Starry Fish

Starry Fish is a knockoff Billy Bass by an unknown company.

Appearance

They have silver, rectangular plaques with a large background sticker that either shows a reef with fish, or a castle in the sky with bubbles and stars (or sparkles?), and sailboats on water below.

Starry Fish can come in four variants, including:

• Koi — White with orange and yellow spots
• Perch — The top of the fish, its dorsal fins, and the area by its eyes is dark green, and so is the area where its tail starts. The body of the fish is mostly white, but it has a yellow, horizontal stripe and a larger, horizontal, orange stripe on its body, and its other fins are painted orange and yellow. Four, green, vertical lines stem from the top, green area of the fish downwards ontop of the orange and yellow stripes. Its tail starts off with a bit of yellow, but is mostly orange. Its dorsal fins have a bit of orange.
• Green bass — Looks like Billy
• Bergundy bass — Painted like Billy, but the top of the fish, the area where its eyes are, its dorsal fins, and tail are bergundy instead of dark green, and the fish has orange spots and orange stripes instead of green ones.

Functions

The fish flaps its tail, turns its head towards you, and moves its mouth as it sings. It plays a short part of "Country Roads" and "La Bamba", and each song recording in the toy loops thrice.

According to the box, it's supposed to have an alarm on its plaque, but no footage of one with an alarm appears to have been documented publicly. The back of the plaque does have an empty spot where you should be able to change the alarm's batteries, even though there is no alarm. Some Starry Fish plaques have bubbles arranged in a way that seems to imply there's supposed to be a clock on the plaque.

There is only speculation that Starry Fishes with alarms may have been produced.

Note

They are only known to have been sold in Russia on Avito and eBay. I didn't state this outside this heading, since at the time these were showing up for sale, I didn't archive any of the Russian listings to include them as proof; I wasn't archiving things related to singing fish at the time. The eBay seller had multiple Starry Fishes, which is where some people in the singing fish community purchased theirs from.

I think there's a slight chance they may have been sold outside Russia as well, but I'm just speculating.

Videos

Links

• Starry Fish wiki page (source of most images)
• Starry Fish koi photo