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Andrea Aponte

My name is Andrea and this is my fish, Lily.
She is a Gunnel Fish. I’m going to give you some advices on how to catch her but it won’t be that easy.

Body Type
 Her body is slender and compressed.
 She has a ribbon body shape, kind of like an eel.
 She is camouflaged so it’s hard to find her.
 Her mouth is on top, so she feeds anything above her.
 Her tail is squared, so can swim away very quickly for short distances so you need to catch her fast and don’t let go. Habitat

 Lily lives in the Rocky Seashore and is very well-adapted in her area.
 Rocky Seashore is contained with algae and rocks.
 With her body color, she can easily camouflage between them. Coloration

Lily is very hard to see since she can blend in with her area.
She is a brown-greenish color for her to blend in with the algae and rocks.

Mouth shape - Diet

 Her mouth is on the top and has teeth.
 Lily eats prey from the surface and anything above her.
 They prey on small crustaceans and mollusks.

Predators

Some predators she has are basically the larger fishes and sea gulls.
They are very slippery so it’ll be hard for the birds to catch them.

Adaptions

Since she can camouflaged to her surrounding, it’s easy for her to survive from the predators.
Best foods that is suitable for her mouth shape is small food like crustaceans and mollusks.
Her body is a ribbon shape so she can easily evade the predators just by going through rocks to hide.

What existing fish is your created fish similar too? How?

My created fish is similar to the eel. Eel has a ribbon shaped body with it’s mouth on top.