#moth catfishes

[aquariuminfobureau]

Erethistes hara (alternatively Hara hara) is the archetypal moth or butterfly catfish, for which reason I shall describe this species as the common moth catfish, though I have also seen it labelled as 'Kosi hara'. Moth catfishes are collectively known as the 'haras', although the genus Hara is very arguably a junior synonym of Erethistes, and does not properly include all moth catfishes when it is regarded as distinct. Sources indicate that E. hara reaches lengths of 13 centimeters, but a more common length would be closer to 8 centimeters, or around 3 inches long.

Recorded from the Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Irrawaddy drainage systems of Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepal, and India, this moth catfish is an inhabitant of slow moving rivers and hillstreams. Moth catfish can be difficult to identify to species, even for catfish experts, and more than one species may be sympatric. For this reason fish that are members of different species, may be exported and labelled together in the same shipment. Their precise identity is little to fret about.

The genus Erethistes is part of a cluster of fishes, which also includes the homalopterid loaches, that colonised the northern regions of India via the 'Assam gateway'. Their origins are in the area from southern China, south into northern, non-tropical mainland Southeast Asia. The Assam gateway - the eastern Himalayas, Assam, and Burma - is a melting pot for fishes of different geographical origins, and also possesses its own endemic genera. The region as a conduit has allowed fishes of eastern origin, to colonise as far west as Kashmir.

Though the catfishes are among the more familiar clades of aquarium fishes, not all subclades of catfish are equally represented in the aquarium trade. Thus a good range of their diversity and disparity, remains obscure or unknown to the average aquarium manager, although they are surely familiar with certain loricaroids - the 'corys' and 'plecs' of South America - and probably the genus Synodontis, the Pimelodus pictus, and a few tankbusters. Among the less familiar catfishes, are species suited or ordinarily sized home aquariums, such as the moth catfishes.

Erethistids are a monophyletic clade of Asiatic catfishes, known collectively as the moth catfishes, that together with some related Asian catfishes, including the enormous goonch, comprise a clade named the sisoroids. Some of the sisoroid subclades, the amblycipitids and akysids, are obscure even to non-specialists. The sisoroids may be more familiar, because they include the mighty goonch, a sensational species which attracts dubious folklore, and the attention of game fishermen. Although sisoroids are not the most diverse or best studied catfishes, comparing the megafaunal goonch to the moth catfishes, illustrates the good disparity in this important Asian clade

A bone of contention involves the morphological similarities, between the erethistid moth catfishes of Asia, and the South American banjo catfishes, though a close kinship makes very little geographical sense. Nonetheless the morphological support for the relationship is robust, and is quite hard to dismiss, even though parallel evolution is thought to be responsible for similarities between other pairs of similar Old and New World catfish clades; the apparent closeness of the Neotoipical pimelodoids to the Asian bagrids, or of the African squeakers to the Neotropical doradoids.

The anatomy of catfishes is subject to a lot of parallel evolution. Indeed one study points out a good deal of similarity between sisoroids, loricaroids such as 'corys' and 'plecs', frogmouth catfishes, walking and stinging catfishes, and banjo catfishes. Though erethistid moth catfishes and aspredinid banjo catfishes look and behave similarly, which might lead to false positives, the degree of coincidence required would be extraordinary, much beyond, for example, the resemblance placental canids and sabertooth cats, to certain marsupial counterparts.

The waters of the rivers Hooghly, Kosi and Bagmati, were E. horai is known to be a common species, possess pH values that fluctuate per the month, but should be thought of as circumneutral, and they are lower after the monsoon, and most elevated before it. A pH value of 6.5 to 8 might be recommended in the aquarium, for fish from these rivers. The best advice would be to avoid extremes of pH, and not to create too sudden shifts in its value. The water temperature recorded in these rivers is 15 to 36 degrees centigrade, so ordinary tropical fish tank temperatures should suffice.

Though these catfish have a reputation as difficult to acclimatize to aquarium life, and for rejecting dried proprietary foods, they should readily accept defrosted foods as provided for insectivorous freshwater fish. The most important aquascaping requirement for these catfish, is a soft substrate, but living, growing plants are also authentic. These peaceful little catfishes are compatible together, and with schooling community fishes such as small cyprinids from the same kinds of riverine habitat.

[anabantoidei]

T-poses in front of your worm to assert dominance I guess

[mothandpidgeon]

MOTHY. It's Catfish Day and I am here with a question. Unshowered Frankie after 5 days in the jungle: could you make that...work?

