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Bizarre Deep Sea Fish Dredged Up By Tsunami
spankfish writes "The following page features numerous great pictures of bizarre and creepy deep-sea creatures which have been dredged up by the recent tsunami and presented by normal divers. Fascinating stuff! The page is in Russian, but it's all about the pictures." Update: 01/15 18:02 GMT by J : As those of you who read the comments have already realized, this is an urban legend.
They may be weird fish, but they sure didn't wash up on shore from the tsunami! This story just isn't true.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/tsunami/creature.asp
One of those fish looks like the one in Finding Nemo. The one with the glowing light.
The first one had a co-starring role in The Faculty.
already!
Those are some freaky looking fish. Here is a Coralized link, it's much faster.
One day we WILL defeat the Goa'uld
http://www.sandstorming.com
It tasted like fish!
(Actually, I didn't see the picture because it's Slashdotted already, and Snopes says it's not real, anyway, but it tastes like fish.)
Wow... less than five minutes after being posted and with only 3 replies made, already the site has been slashdotted.
Those must have been some pretty pictures. Guess I'll see them next month....
Sweet! That one crab-like thing is awesome.
I hereby name it the Crabtacular spikeouchamus, or "Spiky Ubercrab"!
I never had a favorite animal before, but now I do. It's red, hard, and just plain intimidating. Almost like a Sauron of the seas. Sweeeeeeet!
One looks like it is mounted in perspex, or some kind of transparent resin, have to agree with previous posts, doesn't look like any of this is terribly recent. I see no pictures of tanned skin fishermen beneath palm trees and wooden boats - I might believe it then!
So he links to a bloody forum from the front page of slashdot -- and it's an old story that has already been debunked on fark and snopes!
Seriously dude, wtf is your problem.
I've seen some worthy news not present on Slashdot... But wasting bandwidth with something already debunked by Snopes hosted on a crap server that is slashdotted with only 8 comments... Argh!
mirror
Coincidentally, the third looks like my mother-in-law.
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Hey, it's Nemo! Boy did he let himself go...
Michael, take a day off, you apparently need it.
The more you know, the less you understand.
People are starving and scientists are splunking around for new fish species instead of helping? Not good PR for nerds. (if true)
Table-ized A.I.
and stop your whinging. It's not everyday that /. get's it wrong ;)
Da web server now sleeps wit' da fishes.
Can't see squat since the slashdot effect has taken hold already, but I from the Snopes info, I was sort of hoping to see some of Dr. Zoidberg's ancestors.
I have 1 million monkeys on a million year contract to make me a better sig.
That first one isn't so weird, there's one on Dali's Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory.
http://edition.cnn.com/interactive/space/0306/gall ery.unusual.fish/frameset.exclude.html
Yup, note the IDENTICAL PICTURES! Looks like these were dug up by researches some time ago. Sorry russia, you can't sell your lies here.
In Korea only old people were dredged up by the tsunami.
you had to go spoil all our fun!
Shit that matters
Some of the other fish are bizarre looking though. Anybody can point to other pics of weird deep sea fish? A long time ago there was a different slashdot story about deep sea fish with some great photos but I could never find it again.
You don't need Snopes for this one. An ocean wave is an energy wave; what got thrown up on shore by the tsunami was the water near the shore. Nothing from far or deep.
I imagine that any story which is comprised mainly of pictures that is linked to by slashdot is bound to be brought to its knees before it knew what hit it.
So I've decided to describe the oddities for the slashdotters with active imaginations! Plus I need to work off some caffiene before I hit the sack.
(1) A pallid creature of diminutive size which is characterized by a body shaped like the blade of a pocket knife. The edges of the body form a fin which bears remarkable similarity to a feather. The GI tract is visible as a dark tunnel connecting the throat area and leading halfway down its body to where what appears to be a tiny foot is attached! The foot may actually be an anus, but I'm no biologist and I don't read cyrillic.
(2) This photo shows two beasties in a half meter wide container. The first is a dark, eel-looking fellow with a beaty eye that is glazed over in a sort of post-mortem or thickly armored haze. It is shaped like a bottle rocket -- the back is long , cylindrical, and thin and it has a cylindrical gut of larger diameter attached to the back. His mouth is open a little but no teeth show.
