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Monday, March 4, 2013

Silver Dollar fish


Here is a gentle fish, quite different from its relatives, the pacus and piranhas! They can live to ten years. Formerly this specimen has a companion, probably male, and it did not like and killed it by repeatedly ramming it.




Fish Animalia/Chordata/Actinopterygii/Characiformes/Characidae/Serrasalminae/[Metynnis, Myleus, Myloplus, Mylossoma
LocationDiliman, QC, Philippines
CameraFujifilm Finepix HS25EXR bridge camera
PhotographerDr. Ernesto P. Adorio
AttributionsEngr. Daniel Adorio(aquarium owner)
ReferenceWikipedia

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