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While feeding bluegills I see a pair of black fish, maybe 2 inches long with two wide orange vertical bands in 6 inches of water. Couldn't get a useful photo. Appealing looking.

I didn't stock anything like this and google isn't popping up a fish. To me it is a combination of a black mollie and a clown fish.

My overflow has never run, and my watershed is forest, no bow or creek.

Anybody heard of such critters?

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4 acre pond 32 ft deep within East Texas (Livingston) timber ranch. Filled (to the top of an almost finished dam) by Hurricane Harvey 9/17. Stocked with FHM, CNBG, RES 10/17. Added 35lbs RSC 3/18. 400 N LMB fingerlings 6/18
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Here is the best photo. The two black fish facing us in the central depression. Surrounded by minnows, with cnbg slightly offshore.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/SsXaJvP7GWppwqTr6


4 acre pond 32 ft deep within East Texas (Livingston) timber ranch. Filled (to the top of an almost finished dam) by Hurricane Harvey 9/17. Stocked with FHM, CNBG, RES 10/17. Added 35lbs RSC 3/18. 400 N LMB fingerlings 6/18
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i can't make anything of the picture, but it is probably fathead minnows. they have colored bands on them during mating season. i freaked out when i first saw mine, i thought it was some type of tropical fish like you mentioned.


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Scott. This makes sense. When I look at images of mating color fatheads, they are in the ballpark. I'm surprised I don't see more.

Here is pic of a male fathead in breeding form.

https://goo.gl/images/fVPuQD

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4 acre pond 32 ft deep within East Texas (Livingston) timber ranch. Filled (to the top of an almost finished dam) by Hurricane Harvey 9/17. Stocked with FHM, CNBG, RES 10/17. Added 35lbs RSC 3/18. 400 N LMB fingerlings 6/18

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