When I was a child, I often saw a variety of fish in the stream, and I could catch a lot of them with a random net.
However, with overfishing and changes in the environment, it is relatively rare to see fish.
Nature is magical, and there are many small fish that grow in the natural environment hidden in the stream, and they are still beautiful and have certain ornamental value. There are even small naturally grown fish that are no different in appearance than ornamental fish.

1. Red crucian carp
Red crucian carp is the most common brightly colored fish, also known as golden crucian carp or grass goldfish, similar in appearance to the Japanese koi, it is a species of red and yellow crucian carp that mutates when it is raised in captivity, and is the oldest species of goldfish.
2. Chinese Fighting Fish
The scientific name of the Chinese fighting fish is the Gaiban Bucket Fish, also known as the forktail bucket fish and the paradise fish, which is active in shallow puddles or on the shore of dense aquatic grasses, with beautiful appearance and particularly beautiful colors.
3. Wrench
The trout is a common name for the fish belonging to the subfamily Cyprinidae (Troutidae) of the Cyprinidae family, also known as square skin, mirror fish, colored rounds, and gourd fish, which are a group of small freshwater fish, and the body color of the trout is silvery white and colorful.
4. Warburg loach
The Walpin loach is a small fish that mainly inhabits mountain and stream rapids, and its appearance varies due to regional differences.
5. Wheat ear fish
Wheat ear fish, is a subfamily of the cyprinid family, a fish of the genus Wheat Ear Fish, is an important economic fish in China, widely distributed in all parts of China except the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
6. Ctenophora goby
Ctenophorus goby has a slender, slightly cylindrical body, a slightly flattened head, inhabits the bottom of mountain streams, and is extremely viable, almost surviving with water. It is widely distributed, almost all over the country except for the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
7. Hua Yu
Except for parts of the Northwest Plateau, it is almost all over the major river systems in China, and is distributed in rivers and lakes in the plain area, and is a common fish in rivers and lakes.
8. It is like a catfish
It resembles a grayish-black dorsal and lateral back and a gray-white abdomen, inhabiting the bottom of rivers and looking for food in the mud and sand. It is distributed in the Yangtze River, Pearl River, Minjiang River, Qiantang River, Lingjiang River, Yellow River, Huaihe River and other areas.
9. Tattooed chest
The striped chest is wide and flat and often attached to the stone crevices at the bottom of the river, also known as stone flat fish, stone stickers, tiger fish, thorny head, etc., widely distributed in the water system south of the Yangtze River.
10. Climbing perch
Climbing perch is a small Asian freshwater fish, native to southern China, Malaysia, India and other countries, known for its tenacious vitality and ability to crawl on land.
In addition to the above 10 kinds of beautiful small fish that grow naturally, have you ever seen or known about other beautiful fish in China?
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