The other fellow is a white squid which has red highlights on its body. The red is probably a result of its blood and viscera being partially drained into its container, but it is difficult to tell from the picture. It looks like a giant, man eating squid from the movies, except it is not giant.
(3) This picture shows a fish held in the hands of a proud seaman. The fish is probably 20 pounds heavy. It is dark like a bottom feeder and has a menacing look about it. The rear half of the animal has a fin on top that looks like an inch tall mohawk. An inch or two without a mohawk separates the rear fin from a threatening dorsal fin. The front of the dorsal fin is shaped like the fang of a snake. It is curved back from vertical, thin, and looks like it could inject a deadly poison (probably doesn't though). He has a large eye which glows an eerie yellow color, probably due to the camera's flash. The mouth is not very clear. To add to this fish's badass appearence, it looks like it has won several knife fights and thick scars crease its body.
(4) This one is ugly. It is in the same type of container as described in picture (2). I imagine that it was once just a very fat fish made of pancake mix, and one day it was dropped on the skillet that is the ocean floor. It is smooshed vertically and resembles "blinky" from the classic Simpson's episode. However, instead of the warm yellow tint of our favorite family, this fish has a mixture of red, brown, and white tints on its body and its face is white like a brie cheese. Come to think of it, its face looks like Marlon Brando. Creepy indeed.
(5) This critter is a sight to behold! It looks like an criptocletus dinosaur on a smaller scale. It has hand and feet fins that look oars. But the best thing about this animal is that it has a beak. It reminds me of an elongated duckbill platypus' beak, except that it is made of flesh instead of a hardened material. Its eye is black and big. I have relatives who eat fish eyes and I'm sure that it would be a wonderful treat for them.
OK, thats all I can handle for now. I hope this helps paint the picture.
http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/eb5a5caa966291a2d 52e47608bbdb171/index.html
Brought to you by Michael Sims. #1 Idiot on the web. Better lub up so Rob can give it to you some more!
The fish still looked like fish, with fins, a mouth and an eye on the visible side of their heads -- 3D views anybody? The creatures that didn't look like fish were obviously not fish. I saw a creature that looked like a squid and another that appeared to belong to the crab family.
This cant be ture, they are showing deep sea fish. The tsunami wave traveling at the deep sea would not have caused any distuction to the water bed and hence its these fish would not have been swept away.
Otherwise I have to say... PwN3D
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Lesse - if the page is in Russian, but got approved, there are two possibilities:
/. nowadays.
1) Mike doesn't know Russian, and approved it on summary and purty pictures alone.
OR
2) Mike knows Russian, and is just gullible.
Either way, it says something kinda depressing about the state of
DuPe
I thought I had seen these images before.
Sure enough, I had. From snopes we get the explanation:
they are genuine images of some rather strange deep-sea creatures, these photographs have nothing to do with the Indian Ocean tsunami. They date from mid-2003 and were taken as part of the NORFANZ voyage, a joint Australian-New Zealand research expedition conducted in May-June 2003 to explore deep sea habitats and biodiversity in the Tasman Sea. These photographs can be viewed on Australia's National Oceans Office web site.
No no. The fish were just a ruse from the submarine to make the other submarine think they were blowed up. Really!
Those aren't particularly weird fish. They may be weird and some of them are fish but this certainly doesn't make them weird fish.
Alot of the things in the water look pretty damn strange but I recognized alot of these animals from science shows and not even ones about deep water fish. While I can't comment about all of them several looked to be the type one might find in fairly shallow water.
So in response to those who said a Tsunami could bring up these fish I have to disagree, it certainly could stir up fish which live close to shore and even throw them on to land. While it isn't going to stir up fish from the deep ocean my guess is that these are all just fish that live near land but people normally don't notice.
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So Long, and Thanks For All The Fish.
Cool! Amazing Toys.
I am never going swiming again. :-P
Cheers,
Adolfo
Computer: $2000
Broadband Internet: $100
Being fooled by a hoax at Slashdot's main page: priceless
In post-soviet Russia, scams don't ask for money!
