Predator Fish — dune

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The predator fish was a species of fish native to Arrakis. The Fremen planted predator fish in their stored water cisterns to keep out Sandtrout^[1] and prevent them from encysting the irrigation water of the tribe.^[2]

Appearances

Children of Dune

References

↑ Children of Dune, Beneath him, its distance foreshortened by darkness, an open stretch of qanat gleamed in moonlight; its surface rippled with movements of predator fish which Fremen always planted in their stored water to keep out the sandtrout.
↑ Children of Dune, There they could move beside the predator fish which kept sandtrout from encysting the tribe's irrigation water.

[1] Children of Dune, Beneath him, its distance foreshortened by darkness, an open stretch of qanat gleamed in moonlight; its surface rippled with movements of predator fish which Fremen always planted in their stored water to keep out the sandtrout.

[2] Children of Dune, There they could move beside the predator fish which kept sandtrout from encysting the tribe's irrigation water.

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