Armoured Cat fish
I went to Jay Blanchard Park today to collect Water Hyacinth and Water Lettuce plants. I'll be using these exotic and invasive plants for Turtle food at Back to Nature Wildlife Refuge.
I removed:
48 Water Hyacinths
15 Water Lettuces
20 Cesar Weeds
Several tangled balls of fishing line
I scraped off the egg cases of many exotic/invasive Channel Apple Snails, I bet these eggs would make great food or something.
I cut down one medium sized Chinese Talllow Tree. I counted ten large exotic/invasive/Armoured Cat Fish in the shallow water. I've got to find a way to caputre them. Some people call these fish Algea Eaters, or Sailfin Catfish.
The picture above is three Armoured Cat Fish that some guys had captured by hand on another day. The guys didn't know they were exotic/invasives. They walked out into the water beyond the Cat Fish then grabbed them from behind. Armoured Cat Fish cannot live out of water like Walking Catfish. These three died after about ten minutes. If I want to capture them like these guys did, I'd have to come to the park prepared to do some swimming.
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