I like muppets.
shouldn't slashdot have some sort of journalistic responsibility to retract posts that are clearly hoaxes? many "legitimate" news sources often refer to slashdot as a real reference, and leaving hoaxes up un-changed seems unethical.
I saw these pics about 3 months ago...
Here's a Coral-cached version of the tsunami deep water fish photos page.
Anyone else thinking michael got Taco drunk, send him to bed with a shemale and blackmailed him into giving him this job? After this week I'm starting to think this is more likely than not..
I like muppets.
Some of them are already bionomically named proving that may be they were already found earlier.
http://svi.cs.hro.nl/~bart/fish/post-3-1105624964. jpg
Does that give anyone else thoughts of Half-life and "fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck?"
Maybe I should invest in a HEV suit..
I like muppets.
http://www.oceans.gov.au/norfanz/images/creature_f eatures/more_hr/slickheadMN.jpg
Yum!
Sorry, Yum!
:P
That is some great reading!
Female anglers grow to be more than a yard long and can produce millions of eggs in a single spawning. The males, which live alone until maturity, reach a length of only 4 to 6 inches.
And curse of all curses, all the females carry around flashlights, so they can't hide it.
Released in the deep, anglerfish eggs float to the surface, where the young fish, or fry, feed on plankton.
Mmmm...fish fry.
At first, male deep sea anglers are free swimming, with large eyes, no rod or lure, and no digestive tube. Their skin is smooth. When a female and male meet, the male grips her skin with his teeth as usual.
Makes you wonder who wrote this...
Meanwhile, the male grows in size and he grows a large testes. The rest of his internal organs disappear. He is now a part of the female deep sea angler!
Great, just great. He finally gets a pair, and she takes them away!
Fish or divers will feel almost no effect of a Tsunami. A wave will basically pass them by. It is only until the wave approaches land and has no depth to support it anymore and is forced to crash, will the full power and ferocity of the wave be felt. Just reading the title of the article is enough to spot that it was bogus. A group of divers survived that Tsunami. They felt something strange and surfaced and were surprised by all of the death and destruction around them.
Geez! Even I knew this was fake and I failed high school. Sometimes I wonder if the slashdot editors really are smarter than me.
Whats the point of a cure for cancer or aids? Most people who need it and dont have the money wont be able to afford it.
Snopes debunks this story But that's not going to stop me using it to recommend one of my favourite books: A Fish Caught in Time: The Hunt for the Coelacanth, by Samantha Weinberger. I couldn't put it down and I had to blink back a tear at one point. Not bad for a factual book.
Reality is defined by the maddest person in the room
Not only that, but the page hosting pictures of these critters has been hacked... sheesh... http://www.oceans.gov.au/norfanz/images/creature_f eatures/hr/
"I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears..."
I don't mean to be an asshole, but for your own sake, try not to use words like "cant", "ture", and "distuction". Also, "and hence its these fish..." doesn't really make sense. You might say "And hence these fish..." or something of the sort.
Sorry, but if you post something for the public to read, make it fit for public consumption, meaning take the time to check the spelling and grammar. Some people care.
Did Slashdot decide to suck all the bandwidth for a year from a poor Russian site?
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Well if you have actually *read* my post you would see that I specifically talked about near shore creatures. Anyone who has seen the videos of the tsunami should realize that it can pick up an move things near shore.
While you are surely right that divers in the deep sea will not be affected those close in to the shore, where the water has started to rise up, can very well be picked up and carried ashore.
If you liked this thought maybe you would find my blog nice too:
... nothing to sea.
#ahem#
No, I've seen it before, old images, old fishes, no tsunami.
"but it's all about the pictures"
welcome our bizarre deep sea fish overlords!
SEO Copywriter. Just Say ON
http://www.snopes.com/photos/tsunami/creature.asp
;)
I'm not sure they've translated the Russian word-for-word, and the layout is way different, but I think it's the same thing
I for one welcome our Slashdot-editor mocking overlords!
It falls off the tongue a little better, doesn't it?
SEO Copywriter. Just Say ON
What the fuck is this? SlashMichaelDot? Not only do you monopolize the front page, but the vast majority of your posts are either false, hoaxes, incorrect, rife with errors, highly biased, complete and utter bullshit or just plain boring.
