek chub too. Google them and look hard at their reproduction characteristics. I don't remember off the top of my head.
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They need moving water to spawn so it's unlikely to occur in a pond.
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The hard horn like protrusions are tubercles that are features developed by the male creek chubs during spawning season. I think the function of the tubercles are to lessen the abrasions to the snout when the male is moving stones making spawning nests on the gravel bottom areas of streams.
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The hard horn like protrusions are tubercles that are features developed by the male creek chubs during spawning season. I think the function of the tubercles are to lessen the abrasions to the snout when the male is moving stones making spawning nests on the gravel bottom areas of streams. I'm not the OP, but I'm really glad to read your comment about those protrusions. I'm very glad to be wrong about my guess about a disease!
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could it have been dumped in the pond oout of someones minnow bucket
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Notice how big the mouth is on creek chub on the Cornell site. the large mouth allows these fish to eat sizable organisms (insects & newly hatched fish), thus they are competitors of lots of other small similar sized and larger fish.
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by Boondoggle - 06/14/24 10:07 PM
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