r/whatisthisfish

I was at a countrymax, there was a tank with a baby birchir, some kind of freshwater sharks and other things, but there were these 2 really cute ones i cant find when i try to look up what they are. One was melanistic and the other had grey shimmering scales, what made them so cute was the curiosity, big eyes and arched back. The head was somewhat flat with goldfish like big eyes, it had big scales and 4 barbles in the front of its mouth that went forward, but the mouth was more downward, it had a pudgy pidgeon like look to it. Cant find it at all, it was only a few inches large but might have been some kind of baby for all i know, not big at all, sorry for horrible quality of drawing.

Edit: I returned to the petstore and it was a black minnow shark!!

sorry for no picture.

i saw it at a zoo in wroclaw poland in the manatee exhibit

This little guy accidentally made it into our bag of cardinal tetras. What species is he? He won’t school with the cardinals and I’d like to get him some friends. :-). Google Lens is giving a lot of different suggestions.

I caught some shiners in this freshwater creek by me in western Pennsylvania. This little guy was in the mix.
Darter? Perch?

Caught in islamorada fl

Hi! I believe this is a copper rockfish, but would like verification. Caught in Northern California. I have a really hard time telling copper from gopher rockfishies. I catch a lot of these and know you’re only allowed to keep one copper so I have been playing it safe and throwing back if there’s any question. It just seems to me that since you’re only allowed one they must be scarce and it’s 60% of what I catch. The horizontal line even though very faint is what makes me think copper. Thanks!