What is a mirror carp?
Mirror carp or cyprinus carpio is a large, freshwater fish that is closely related to conventional carp, and is very similar to the appearance with several other types of carp. These fish can grow over a length of 3.5 feet (1 meter) and it was known to live up to 60 years, although 20 years tend to be an average life. It usually weighs about £ 20 (9 kilograms), the large size of these fish means that they are unsuitable for small ponds or waterways because they need a large amount of space and a lot of food. It has a long history assuming that it was first kept around 1300, as one of the first documented British and European attempts to deliberate selective fish breeding. The mirror carp is popular with experienced fishermen, is very common throughout Europe and the British Isles.
mirror carp lives in large, cold on mild bodies with fresh water that is among the most abundant large, freshwater pipelineFish throughout the UK and a lot from Eurasia. Mirror carp is closely related to ordinary carp, it is very similar to the appearance of this fish, as well as leather carp, because both are variations or subscribing ordinary carp. It is believed to have been selectively bred from the conventional monk carp and introduced as a valuable source of food for some time in the 13th century, resulting in large fleshy fish with very few scale, making it excellent and easy to prepare food.
Mirror Carp is distinguishable from other types of carp due to their distinctive standards that are unique for each individual fish. They have very few scale and those present are usually very large and reflective, so the name of the mirror carp. Many of the larger specimens were named on the basis of their color and scale. Leather carp is sometimes wrong behind mirror carp inexperienced fishing is that these fish generally have no scales, and if several scales are present, they areSmall, insignificant and do not reflect. Ordinary carp is easily different from the varieties of leather and mirrors because they are fully scalated, which are small and uniform all over the body.