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Wild Gibel carps have a small head with a level mouth, slightly up turned jaws with no barbles, Dark grey-brown long based dorsal fin with 16-21 rays first of which is toothed, also a toothed spine on the anal fin and a cream or dull white belly. Goldfish relesed into the wild often revert to a gilel-like paler colour.

Fry and young gilel carp feed mainly on zooplankton and algae, when they get older they feed on midge larvae, water hog-lice and pond snails.

After one year gilel carp are about 5cm, there growth rates are usually slow few wild gibel carp grow more than 28cm long.