I think baby catfish should be called kittenfish

Catfish

Dogfish

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even in fish form, I'm still a dog person lmao

here's something stupid: the catcatfish

some quick facts:

they're nocturnal and tend to roam around while awake.

they have keen senses of smell and hearing, but terrible eyesight. despite this, they also have a tapetum lucidum, making their pupils "glow" in the dark.

their fur is short, dense, and oily to waterproof them.

they prefer a diet of mostly meat and are attracted to strong-smelling food like fish, cheese, and anything fermented.

the elongated dewclaw on each front paw is sharp, flexible, and nonretractable. it injects a venom that causes respiratory failure and cardiac arrest in prey and, in extreme doses, humans. veterenarians typically remove the dewclaw venom glands during the neuter/spay procedure.

they grow to an average of 1m and 23kg (3ft and 50lb) but can reach up to double that length and triple the weight!

the catfish

possibly the worst thing i've drawn

Join me in the catfish pile

Some catfish character designs that I made a few weeks ago 🐠🐟🐡

Oh thank god they’re no longer obscene!

Neoriceisgood's River and Lake fish.

My collection of river and lake friends! Have I done your fav?

Would you be so kind as to draw a fish? Any fish you desire. But it needs legs.

At first I was gonna be really pedantic and do the whole "uh ahkshually every tetrapod I've drawn is technically a fish with legs"

But then I thought about how cool a Madtom with boots would be

Freshwater Fish of North America 🎣✨

this is Novembers monthly postcard along with a sockeye salmon sticker!

Daily fish fact #734

Squarehead catfish!

They're ambush predators, hiding themselves in the soft substrate of their riverine and pond habitats and using their moveable barbels as bait. They're very dedicated to their disguise, not moving even when touched lightly!

Catfish stuffed with Cream Cheese, Mozzarella, Spinach & Shrimp. (via Instagram)

god i love the blue catfish so much. kind of a terrifying superpredator honestly. they like living in muddy water so their eyesight is dogshit, but they've got these huge barbels around their face to feel around, and their whole body is covered in almost two hundred thousand tastebuds to figure out exactly where their prey is, and they've got a special adipose fin to be extra tuned-in to water currents/pressure, and they have super keen senses of hearing at really low AND high frequencies, and they ALSO have a deeply forked tail to decrease drag so they can just cruise around and gulp down literally whatever they want, including other catfish, even in like zero-visibility water where every other animal is basically blind. and they get so fucking stupid huge with this technique that nothing can grab them because they're as big as a person. and if an eagle or something does grab one before it's gotten big enough to be eagle-proof, the catfish has fucking POISON KNIVES on its fins to not only stab things but also envenomate them in the process

you may not like it, but THIS is what peak performance looks like

panda corydoras

catfish designin’