A school of gold fish was rapidly circling one of the man-made ponds with an abundance of garter snakes.
Some very large fish were clustered under the shade of a tree in a small part of the canal.
The Cypriniformes are an order of ray-finned fish, including the carps, minnows, loaches and relatives. This order contains 5-6 families, over 320 genera, and more than 3,250 species, with new species being described every few months or so, and new genera being recognized regularly. They are most diverse in southeastern Asia, but are entirely absent from Australia and South America.
