Although very similar to my Mohawk species, this critter is actually a mutant. In this screen capture, he looks a little squished; he really has a longer body.
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| Aquarium Goodies: Tanks, Objects, Music (under construction) | Weirdoes: If you like bizarre little mutants, here they are! |
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This
fish won a runner-up place in the Maxis El-Fish Fish Contest. I
won a fishie watch! This is the Garcia Fish, indigenous to
the psychadelic waters off the Bay of San Francisco, who's hypnotic
swimming can twist a man's mind like a candy cane...! Although very similar to my Mohawk species, this critter is actually a mutant. In this screen capture, he looks a little squished; he really has a longer body. |
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One day I was playing with the fish and a nice guppy-like one popped
out with, -- I swear! -- an American flag on its dorsal
fin! Well, naturally, I had to work with this fish... although
the fin was flag-like, the other colours just wouldn't do. No, I
wanted a sky-blue fish to fly the stars and stripes. Do you know
how hard it is to get a fish's fin colours to stay the same while the
body colours change? Oh, I did everything! I evolved, I
bred RWBs to RWBs, to the Blue Spruce for body colour, I refined, I
screamed, I cursed. I don't exaggerate about the 500 generations and iterations on this sucker. But here it is, the red white & blue flying over a blue sky. |
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And, of course, there is a Night version. You will see a great many of my fish have this guppy-ish shape; a lot of them were spinoffs of this massive breeding program. Also, I like this shape! |
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This looks like an unassuming little mutant fish, until it schools in a
tank and you can see them swim about. They have large, wing-like
magenta fins and the whole school "dances" gracefully across the screen
in synchronous motion. These are one of my favorite tank fish, and were originally named "Magenta Winged Butterfly." When I restored my fish from tape, I couldn't find the fish named Sugarplum Fairy (or its 8-letter equivalent), and I was disconsolate! Fortunately, I found the MWB fish, and discovered it was my treasured beauty, and have since renamed it. |
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It's big, it's blue, it has distinctive scale edges kinda looking like
a pine cone... it's the Blue Spruce! Actually, it was going to be
called the Blue Moose after a plane in the TaleSpin cartoon, but...
that'd be just plain silly. |
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It has the distinctive tapered, black-banded thorax, and the long
dangly ventral fins like wasp legs. Fish are much nicer than
bugs, though! Despite the very odd shape, this fish is not a mutant. |
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An unusual pale colour, plus the sorta mummy-wrapping purple stripes. |
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This fish started out at the head being a sort of rainbow fish, but
decided to expand its reddish-orange section. |
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A very sleek shape, though non-mutated. It also has a distinctive orange oval on its flank. |
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It's serrated... and um, tango-y. Okay, I was in a creative mood
when I came up with this name, but it suits this fish. Black
head, orange vase-shaped body with nice strong scale patterning. |