Armored catfish!! They have super hard bony plates all along their bodies, sucker-like mouths, and algae-eating habits. They are commonly called “plecos” or “suckermouth catfish”. They are popular in the aquarium trade but are invasive in many places, causing ecological damage by burrowing into shorelines which leads to erosion, eating/sucking up native fish species eggs and outcompeting native fish for food. These fish are nocturnal, bottom-dwellers with strong spines and can even breathe air a
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Armored catfish are invasive and bad for the environment here in Florida so if you catch one, it’s illegal to release them back, like Tilapia as well. Their burrows create unnatural erosion here in our rivers which damages shorelines, but also they harass manatees and out-compete native fish species for food. | SHRKco
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Armored catfish? I see all kinds of things I’ve never seen before when I am looking at #dinosaurs in collections. I presume this is an armored catfish, of the family #Loricariidae, but that is just a presumption. Alas, my knowledge of fish is not deep, though in my youth, I did spend many an hour fishing for channel and flathead #catfish in Arizona. They don’t call it catching for a reason :-)… I once reeled in a flathead that exceeded 20 pounds. That was the night I learned their bite strength
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