Goliath Tiger Fish, A Goliath Tiger is a type of fish that you can find swimming in the Congo stream system in the Smoke Run area of PA by Candy Rock Mountain. The fish is has a rusty color red body and can grow up to 24 inches long.
It’s like a rainbow trout, but a lot bigger and instead of a red/bluish stripe the entire fish is a rusty colored red. Local myths say that the strain of trout is a mutation called by all the sulfer from the coal mines. Old timers claim that the small streams that the unique species of fish live in once were filled with normal rainbow and brook trout.
The fish has built up a resistance to the sulfer and is the only fish that can live in water that has been contaminated by sulfer. Scientists are trying to study the fish to learn more about it. It’s not known how many are thought to exist. The two streams that the fish inhabits are only a grand total of 1.4 miles combined in length.
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