Yet Another Mystery Fish For You To Identify

6 Responses to Yet Another Mystery Fish For You To Identify

1. Cath@VWXYNot? says:

   15 April 2011 at 16:43

   Oh, that’s just Fred. Tell him I said hi.

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2. ricardipus says:

   15 April 2011 at 17:28

   Stumped. Best guess is some kind of Eelpout, but the fins don’t look right.

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3. KristiV says:

   15 April 2011 at 23:37

   Is it a European conger eel? Bah, I know next to nothing about fishesssesss, precioussss.

   But I do get to pick up two Pomeranian puppies on Sunday and bring them home. Squeee!

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4. Cromercrox says:

   16 April 2011 at 05:35

   According to my field guide it’s either a conger or a regular European eel. The morphological differences are quite subtle, but on the whole I’d go for the second option, as it seems to be fully adult- and adult congers are (it sez ere) whoppers. Much bigger than this.

   Cute pet alert? We must have pictures!!

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5. KristiV says:

   16 April 2011 at 12:29

   Reading The Tin Drum put me off eels – not that I’d ever eaten them in the US, but I refused to even consider it while in the UK. Aren’t jellied eels some sort of Cockney culinary treat? I suspected that it might have been rhyming slang for something actually edible, like candied orange peels.

   Pictures will be posted ASAP! I decided to give the puppies Japanese names, rather than any Tolkien-inspired names (my mom rejected LotR names as “too long and complicated”, but then she’s never read the books).

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6. Bob O'H says:

   16 April 2011 at 20:42

   Damn, my guess of a flounder was wrong, then.

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