(also I think about Frankie's sex tape weekly so thank you for that and I adore you and your writing and your whole energy and I'm glad you're here)

Thank you for blessing me with this ask. I am willing to make any kind of Frankie work despite my best judgements.

I imagine he comes out sweaty and smelly and BLOODY but also so needy. He’s been at the edge of death and he’s ready to put it all behind him and lose himself in you.

“Frankie, you stink,” you tell him as he’s nuzzling into your neck, kissing and biting. “Shower first. I’m not going anywhere.”

His skin is covered in a layer of grime, hair caked under his hat, fingernails packed with dirt and dried blood. The scent coming off of him is ripe— iron and sulphur and the spicy musk of body odor. It makes you gag yet you can’t stop inhaling him.

You haven’t even been able to get an explanation out of him as to where the fuck he’s been. As soon as he laid eyes on you, his lips were crashing into yours, hands pushing your shirt up. Was he crying?

“Uh uh,” he grunts. “Now.”

His dirty fingers are under the waistband of your panties, circling you with precision and desperation. Your body doesn’t care about what your mind knows, that he’s absolutely filthy and you’re going to end up with a UTI if he keeps doing that. You’re melting and clenching under his touch.

“Shit, Frankie. Okay. Fuck me,” you hiss.

And he’s more than happy to oblige.

[misty-moth]

I want to post something but have nothing important to say…

…so here is my cat fishing.

Look at this idiot 🥺 there are no fish in the living room 🥹

[tothesolarium]

Thinking about how I kinda pitched my story as a hell striving for utopia, with a lil hint of the moral authority being the “mad/bad guys”

When it’s more like, a hopeful critique of Utopia. It’ll always be struggle to make a safe place, but that struggle with keep Many happy and safe, even if not perfect

And that the moral authority, while being tortures are also soul themselves that have experienced a millennia of grief and been traumatized by their family as well as the memory of an earth that can no longer connect to, and really want to bring Justice to a life they feel will never be just

And how there’s whole other parts of hell with their own magic rules, coping with grief by making reality a dream. Spirits crafting their own rules on the backs of sleeping demons, demons acting as if they’re just a tree to watch what will happen, quiet nudges, or a world unlike anything seen before

[smileymoth]

I fucked up my lithography drawing #slay

Made 1 tree too dark on accident. Cant fix it either. LOL

[just-my-hyperfixations]

Hey watch this v

[ouiyoung]

Hello! I still have commissions open! I have a couple medical bills to pay off that total just under $1000 USD, so if you’ve ever wanted a pair of earrings from me now would be a super awesome time!!!

Fish Earrings & Charms

Here are a huge group of the earrings I have made! These projects have made me so happy and I love being able to create these for people of their fishies or of other animals they love!

Interested in a pair? Here’s my Etsy listing!

[tranquilwilds]

I like to think about non/alterhumans in their everyday lives.

There is a rabbit who made your sandwich.

An elderich being teaches a math course.

The local werewolf takes care of the elderly.

Rams make up the staff at a pub nearby.

Dragons make excellent library workers.

Your favorite cashier happens to be a lion.

Your overly punctual classmate is a moth, and your less than punctual classmate is a hummingbird.

A goldfinch shops at a gift shop.

A catfish tours you through a historical site.

Across the street is a banshee who is walking their dog.

Cats work on their computers in small cafes.

And you move through your life as you are.

We are unique but certainly not alone. Your community is around you, even if you do not see it outright.

Happy Howling!

[doktoptaxa]

REIMAGINED WINGS OF FIRE DRAGONS

This is a small project about redesigning Wings of Fire dragons with a small bit of speculative biology. Not evolution though; these creatures would barely evolve naturally.

Important mention: all of these redesigns are inspired by real life animals and creatures from Monster Hunter series. I do not own the originals, these are just fanart. Also, this artstyle isn't common for me, I mostly draw cartoony stuff.

SANDWINGS: inspired by scorpions, sand vipers, fennec foxes and sand cats, and also desert lizards.

SKYWINGS: inspired by eagles, hawks and pterosaurus.

LEAFWINGS: inspired by leaf-tailed geckos, anteaters and chameleons.

RAINWINGS: inspired by chameleons, boas and octopi.

NIGHTWINGS: inspired by bats and cave animals.

ICEWINGS: inspired by polar animals in general.

SEAWINGS: inspired by seals and catfish.

