Western Carp Gudgeon

In Aquaria

Western carp gudgeon make superb aquarium fish: they are lively, interactive, attractively coloured and hardy. They eagerly take live or frozen brine shrimp, very small invertebrates, and commercial micro-pellet fish feeds. Curiously, they are unavailable in aquarium stores and remain the province of keen naturalists who capture their own (readily done with a sweep net around weedbeds in summer).