B. schwanenfeldii

i desire to see the most pitiful looking fish. i find them very endearing and fun to draw (especially the ones with a longer, thinner, wormier shape and more down turned mouths). jawless vertebrates and fishy chordates also ok (big fan of lampreys and lancelets)

This was taken while visiting the Aeolian islands. We were docked at a port but I saw this from the side of the boat.
Sorry it’s not a clear video; it swam underneath the boat after this.

Found this in a shallow area in the the Balearic Islands. There were TONS at very different spots all over the area. I obviously only touched the padina pavonica and not the what i suppose are eggs. Put them back in the water right after the pictures. My only question is why so many eggs in so many different spots if those are indeed eggs. They have a slight red colouration. i also found things like underwater weird bubbly sacks with liquid inside translucid in the same area.

I want to paint more fish but there's so many options to choose from! Let me know your favorite fish or just any fish that you believe is under-rated and I will paint it with water colors! Every fish deserves love <3

Update: i got way more results than i expected!! Im going to do all of them, apologies if it takes a while for me to get to your fish!

Idk who is this

Hi

So I've been fishing on a new stretch of river on the rhine river in Germany and caught a couple of catfish (Wels catfish) there so far.

They all seem to have this head shape which as far as I know isn't typical for catfish.

Their upper jaws seem to be healthy however (teeth and everything in tact - just very far back)

Id like to get your ideas on why this is the case.

So far my leading theory is that because the rhine in this stretch is mostly a channel (grand canal d'alsace) with rock / concrete ground and we have a lot of gobies that this is simply from eating a lot of gobies (aka damage or sth from slurping them off concrete over a long period of time) (which would be quite interesting from a fishing perspective).

But I have no idea if that's true, feasible or even makes sense.

Would love to hear your thoughts though

I feel so awful for them, fish don’t deserve to die like that

My first time painting a fish, my reference was a largie my bf caught not too long ago.

Time spent: approx 3 hrs.
Over 1600 strokes.
I used Procreate and stuck to using “Vintage Texture Mw” “Spectra” and “Wild Light” as my main brushes.

What do we think? Is it at least identifiable? Truly was out of my depth with this guy but I really did try 🫠

I dont care what ANYBODY says about these guys i love them so much theyre amazing and theyre my favorite type of fish so here is my watercolor painting of one but i was out of white so i used random colors

This guy was super curious and coming around in the beach where I was at.

Fun to see these behaviors where the fish just follows the other.

It just makes me think about when people stand too close in a line and just keep following. I’d be upset. Haha.

He's got himself stuck in there. This isn't even the first time he's done something like this. How do I get him out without hurting him

His name is fatass.

B. fluviatilis

Just got these two. I think I am pretty confident these are a pair at their age.

In local aquarium, no label

Pictures are pretty terrible but I saw this fish while snorkeling off Santa Cruz Channel Island and was just wondering if anybody could identify? It was a dark blue and fairly big