What the heck am I???

[ElijahTurtle]

For those of you at the G2G that asked about these. Here are a couple of pics. I have no idea what they are. Caught them in a pond in Arlington last year. They are about 3" long at this point.
Here's the best shots i could get at the moment.

Any one have a clue as to what they are? They need a new home too....

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q83/elijahtturtle/100_2441.jpg

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q83/elijahtturtle/100_2438.jpg

[masroberts9]

wow, those are 3"? i definitely couldnt help with that.

[ElijahTurtle]

Well maybe 2.5" I dunno, I never stood them up against the door frame to mark their height...
Yeah I really don't pay any attention to them any more. They're like my step-children fishes. :hehe:

[masroberts9]

i have some frontosa that might give them a home :hehe:...............in the substrate.

[budwick weiser]

hmmm.... a blue tilapia? Oreochromis aureus

http://www.bio.txstate.edu/~tbonner/txfishes/BLUE%20TILAPIA,%20juvenile.jpg

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yet another reason why the list i found should be made a sticky!!

[pam916]

Do we have blue tilapia established in local waters? Crappie maybe?

[budwick weiser]

it's on the texas fish list

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it's also tagged as a nonnative species

[IC Casey]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure they are established here. That's along the lines I was thinking, after going through about 50 fish pictures.

[ElijahTurtle]

Hmm... Looks close, but the eyes are red on my fish.

[budwick weiser]

well... the fish in the picture is dead... may have something to do with the lack of redness.

[poel_19]

Labidesthes sicculus?

[fishman76092]

Agree-
Its Oreochromis spp.

[AndrewH]

They can reach 15 inches

:eek: