colleague of mine who worked for the Environment Agency had a call from a member of the public who said that there was a large strange-looking fish dying by the bank of the local canal. My friend and his assistant found the fish, which was just about dead. It measured over 3 feet long and eventual identification confirmed the fish to be an Oxydoras (Pseudodoras) niger. Someone must have bought this large Dorad as a baby, perhaps oblivious to its potential size; they must have fed it well and, like Topsy, it just grew and grew. When they finally could not house or cope with it any longer they dumped it into the cold waters of the canal. The fact that such a beautiful and gentle creature should have endured such an awful death does not bear thinking about.



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