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The Golden Trout : A Special Color Pattern

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The Golden Trout has a special color pattern of both green and orange. The orange color runs across the fish body from the gills to its caudal fin. The green stripes run down from the top of the fish and cross the orange line, which creates multiple perpendicular green and oranges stripes on the fish body. On its fins, there are black dots that appears all throughout the area of the fins (both dorsal and caudal); which creates the combination of all three color on the Golden Trout. These color combinations are what make the fish unique and distinct compare to other species. The California Golden Trout size vary based on the location they live in. Golden Trout in streams is usually smaller than the ones in lakes, which is about 35-43 cm …show more content…

As mentioned above, the California Golden Trout prefers to live in the cooler parts stream or lakes. Their ideal habitat water temperature would be from 3 to 20 degree Celsius, which is a perfect range of temperature for them to breath or metabolized food, etc. Since they prefer to stay in colder water, the Golden Trout doesn’t have any additional adaptation to keep its body warm. However, if the body of water gets warmer above 20 degrees, they would migrate to find a different environment that they can survive better in; Colder water provides more oxygen for the fish, while a warmer temperature would be hard for them to survive and reproduce due the lesser amount of oxygen available (Carl – Earth Island Institute). The process of osmoregulation is one important feature that all fish possess within their anatomy to main its salt and water levels balance with the environment that it is living in. The California Golden Trout is no exception. Since it is a freshwater fish, the Golden Trout’s body is more likely to have a higher level of salts compare to the environment that it is living in. Therefore, the chance of them losing salt and absorbing more water is inevitable. In order for them to maintain the balance of both water and salt levels, they would need an efficient kidney to push out the water as quick as possible as its body is more likely to absorb water from the environment. Furthermore, as their salt level drop, the Golden

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