still in suburban reservoirs mostly former CIS fishermen catch a small but a very strange animals.It - fish Rata, has a very peculiar appearance and habits.
You probably know how deep swallows the bait ruff?We dare to assure you that the reporting glutton makes it even better.Beginners very process of his release instills fear and awe: small fish (14 to 25 cm high) is characterized such a huge and toothy maw that is similar to the character of a horror movie!
Experienced fishermen, shaking hands with the mucus stuck, and does remain discouraged by the fact capture this "shit".In short, the fish Ratan - that still prey!
little bit of pure science: in Latin, this fish is called Perccottus glenni, belongs to the order Perciformes and is included in the suborder bychkovidnyh that in a separate family - goloveshkovyh.Yes, despite all kinship with perch, fish Ratan were separated.And how could it be otherwise: Native most common predators of our water more like a marine gobies ...
rotan looking at closely, you will easily understand why he called them "firebrand".The color is not accidental - the fish live in dark, muddy waters, in which even the hardiest carp do not get along.
However, everything depends on the time and the place of capture.If the pond is large enough and clean, the fish are often light Ratan.Moreover, this kind of them not only larger, but also almost completely converted to a predatory way of life, at all times eliminating all other forms of their relatives.
catch embers male during the mating period, you will see that the entire surface of his body is covered with bright orange spots.The similarity with the smoldering firebrands become altogether undeniable!
rotan came from the Far East, serving as yet another example of successful acclimatization encyclopedic and human stupidity.Having become autocratic master of some ponds and lakes, it is often at the root plagued many valuable species of fish.
In his own home, he found only in small and quite warm waters: in the same Amur his full competition, and the inhabitants of the large water even the biggest rattan be eaten without a trace.
In the European part of the country, this kind of view emerged in the early twentieth century.It began its triumphant march with ponds of St. Petersburg, where in 1912, this pattern was released by aquarists.Even before the Revolution rotan quickly obzhil almost all bodies of water near the Gulf of Finland.
Despite this, in the years to reach the capital of the fish and could not.But already in 1948, a voracious rotan was brought to Moscow by the same hobbyists who sell in bulk to the "bird".Warm Moscow had his taste, but because by the mid-50s it was to be found in any local swamp, and even in a roadside ditch.
Fortunately, the rivers of this kind develops bad: blame the lower temperature of the water, and there is a lot of competition.Currently, it is common in almost all European territory even in the Czech Republic fishermen recently began cursing, shaking him off the hook.In the south voracious rotan I have even reached Uzbekistan.It is expected that already in 2050 he doplyvet and to the lower reaches of the Volga.
Photos submitted to your attention, will help to make at least some idea of what it looks like fish rattan.But it is remarkable what we told you!
