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Coarse fish we stock
We stock a whole plethora of various ornamental and coarse fishes: Koi carp, ghost carp, grass carp, Blue orfe, Golden orfe, tench, rudd, golden Rudd,golden tench,roach, bream, perch, stillwater barbel and stillwater chub. With this ofcourse hybridisation will occur in the ponds as it progressivly matures and naturalises.
The tench or doctor fish (Tinca tinca)
A freshwater fish of the cyprinid family found throughout Eurasia from Western Europe including the British Isles east into Asia as far as the Ob and Yenisei Rivers. It is also found in Lake Baikal. It normally inhabits slow-moving freshwater habitats, particularly lakes and lowland rivers. In Germany, the tench is called Schlei. Trout are predators and the natural enemies of the tench.
Golden Tench
The golden variety are more colourful and the most aestetically pleasing of the tench variety. It is bred for ornamental purposes, but has becone increasingly popular in modern coarse fisheries. They average in size from 1lb to roughly 6-7lb in weight being a real specimen
Koi Carp (Cyprinus carpio)
Are another example of an ornamental fish that anglers have taken favour to for there hard fighting qualties and there artistic and beautifully decorated markings and vivid colours and flayling fins. The nishikigoi, are a group of fish that are ornamental varieties of domesticated common carp that are kept for decorative purposes in outdoor koi ponds or water gardens.
Blue Orfe (Leuciscus idus)
Native to many parts of Europe and Asia, introduced to several other countries. This Orfe is a popular decorative species bred for ornamental ponds. However, they have become popular amongst coarse anglers.
Golden Orfe
The Orfe or ide is native to rivers and lakes of northern european countrys and Asia. It had bright irridescent silver scales that turn darker on the back of the fish as it ages. The fins are tinged blood red especially the ventral and pelvic fins. The pectoral and cordal fins can be orange to red in colour. The Orfe feeds on small water born inverterbrates such as snails and insect larvae. In mid water they can feed on fry and on the surface of the water for terrestrial insects as well as hatching or hatched water born inverterbrates.
Grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella)
The Grass Carp is a herbivorous, freshwater fish species of the family Cyprinidae, and the only species of the genus Ctenopharyngodon. It is a large cyprind native to eastern Asia, with a native range from northern Vietnam to the Amur River on the Siberia-China border.[1] It is cultivated in China for food, but was introduced in Europe and the United States for aquatic weed control. It is a fish of large, turbid rivers and associated floodplain lakes, with a wide degree of temperature tolerance. Grass carp will enter reproductive condition and spawn at temperatures of 20 to 30°C. The Grass Carp is a fishery's friend as it can be introduced to combat excessive weed growth especially in the warm summer months where weed growth is prolific.
Rudd Scardinius erythropthalmus
The Rudd is a bentho-pelagic freshwater fish, widely spread in Europe and middle Asia, around the basins of the North, Baltic, Black, Caspian and Aral seas.
Golden Rudd Leuciscus idus
Golden Rudd are a great alternative to orfe in smaller ponds. Rudd are a native fish, so very acclimatised to the ‘great’ british weather, whatever it brings us. They are a smaller growing surface fish with less demands on oxygen. Golden Rudd generally only achieve a size of 5-6”(12-15cm), however, they can get larger than this in large well filtered pools. Rudd, as with orfe, are a lot happier in small shoals. This not only allows the fish to feel more secure, but also improves the health and vitality of them.
Rudd will feed happily on a varied diet, consisting of pellets, stick, and flaked dried preparations. This fish will also be more than happy grazing on small larvae in the pond.
Roach (Rutilus rutilus)
Also known as the common roach, it is a fresh and brackish water fish of the Cyprinidae family, native to most of Europe and western Asia. The name "roach" is not unique, but fishes called roach can be any species of the genera Rutilus and Hesperoleucus, depending on locality.
Bronze Bream (Abramis brama)
The common bream, freshwater bream, bream, bronze bream.Abramis brama, is a European species of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is now considered to be the only species in the genus Abramis.
The common bream lives in schools near the bottom. At night common bream can feed close to the shore and in clear waters with sandy bottoms feeding pits can be seen during daytime. The fish's protractile mouth helps it dig for chironomid larvae, Tubifex worms, bivalves, and gastropods. The bream eats water plants and plankton, as well.
In very turbid waters, common bream can occur in large numbers, which may result in a shortage of bottom-living prey such as chironomids. The bream are then forced to live by filter feeding with their gill rakers, Daphnia water fleas being the main prey. As the fish grows, the gill rakers become too far apart to catch small prey and the bream will not then grow bigger than 40 cm (16 in).
Stillwater Chub (Squalius cephalus)
The Eurasian daces, Leuciscus, are close relatives. The present genus was formerly entirely included there, and their delimitation with respect to each other is somewhat uncertain. A number of species have in recent times been moved from one genus to the other. Generally, Leuciscus in the modern sense is widespread across Eurasia, whereas Squalius is almost limited to Europe proper.
Hybridization is not rare in the Cyprinidae, including this genus. S. alburnoides is known to be of ancient hybrid origin, with the paternal lineage deriving from a prehistoric species related to Anaecypris; the latter mated with ancestral S. pyrenaicus. Present-day S. alburnoides mates with sympatric congeners of other species
Barbel( Barbus Barbus)
The Barbel are a group of small carp-like freshwater fish, almost all of the genus Barbus. They are usually found in gravel and rocky-bottomed slow-flowing waters with high dissolved oxygen content. A typical adult barbel will range from 25 to 100 cm in length and weigh anywhere between 200 g and 10 kg, although weights of 200 g are more common. Babies weigh 100-150 g.
Barbel roe is poisonous and causes vomiting and diarrhoea in some people.
The name barbel derived from the Latin barba, meaning beard,[1] a reference to the two pairs of barbs — a longer pair pointing forwards and slightly down positioned — on the side of the mouth.