MUDWINGS: inspired by water buffalos and pseudosuchia.

BEETLEWINGS: an insect micry.

HIVEWINGS and SILKWINGS: inspires by wasps and moths. Descendants of BeetleWings.

Important mention 3: Lizard/Freedom. Because she is practically nothing out of these.

I'm taking requests on drawing canon characters with these designs! See it on my page.

[whatsnewalycat]

like a moth(man) to a flame(thrower)

pairing: frankie “catfish” morales x f!reader

summary: just a deeply self-indulgent meet cute with frankie at a halloween house party.

rating: t

words: 900+

warnings: drinking alcohol, party

notes: happy halloweeeeen!

—

In lieu of red solo cups, a long-standing tradition in house party lore, your cousin opted to get black solo cups. Which was a nice touch, you had to give it to her.

You picked one off the tall stack and wrote your name on it in metallic sharpie. As you ladled the crimson “fangria” into your cup, someone dressed as Richard Simmons bounced through the cramped kitchen behind you on their way to the basement.

Sound erupted from downstairs when they opened the door, a racket of inebriated conversation and Monster Mash by Bobby "Boris" Pickett & The Crypt Kickers, then dampened when they closed it.

A skunky odor hit you after a two-second delay. You turned to look at the door, taking a sip of the fruity wine concoction, and considered joining the livelier half of the party. The floorboards beneath your feet bumped from the bass, as if trying to convince you.

If you didn’t taken one more look around before submitting to its call, you might’ve missed him.

This guy, leaning against a dining room table with his arms of his bomber jacket crossed over his powder blue hoodie. Army green cargo pants, sunglasses, a flame thrower strapped to his back. Even the big, dumb cowboy hat thing. It caused you to burst out laughing, recognition tickling your fancy.

He did a double take, only a glance at first, probably just sourcing the noise. But his attention quickly returned, alongside a crooked smile, lingering on you for a few seconds before he turned back to his conversation with an eerily spot-on Jason Voorhees.

Your pulse skittered. There was something in the way he did this. Intent.

Only another moment went by before he parted ways with Jason and started towards you.

Acting casual, he grabbed a cup from the tower and wrote his name on it, asking you, “How’s it going?”

“MacReady.”

He raised his eyebrows in question, “What?”

You pointed to his getup, “The Thing, right?”

“Oh!” Understanding brightened his features. A big, charming smile spread across his face when he looked down at himself, nodding, “Yeah, MacReady from The Thing.”

“I love it,” you grinned.

“Thanks.”

Drifting a little closer, he studied your costume. Confusion creased his forehead. He tilted his head up slightly and tugged on your feather antennae, as if trying to pluck a clue from it.

“You are… a, uhhh—” he frowned and shook his head, “I don’t know, a scary moth?”

“Mothman.”

“Mothman?”

“Right, mothman.”

“Never heard of him,” he chuckled as he filled his cup. Taking a sip, he leaned back against the counter, even closer. His gaze felt hot on your cheeks. He said, “You look nice, though.”

“Thanks,” your eyes dropped to his cup and you read his name aloud, “Frankie.”

“You’re welcome.”

You licked your lips, then told him, “That’s one of my favorite movies. The Thing, I mean.”

“It’s a classic.”

“Ok, sorry—I need to talk about this costume more. You have a fucking flamethrower and everything. And the hat—” You giggled and gave the visor of the floppy hat a playful smack, “It is ridiculous.”

Drifting a little closer, he chuckled and held up the business end of the flamethrower, “You know how many people have asked me if this is real tonight?”

“How many?”

“None. And that’s a goddamn travesty.”

“Uh-huh,” you smirked, meeting his eyes through the sunglasses, “Well, is it real?”

He smiled and shrugged, “Maybe.”

“Maybe yes or maybe no?”

“Maybe yes.”

“Shut the fuck up, are you serious?”

He nodded.

“Can we light shit on fire? Oh my god, please? My cousin has a fire pit—”

“Whoa, slow down, Sparky. The tank is empty.”

You deflated, shaking your head as you murmured into your cup, “What a tease.”

Frankie laughed, “A tease, really?”

“You can’t tell a gal you’re sporting a real flamethrower then not set shit on fire with it.”

Shaking his head, he said, “Tell you what, give me your phone number, we can set up a time for me to show you how to use it.”

Your heart skipped a beat. Heat rose to your cheeks and you smiled, “Really?”

