#common carp

You get a Common Carp

Common or European Carp // Cyprinus carpio

They can live between 17-20 years, but they have been recorded to live up to 50 years in captivity! They can also grow quite large, reaching up to 1 m (3.3 ft) in length and 60 kg (137 lbs) in weight.

Most carp eat crustaceans, molluscs, seeds, and more! They will open their mouth, creating a vacuum to pull in their food (and subsequently water and mud). Their gill rakes do a good job at filtering out any unwanted materials. And to deal with those hard shells, carps have a set of pharyngeal teeth in their throats to crush them!

Carp are incredibly invasive in North and South America and Australia. It's considered by the Global Invasive Species Database to be one of the most world's worst invasive species. They originate from Asia, and were later introduced to Europe as an ornamental species. They were spread even further through aquaculture, as a source of food, and even to replicate the European environment. Why are they a popular ornamental species? Because the fish known as Koi is just a colorful variant of the common carp!

As night-fall does not come at once, neither does oppression… It is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become victims of the darkness.

I not only think that we will tamper with Mother Nature, I think Mother wants us to.

by Justice William O. Douglass and William Gaylin, respectively.

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Closest match: Cyprinus carpio genome assembly common carp genome, scaffold 000002235 Common name: Common carp

(they’re not all fish tho)

Realistically? Probably some species of carp, like maybe a common carp, with their little barbels that help them taste around in low-visibility conditions. While this would not be my choice fish, I wouldn't have any problems with this really, besides being very prominent on the food chain-- I might appear on some dude's dating profile.

If I could choose though? I'd choose to be a deep sea telescope fish; I think it's neat, and I would enjoy being very far from the sun.

Below are some images of the deep sea telescope fish, which may be considered spooky-looking with their big ol' mouths and eyes (although I personally think the eyes are very cute):