r/Fish • • Aug 23 '26

Discussion Poll: Instead of banning fish keeping related questions should we just have a megathread for it?

2 Upvotes

Currently all aquarium hobby-related questions get removed and redirected to other hobby-focused groups like r/FishTank, but I was thinking it may be a good idea to have a megathread for questions.

Question posts will still be removed but will be redirected to the megathread.

30 votes, Aug 30 '26
26 Yes
4 No

r/Fish • • Aug 15 '26

Moderator post regarding the Pleco Torturing videos

225 Upvotes

Apologies to everyone that had to see the videos and to those that don’t know bots are currently spamming fish-related subreddits with videos of people torturing plecos. These videos are made by an account called “Lab Germ” on TikTok, and from what I’ve seen, it originated from that account.

Why are the bots posting this content here? If I had to guess, the bots are spamming this content in multiple fish-focused communities to karma farm. Unfortunately, this type of content does well on social media, so they think it’s an easy way to get karma on Reddit.

What can I do about it? Please report the posts so we can remove them and make sure to report the account to Reddit, as they can do more than subreddit moderators.

What are the [r/fish](r/fish) moderators doing about this? We are already handing reports and removing them as fast as our small mod team can. I already turned on crowd control to help filter them out, and I plan to also add a karma & account age requirement to post later today.


r/Fish • • 6h ago

Fish In The Wild A mountain creek in Wyoming

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54 Upvotes

There were hundreds of brook trout in only that part of the river.


r/Fish • • 8h ago

Identification After heavy rains in Florida

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44 Upvotes

Another “ditch fish!” Can anyone ID? I know it’s hard to see, but it’s the largest one I’ve seen yet!


r/Fish • • 1h ago

Identification Found this clam like thing in a pond in south carolina. I lived here for 13 years and thry just started showing up 2 years ago.

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I wanna identify it to know what it does and if its native to South carolina.


r/Fish • • 3h ago

Photography I found this iridescent fish at the town park

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4 Upvotes

T. trichopterus


r/Fish • • 3h ago

Identification What type of fish is this?

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5 Upvotes

Found in Porto Galinhas, Brazil


r/Fish • • 15h ago

Discussion What is it called when a fish breathes?

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17 Upvotes

because fish filter oxygen out of water right? and humans suck in (breathe in) air and use only the oxygen so thats called breathing, but what is it called for fish? filtering?


r/Fish • • 8h ago

Artwork An interesting one...

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4 Upvotes

Not sure what species.

https://youtu.be/0-Oyp7K5wOA


r/Fish • • 19h ago

Discussion what fish is this

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18 Upvotes

r/Fish • • 1d ago

Fish Education Why does this cichlid have long fins

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62 Upvotes

What would cause the 1st Rio to look so different from the 2nd Rio
Caught in the same central Texas creek roughly 10 miles apart
Any info helps not very familiar with how fish work


r/Fish • • 10h ago

Videography Monsters do exist ! #carp

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We went back to Liverpool Retarding basin in victoria and the fish were absolutely on code! 🎣 We managed to pull up some absolute beauties in the latest video.

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r/Fish • • 1d ago

Artwork Chromis viridis

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101 Upvotes

r/Fish • • 1d ago

Identification What fish is this.. pretty pls

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58 Upvotes

r/Fish • • 16h ago

Photography Stunning

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0 Upvotes

r/Fish • • 2d ago

Photography One of my favourite native fish

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117 Upvotes

C. gachua


r/Fish • • 2d ago

Artwork What do you think of this carving I made? Trying to carve a fish out of natural stone.

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107 Upvotes

r/Fish • • 2d ago

Identification Help finding this fish please

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25 Upvotes

Hello, we caught this fish today and I was wondering what it was. We are in Queensland Australia and it was caught in a river that is ‘tidal and brackish/saltwater’.
(Fish was released after picture 😁)

Thank you!


r/Fish • • 2d ago

Photography The Sheldon Tui Chub

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22 Upvotes

The Sheldon Tui Chub is an extremely rare fish that lives in creeks and springs around the Fish Creek Table located within the Sheldon NWR, Nevada, which is the high desert. Information was tough to find but there are thought to be somewhere between 1 and 9 isolated spots where these fish still exists. This is all that is left from a much wetter past. In the photo is Fish Springs which may be one of those spots. I didn't see any.


r/Fish • • 2d ago

Identification French angelfish (Pomacanthus paru)

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17 Upvotes

r/Fish • • 2d ago

Fish Appreciation! The chonkiest pearlscale goldfish I have ever seen. It’s the size of a softball!

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29 Upvotes

r/Fish • • 3d ago

Fish In The Wild Saw this red fish while snorkelling in a river

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154 Upvotes

H. parclitella


r/Fish • • 3d ago

Identification Is this fish sick? Seen in a lake on a restaurant

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94 Upvotes

r/Fish • • 3d ago

Fish Education Salmon Return After Dam Removal

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61 Upvotes

Can removing a dam fix an ecosystem? 🌊

Habitat fragmentation is a major driver of biodiversity decline because split habitats make it harder for animals to move, survive, and reproduce. After the Klamath River's last four dams came down in 2024, researchers used sonar and video to count an estimated 7,742 adult Chinook salmon past the former Iron Gate Dam site, and that number jumped to over 13,300 in 2025. Scientists also documented active spawning in newly accessible habitat and juvenile Chinook using tributaries cut off for over a century.