He dug into his pocket and pulled out his cell phone, then handed it to you.

As you saved your contact information to his phone, you said, “I know this might just be a cute thing you’re saying to get my phone number, but I fully expect you to follow through.”

“You have my word.”

When you gave back his phone, his hand brushed up against yours, and something sparked inside you. He tucked the phone into his pocket. You felt him staring at you, and glanced down at his mouth as his tongue peaked out to wet his lips. For a moment, the two of you stood there quietly, letting static build between your bodies, pulling you closer.

The door to the basement swung open, filling the room with Thriller by Michael Jackson. A worse-for-wear Hollywood Hulk Hogan stumbled up the stairs into the kitchen and closed the door behind him.

He squinted between you and your new friend, swaying a little, then recognition kicked in and Hogan yelled, “FISH!”

“Jesus Christ, Benny,” he muttered in response, setting down his cup to start towards him, “You can barely stand.”

“I’m fffffine,” Benny swatted at his friend.

“Let’s get you home.”

He let out a dramatic groan, but accepted Frankie‘s arm slung around his back.

Frankie looked at you, eyebrows knit together, apologies written all over his face, and asked, “Can I call you tomorrow?”

“Absolutely.”

You both lingered there for a moment, despite the dead weight hanging off one side of him, then he said, “It was nice meeting you.”

His voice was low and sultry. It heated you from the inside.

“You too,” you grinned wide and nodded, “I’ll talk to you tomorrow.”

He returned the smile, then glanced over at his friend, “Alright, drunk ass, let’s go.”

[firequeenofficial]

Moth Pearl!

Okay, I just made a swan Grian (inspired by @smoozie) (sorry for the tag) to go with Pangolin Etho, and now I wanna make more. Send me (in rb's or in an ask) an mcyt-er - Hermitcraft, Life Series, Empires, (I'm gonna be brave here) DSMP, and beyond, doesn't have to be mainstream - and an animal, and I'll provide a crap editing of a generic image of the animal with the mcyt-er's skin!

Also, you can request certain skins of the mcyt-er, eg DO2 Tango or ice queen (or whatever he called himself at the start of New Life) Martyn. Just, whoever you desire, on whatever animal you desire. I'll even do the same mcyt-er as different animals. Go crazy.

Here's Pangolin Etho and Swan Grian, for your enjoyment!

[genevawrenn]

For the love of god drop the merch so we can pay the QSMP server admins because they've all lost the plot.

Tubbo has industrialised all of Fobo, killed multiple horses and ended Foosh's addiction. Tubbo has also started his factories.

Fit is in time out in corpse cave.

Pac has been throwing himself into dungeon after dungeon and flirted with multiple people.

Philza is running multiple gambles in his chat on the likelihood of catching a catfish, a quest they all got and have been going insane trying to accomplish. This is post the deep deep dark caves quest with the horrifying moths where we got our first and only Philza horror stream.

And Town of Fobo deciding to start a war with Philza which horrifically failed when he killed their prank nuclear creeper in under ten seconds and last I heard Foosh's eyes had turned to Tazercraft.

We've all lost it /lh

[tigerfang318]

I fit very much into the common therian characteristic of loving meat. It’s been this way my whole life. While I’m no longer a picky eater, I used to be EXTREMELY picky as a child. However, despite my aversion to most food, I was obsessed with fried chicken. Heck, my mom didn’t allow me to have Kentucky Fried Chicken for years because she thought it made me sick, when in reality, I just ate so much fried chicken to the point where it actually did make me sick.

I sometimes joke that I would be a carnivore if my body allowed me to be. But all of my theriotypes are carnivores! It just makes sense! And it goes even deeper than just having a love of meat. If I don’t eat meat for a day, something feels a little off or a little unsatisfied. I love staring at the meat aisle of the grocery store like a ravenous beast. I used to and still envy the big cats from Big Cat Rescue for being given so much raw meat and getting to eat it all. I even think the smell of meat lingering on a person is attractive. I had an ex-boyfriend who cooked often, and when he made any sort of meat, I clung to him like a moth to a flame.

Anywho, favorite meat time! I’ve always loved chicken— specifically fried chicken— but I LOVE the smell and taste of brisket. And I really like pulled pork. I also really enjoy bacon. And those fancy steaks you get from nice restaurants. And I’m a sucker for hot shrimp. And any sort of sushi! I looove sushi. Eating the raw salmon and tuna is fun. I also like gyro meat. And I LOVE those little fried crab claws. I can make a meal out of those things. Calamari is also fun to eat. And where I’m from, catfish and crawfish and sausage in jambalaya and gumbo is popular and sooo good!