Get your own damn blog you ass-whore!
Crap. Someone help me out here, how the hell do you turn that into a Soviet Russia joke?
Q: What's 5000 lawyers on a Thai beach?
A: A Second Christmas!
a wave has around the same depth under the water as it does height above..
Hey, all you people complaining that this is a hoax story, at least this way there are alot of mirrors... you can go to snopes, or the australian page, or any number of other pages that have these pictures... and you don't have to deal with babel getting the translation all wrong.
Groovy! SlashHax0rs are da mazter! However they could at least have put the dreaded goatfish on that page instead of their lame message!
Pun intended. Agreed, it's a hoax. Just like with a wave in a pipe, what you push in on one side does not come out at the other side. A wave travels a long way but the material in the pipe just shifts a little bit. And the basic model of a tsunami is just water bungeeing to and fro a bit and ending up where it started. No body of water is displaced very far.
But if you think of general fluid dynamics, it is possible that a relatively small body of water travels a long way(many miles, not many thousands of miles). It's plausible that sea creatures surface after such an earthquake. They would surface in the middle of the ocean. And then there's sea currents.
"Oh shift that Swedish tourist out of the way will you, Look there's an A. Gelatineous, fascinating, absolutely fascinating!!"
The spikes are a little more subdued, but they've got a big solid shell instead of Captain Crimson here's dinky little pretend shell, and honking great strong claws. I watched one can-opener the side of a twenty-litre milk can one day at Hearson's Cove near Dampier.
Despite all of these intimidating features, some maniacs mud-wrestle the damn things for fun.
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing
A hoax? -- Next you'll be telling me that Russia's NOT on the Indian Ocean after all!
You joke, but these fish are part of the human food chain. There are little/no rules on deep sea fishing in international waters. Commonly trawlers drag their nets across the deepest depths of the ocean catching these type of fish - apparantly plentiful. The fish then get processed into feed for Salmon farming, or even into condiments and flavourings for everyday food.
. THis is a worrying phenomenon for environmentalists - because we know so little about deep sea fish we have no idea if we're making species extinct or disrupting the natural ocean food chain.
Ok, I reread your post and your logic is correct. You got the type of animals wrong though, so that is what threw me off on your logic. Those animals are from a very deep sea environment. We are talking several thousands of feet deep and a 100% dark environment.
... I just wanna know how you say "Slashdotted" in Russian.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens.
Dredged up by the Tsunami, huh?
So is that what happened to Terry's Frog?
"Everything you know is wrong. (And stupid.)"
Moderation Totals: Wrong=2, Stupid=3, Total=5.
I've found that my posts don't format quite right w/o a sig.
Two things popped into my head before I read the Snopes article:-
(1) Aren't they well-preserved specimens considering that most people would be *far* too busy with other things to notice them and take them out of the sun before they decayed badly?
(2) If they were really new deep-sea creatures, wouldn't beasties from that depth have exploded upon depressurisation?
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w00t for the adams reference
judging from the article maybe dolphins are more intelligent...
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Status: False
Example: This article, and many, many, many others.
Origins: It seems that many people consider that a popular source of information must, by its very nature, be reliable. "With enough eyes, all bugs are shallow" is a common argument in support of this theory. But as can be seen with a cursory glance at the Slashdot "news" site, it just ain't so.
This dichotomy has led many people to assume that the so-called "editors" of Slashdot are nothing more than an infinite number of monkeys, but a little logic will demonstrate why this is also unlikely:
- An infinite number of monkeys can be expected to produce the works of Shakespeare. Shakespeare had talent, integrity and an instinctive grasp of narrative and logic. Whoever is writing Slashdot articles shows none of these skills. Advantage: Monkeys.
- Despite all this, Shakespeare's spelling was appalling. He even misspelled his own name! While the spelling abilities of Slashdot editors are certainly not up to the standard one would expect for one's household pets or pond algae, they're not as bad as ol' Will. Advantage: Slashdot.
