Introduction: Gan fish may be many people are not too clear what kind of fish, then Gan fish in the end what kind of fish? Gan fish is delicious? Gan fish meat how? Gan fish spiny? Here to see!

Gan fish is a large carnivorous fish, is also a freshwater economic fish. Swimming ability is very strong, often attack and chase other fish, more than people are familiar with the blackfish, Mandarin fish and other predatory fish more ferocious.

Gan fish meat is relatively smooth, no grass carp the kind of coarse texture.

Gan (gǎn) (Elopichthys bambusa), belongs to the order of carp, carp family, Yarrow fish subfamily, Gan genus. Commonly known as yellow fish, yellow diamond, yellow cheek fish, pole fish, water tiger, big mouth Gan, widower. English name Yellowcheek carp. Its body slender, subcylindrical, head pointed long. Kiss sharp, beak-like. Mouth large, end position, lower jaw front center has a hard protrusion and maxillary depression embedded. Whiskers absent, eyes small, slightly prominent. Hypopharyngeal teeth in 3 rows, teeth ending in hooks. Scales fine. Dorsal fin small, its beginning located after the ventral fin; caudal fin y forked. Body dorsum gray-brown, abdomen silver-white, dorsal and caudal fins dark gray, cheeks and other fins yellowish. Prefers fish smaller than it. (General feeding fish ponds have a few Gan fish the whole fish pond other fish basically extinct, for general fish farmers natural enemy) some areas to it and the green fish confusion, the dialect called Gan silk mixed (fish).

Mainly live in the rivers and lakes in the upper and middle layers, swim quickly, action, is a typical fierce fish mainly to fish for food, is also a large freshwater economic fish.

The fish is ferocious, is a carnivorous fish, very voracious, not divided into meat, vegetarian, see on food, food on the grab, sometimes even swallow than it is bigger than the mouth of the fish, specializing in a variety of fish for food (including eating blackfish), is the enemy of freshwater fish.

Gan fish is a freshwater fish wide temperature varieties, survival of a wide range of water temperature, suitable for the growth of water temperature of 16 -30 degrees Celsius, suitable for most of the regions of China culture.