[puzzled-pegasus]

Wof Tribe Headcanons

IceWings have lots of variety in the shapes of their horns. They can be straight, curved, looped like a ram's, or branched like antlers.

IceWings can have gray or green eyes as well as blue.

Somewhat of a given but IceWings have blue gums. I noticed this while drawing one with bared teeth lol

SeaWings have a coating of slime on their scales to help them glide through the water, like a fish. Because of this, they always feel wet to the touch.

More of a redesign than a headcanon but I feel like SandWings should be able to have a gene for rattle tails instead of barbed. Additionally, they should have mouth venom like a NightWing.

SkyWings are particularly closely related to RainWings and can change color very slightly between shades of red, orange, or pink.

Solid color dragons are boring af so guess what! They can have markings! Stripes, tails of different shades, spots, speckles, freckles, face stars, muzzles, blazes, tail tips.

Many MudWings have green mixed in with their scales to blend in to more mossy or algae filled swamp land. They can also have green or yellow eyes as well as brown.

SkyWings have a holiday like Halloween, where they carve gourd lanterns and make sweets and whatnot and the high status ones paint their faces and wear costumes because it's the night where the spirits can come down from the sky and cause Mayhem and I'm not sure what other traditions it would entail but the war and Queen Scarlet and all that kinda made it not fun for a while so they stopped celebrating as much but Ruby is bringing back the Fun and doing pair costumes with Cliff

SandWings grow marijuana

NightWings can have silver freckles

The only tribes that have SLIT PUPILS should be SeaWings and NightWings because SeaWings have good night vision and NightWings also should, as they are in fact up at night.

This fact in mind, NightWings should 100 percent have LIGHT eye colors because LIGHT eye colors reflect more light so one can SEE BETTER AT NIGHT. These colors should include yellow, orange, green, and blue, maybe purple because they're all mystical. Not black eyes like are described on Darkstalker.

SandWings are often superstitious and things like magicicans, psychics, witchcraft, onstage shows are common jobs. It was probably originally an idea to trick people into paying them for lying, but it caught on and now many people believe it. Storytelling is also a common job.

NightWing wings have sort of feathery edges like an owl, allowing for near silent flight at night.

Falconry is common in SkyWings because birds of prey are the only pet they can have follow them and be even close to keeping up with them in the sky.

I've probably said this before but uh?? Where's our tribe flags??? They need flags and symbols and stuff??

RainWings have flat molars because they eat more fruit than any other tribe and have for thousands of years

SilkWings can have fuzz like moths! They can have patches of it, or a line down their back, or a tail tuft, or be completely covered!

SeaWings can have barbels like catfish. This makes them especially useful at hunting for shellfish. SeaWings and SandWings also have heat sensors.

SandWings can taste the air like a snake. Their tongues flick out whenever they are intrigued. They have a bit of a lisp because their tongues are unusually shaped.

[stoptakingthegoodname5]

/ As for my liking for Animal Crossing, I’m putting my favs drivers and who I think what Animal Crossing bug/fish they remind me of

(⚠️ THIS IS NO HATE THIS IS ALL FOR SHITS AND GIGGLES ⚠️)

First off we have Lance Stroll, honestly this dude reminds me of a Robust Cicada 😭

/ I don’t know why man, this dude just looks derpy enough to be a cicada. And well cicadas do annoy people and sadly Lance annoys many 😭

Next is Max Verstappen, I’m sorry but he’s a Catfish no questions asked

/ The eyes the dead fish expression when he’s shocked, and the lips. Catfish on the ice box in a fish market coded.

Third Oscar Piastri, he’s just a Moth

/ He’s not giving much on the table and that’s ok! Just the plain chill vibes he has truly Kimi Räikkönen’s son.

Finally Logan Sargeant, he’s a Cherry Salmon

/ Like Max, dead expressing but with less lips. And maybe I’m reaching here but the soft tan highlights on the fish remind me of his hair. But yeah he is totally hanging with Max in that ice box at the fish market

/ That’s it, Ik it’s a shitpost and what not but I had fun doing it 😭 (I wanna hear y’all’s opinions 🤷🏻‍♂️ and if you guys want this as a series I’ll be glad to do more)

(IM A FAN OF ALL OF THEM ON THIS LIST I SWEARRR)