However, the telling point is this: Monkeys are not aquatic. Thus, they have no interest in penguins. Slashdot editors, on the other hand, can think of little else. It seems far more likely that the Slashdot editors are an infinite number of penguins; the penguin's flippers are slightly more suited to keyboards than the monkeys hands which, despite having agile fingers, lack the opposable thumb essential to the operation of the space bar.It's certainly easy to see how this urban legend got started, but as usual, a little logic goes a long way.
Barbara "anyway monkeys are way too bright" Spoofelson
I have discovered a truly remarkable
then don't stand too close to it, okay? (messy photo warning) And certainly, don't try to blow it up with explosives! There's even a wiki these days.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
There's something creepy about the way the fish seems to be resentfully staring straight at the camera.
That's no fish. I'd recognize my ex-mother-in-law's glare anywhere!
The Chronic *WHAT* les of Narnia!
Indeed. Russia was only on the Indian Ocean for one day: December 26th, 2004. Soon after, the water retreated again, revealing a host of other countries (such as Thailand, India, ...), which came between Russia and the Ocean.
Just remember this when purchasing those nice Arizona beachfront properties: California won't be gone forever!
While on the subject of the deep sea creatures (and hoaxes)
Is it true that those creatures became so adapted to high pressure deep waters that when they are taken out to the surface they explode (or something similar)?
Truth or yet another myth ?
I swear I've been trolled by some of those things.
fast as fast can be. you'll never catch me.
I can't see how the Tsunami would have affected undercurrents. Just what sort of reports have their been about sea life being affected? http://www.david-duval.com/
News for Fishermen. Bizarre deep sea stuff that get's dredged up by Trolls.
It really doesn't matter to me if they came from Australia or a tsunami; all I want to know is, can I eat them?
Too bad this turned out to be a dupe. It reminds me of this Chilean Blob, which was interpreted as Cthulhu effluvia floating from R'lyeh to Chile. Well, the Elder Gods have time to wait...
is this really happening? Am I actually seeing this post on slashdot?
This is something I'd expect to see on stileproject or some other random crap site like banged up.
what has the world come to!
I was going to put "reads slashdot" under the HOBBIES / INTERESTS portion of my resume but now I'm having second thoughts...
in the bonds, ppka
Here are some other deep sea creatures washed up by the tsunami.
Proverbs 21:19
...are belong to us!
I guess not. Why don't you watch 'Manufacture of Consent' by Noam Chomsky - a dire outlook of mass media and the lies they tell you every day. Then think about opening your mouth to the rest of us.
The poor little Russian server is crawling, so regardless of the authenticity of the pictures, they're neet enough that I posted a mirror anyways:
http://logjammin.org/openwater
But it happens me not so often to make an obligatory folklore joke: In Soviet Russia, bizzare fish web forum is slashdotted by You!
Anyway, I got a text from pages and yes, I can read azbuka, but no images. Any fellíow slashdotters made a mirror? Pics are too fresh for google cache.
There you are, staring at me again.
Strange Sea Critters
I forget exactly where I got the picture, but it was a Japanese picture posting site at least half a year ago. I think I saw the huge spiky crab too. I just didn't save that.
Anyone know what it says on the board?
The "scary" thing about that is not the beasties themselves, but the fact that commercial practices have forced fishermen to those extremes.
In communist Russia, the fake story edits you!
This one here looks like it's from Spy vs. Spy.
I think that I know why these things are only found in deep water... They cannot stand the sight of each other, so go down to where it is dark.
Look at this CNN piece./ gallery. unusual.fish/intro.html
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/space/0306
It's a lie. These people ripped this stuff off the website. And Slashdot, being jackasses, fell for it all -- yet again. It's really quite a running joke, the assclowns that run this site.
If you're interested in seeing more bizarre sea creatures, check out the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Deep Sea exhibit. My favorite: "In some species of anglerfish, the males are tiny, with simplified body features, and they live as parasites on the females." Heh, heh.
In Soviet Russia, tsunami dredges fish.
There are 10 kinds of people in the world; those that understand binary and those that do not.
Some of those look strange... weird.. maybe one could even say non Euclidean
In other news, astronomers report the stars are moving into a once-in-a-millennium alignment...
