Fathead fish is also known as bighead carp, bighead carp, and commonly known as baghead fish.

The fathead fish has a dark black body, fine and dense scales, a large head, and eyes near the lower part of the head, and lives in freshwater, making it one of the most important food fish species in China. Fathead fish is bighead carp, there are many common names, bear fish, bighead carp, black chub, yellow chub, pine fish, big head fish, of which the bighead carp this common name is most widely circulated, and the bighead carp and bighead carp, and belong to the same four big fish.

The fathead minnow grows very fast, and at the age of 3, its weight can reach 8 to 10 pounds, and in large waters in the wild, its weight can reach 60 to 80 pounds. The fathead minnow prefers high temperatures, so the hotter the weather is, the more active the fathead minnow is, and the water temperature reaches about 25 degrees Celsius, which is the most suitable temperature for the fathead minnow's environment.

Reason for naming the fathead minnow

The fathead minnow is relatively docile in nature and slow in action, living in the middle and upper layers of the waters, with migratory habits, and mainly focusing on aquatic insects in the water, such as rotifers, branchiostomatids, copepods, and other aquatic insects in the water, and at the same time the phytoplankton in the water, such as diatoms, cyanobacteria, etc., is also one of the staple foods, in the fall and winter. In order to replenish fat to cope with the winter, it will also feed on small fish and shrimp in the water.

1, the fathead minnow's fathead minnow's head is wide, its mouth is also wider, and it's slightly upturned, and its eye position is lower, so it's called a fathead minnow.

2, the fathead fish back and the upper part of the body side of the black, there are a lot of irregular black spots, looks as long as the flower spots, so it is called chub.