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Fish ASCII Art — Copy & Paste Text Fish

A tank full of fish ASCII art to copy and paste, from the classic ><(((º> swimmer to angelfish, schools and bubbling scenes. These one-line and multi-line text fish drop neatly into chats, bios and code comments. All free to use.

Swimmer
><(((º>
Facing left
<º)))><
Little fish
><>
Little fish left
<><
Chubby fish
><((('>
Sparkle fish
·°·><((((º>
Reverse fish
~<°)))><
School of fish
><> ><> ><>
Fish tank
 ><>    <><
   <><    ><>
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~
Little fishby kOs
       .   )\
       \`.-' `-oo
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       /.' )/             kOs
       '
Curvy fishby fsc
          __
         /  ;
     _.--"""-..   _.
    /F         `-'  [
   ]  ,    ,    ,    ;
    '--L__J_.-"" ',_;
        '-._J
               fsc
Pufferfishby jb
                    _,;_;/-",_
                 ,")  (  ((O) "  .`,
               ,` (    )  ;  -.,/;`}
             ,"  o    (  ( (  . -_-.
            `.  ;      ;  ) ) \`; \;
              `., )   (  ( _-`   \,'
                 "`'-,,`.jb
Angelfishby AoS
           .'|_.-
         .'  '  /_
      .-"    -.   '>
   .- -. -.    '. /    /|_
  .-.--.-.       ' >  /  /
 (o( o( o )       \_."  <
  '-'-''-'            ) <
(       _.-'-.   ._\.  _\
 '----"/--.__.-) _-  \|
AoS    "V""    "V"
Two fishby cgmm
            .----.                         ,----,
   ____    __\\\\\\__                  ___//////__    ____
   \___'--"          .-.            .-.           "--'___/
   /___<             '0'            '0'              >___\
  /____,--.       y     B          8     q        ,--.____\
          "".____  ___-"            "-___  ____,""
          //    / /                      \ \   \\     cgmm
                ]/   cgmm                 \[
Betta fishby ap
                 |
                 |
                ,|.
               ,\|/.
             ,' .V. `.
            / .     . \
           /_`       '_\
          ,' .:     ;, `.
          |@)|  . .  |(@|
     ,-._ `._';  .  :`_,' _,-.
    '--  `-\ /,-===-.\ /-'  --`
   (----  _|  ||___||  |_  ----)
    `._,-'  \  `-.-'  /  `-._,'
             `-.___,-' ap

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FAQ

What does ><> mean?
It is the smallest ASCII fish: the arrow > is the tail and the mouth, swimming to the right. Flip it to <>< to swim left.
Do these fish work in code comments?
Yes. The one-line fish are popular in code and commit messages because they stay aligned in any monospace editor.
Can I turn a fish photo into ASCII art?
You can. The free asciii.com generator converts any fish image into copy-and-paste text art.
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