Curiosity was framed. Ignorance killed the cat.
But how do they taste?
Macintosh humor! MacComedy.com
Remember, folks:
That is not dead which can eternal lie,
and with strange eons even death may die.
Cthulhu commands you to worship these harbingers of the Old Ones!
I'm the stranger...posting to
some story about a chick riding a motorcycle through chernobyl ?
I appreciate slashdot not for the news stories, but the invaluable comments. Slashdot is like a huge forum with dozens of new topics each day.
:-)
Anyone who thinks otherwise is in denial.
- shazow
I think I see George Bush, Tony Blair and John Howard amongst the collection.
Amen to that. Got to laugh when people bash CBS news for doing one report in the vein of Fox News. Where's the outrage from the right about Armstrong Williams?
Visit www.seriouslythough.com
Sir, the preferred phrase is "janitor". They sift through trash.
It is a site that most of the time links to other stories. I always get a laugh when the /. editors will post a link, then say we previously ran a story on this topic...no you didnt, you posted a couple sentences written by someone else and a link.
:))
It would be interesting to see what % of "stories" the editors post that turn out to be false or a dupe.
Ah well...gotta get those banner views (unless you are blocking them
Wariac
It's ironic that your name is logicnazi. Either you have chosen your words poorly in that post or you are logically wrong.
They may be weird and some of them are fish but this certainly doesn't make them weird fish.
It certainly does make some of them weird fish. If you agree they are weird (you used the word "may", I realize, so I may be taking liberties here) and that some of them are fish, then logically that makes some of them weird fish.
As an analogy, if the food in my fridge is organic and some of it is meat, then I must have organic meat in my fridge.
These "weird fish" are brought up in enormous amounts every day by the world's deep-sea bottom trawling fleet, mostly from France, Spain and Russia. I was part of a Greenpeace expedition last fall in the North Sea, and I saw them throw away as bycatch tons of fish, with eyes popping out from the change in pressure, including some shown in the Snopes website. Scientists know next to nothing about the deep seas, but the fishing industry is right now destroying some of the last pristine environments left on Earth.
The election's over. Get over your bitterness, already. People are getting sick of hearing about George Bush this and George Bush that and Right Wing/Left Wing Conspiracies.
This whole mess just reminds me of one of my favorite comic strips.
welcome these dumbass articles
Slashdot promotes editors on the basis of incompetence alone. It'd be silly to think that exceeding the criteria under which you were hired would get you terminated. I mean...say you get a job because you're really good at Java. You show your boss the best Java app ever written. He won't fire you for it. The same process applies here.
WHO STOLE MORBO's FOOD!! I will eat HIM!
I'm here for the experience, not the Hyperbole.
According to Richard Dawkins "The Ancestor's Tale" animal number two is the Gulper eel (Eurpharynx pelecanoides). It is technically not an eel and is capable of swallowing whole prey larger than itself. A slack distensible stomach holds the digesting prey and hangs down only when full. It lures prey into the vicinity of the mouth with a luminous lure at the tip of the tail.
Cool.
Second one down, on the right. A spitting image, I'd say.
All billy goats gruff follow alternate route.
Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.
hehehe. Michael Sims! Great journalist! Hijacker of domains and destroyer of the Censorware Project!
All hail the great dork.
This creature came swooping down and gobbled them up.
Not meaning to be a spoilsport, but those pics are from an Aussie/NZ
e .h tm
research expedition in mid 2003.
http://www.oceans.gov.au/norfanz/CreatureFeatur
The links at the top of the page include all these 'tsunami' pics.
They're actually all from the Tasman Sea so have a think about that
next time someone wants to head down to the beach.
Acedemic work is frequently more extreme than the debate, for abstract thought is less bound by social norms. You won't find many acedemics keen on the Creationists' "teach the controversy" policy presciption, for example. These articles on "balanced reporting" illustrate the problem.
Acedmics will however put forward a variety of theories, but they will do so collectively, not individually.
Wikileaks, no DNS
Ohh, oops. I'm not a fish expert so my memory about those being shallow water fish may be completly bad. your sure these are the type of fish which never go in shallow water??
If you liked this thought maybe you would find my blog nice too: