Pond Filtration, Pond Maintenance and Aquarium Maintenance, UK

Here is a few interesting fishy facts for you.

• Fish have been on the planet for over  450 million years.

• There are over 25,000 identified species of fish on the planet with more being found all the time.

• There are more species of fish than all the species of amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals combined.

• 0.01% of the earth's water is fresh water and yet 40% of all fish species inhabit fresh water.

• Some species of fish can breath air, usually to allow them to survice bad conditions or move from pond to pond.

• Some fish can make noise some by grating their teeth and some make noises from their air filled swim bladder.

• To navigate in cloudy or murky water fish have  their lateral line which acts something like a radar.

• The great whale shark is the largest fish in the world it can reach fifty feet in length.

• Fish do feel pain and suffer stress just like other animals.                                                                                                                                         
• An ichthyologist is a person that studies fish .
• The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age.
•  fish grow throughout their lives, but they grow slower as they grow older.

• The stonefish, which lives off the coast of Australia, is the most poisonous fish in the world.

• The lung fish can live out of water for as long as four years!

• A newly hatched fish is called a "fry."