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DooSPX
10-29-2008, 8:53 PM
Our Bluegill Sunfish, Green Sunfish and our Longear Sunfish.
Please tell us your thoughts!!!
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Virtuoso2K12
10-29-2008, 9:11 PM
WOW,nice colors.
dirtydawg10
10-29-2008, 9:18 PM
Nice looking fish!
Bubbles2112
10-29-2008, 9:20 PM
Awesome fish! Did you catch them yourself or buy them?
DooSPX
10-29-2008, 9:23 PM
we caught them in the Potomac River on a trip to West Virginia
Hooked Newbie
10-29-2008, 9:27 PM
Gorgeous fish! Looks like a great setup. Care to share the specs? I'd love to keep some natives.
DooSPX
10-29-2008, 9:30 PM
its a 55G tank, but all the sunfish but a couple longear are moving to the 65G when the goldfish move to a 120 or bigger.
the plants are also brought back from the river, val and hydrilla (sp)
the large rocks are also from the river.
basically everything but the gravel is from the river.
Fishy_Fun
10-29-2008, 9:35 PM
Nice colors
Vicious_Fish
10-29-2008, 9:39 PM
Great fish! I miss owning sunnies.
pam916
10-30-2008, 4:52 AM
Very nice! I have kept sunfish and a short nosed gar together and it was a great tank.
Aqua Sanctuary
10-30-2008, 5:16 AM
they look delicious.
I mean beautiful!
DooSPX
10-30-2008, 10:11 AM
LOL, thanks guys! keep 'em coming!
powerkit
10-30-2008, 12:40 PM
great pics, i love how natural you kept everything!
saltydunc
10-30-2008, 2:02 PM
very nice looking fish ...cool you caught them yourself :)
caitylee
10-30-2008, 2:07 PM
yep!
The big Bluegill has such a personality!
DooSPX
10-30-2008, 2:35 PM
great pics, i love how natural you kept everything!
natural is an understatement. all but the gravel is from the same part of the river! LOL :eek::thm:
my dog hated life in the truck because the rocks and fish took up alot of room. the plants rode up front with us
SchizotypalVamp
10-30-2008, 5:52 PM
very nice :)
Reddog80p
10-30-2008, 5:59 PM
Coldwater Native tanks rock!
Mgamer20o0
10-31-2008, 2:01 AM
nice
Reefscape
10-31-2008, 2:22 AM
Superb colors...very nice indeed..
DooSPX
10-31-2008, 9:41 AM
thanks, keep em coming....
but on a sad note, now im heart broken... our betta's are sick and dying off quickly. :cry:
excuzzzeme
10-31-2008, 9:53 AM
Nice fish! Nice thing about them is when they get too big for the aquarium they CAN br eleased back into the originating water
DooSPX
10-31-2008, 10:10 AM
I wont do it because of what they can pick up in the aquarium.
jaysen
10-31-2008, 10:44 AM
nice setup and your fish look healthy. i have kept many sunfish in the past. i dont think you have longear sunfish rather a mix of pumpkinseed and redbreasted sunfish. the bluegill looks awesome. i always wanted a small school of crappie. i had a florida green sunfish also for a while, he was very tough but always calm... the peacemaker in the tank. male sunfish are very territorial and will fight a lot so try to monitor it if you see any of those issues. they look great, keep up the good work!
Sploke
10-31-2008, 10:48 AM
I wont do it because of what they can pick up in the aquarium.
Good to hear. I don't know how likely it is, but any possibility at all is too much when it comes to needlessly killing off a local population of fish.
Notophthalmus
10-31-2008, 1:21 PM
Nice sunnies, Caity and Doo! I think Jaysen is right, your brighter sunnies are Pumpkinseeds. The short opercular lobe and 'Indian corn' pattern are distinctive.
Nice fish! Nice thing about them is when they get too big for the aquarium they CAN br eleased back into the originating water
Only if it's a private pond, isolated from all other waters. It is illegal in most US states to return captive fish to public waters. But you can eat them when they get too big! Mmm, fried sunfish....
caitylee
10-31-2008, 2:18 PM
I wanted a pumpkinseed, that would be cool if they were. They were babies when we caught them and hard to determine exactly what we had.
jaysen
10-31-2008, 4:06 PM
well now you know. pumpkinseed and redbreasted. now catch some peacock bass and tilapia for that tank. when i lived in southbeach i couldnt stop catching them.
DooSPX
10-31-2008, 4:15 PM
I would love to have a bluegill, green, p-seed, longear, and red breast because they are all common where I used to live on the potomac.
jaysen
10-31-2008, 4:17 PM
all you are missing is the green and the longear. try fishing the everglades if your in florida. they are all over there.
DooSPX
10-31-2008, 4:22 PM
what is the big yellow one ? (in the pics) his more green/yellow in person
caitylee
11-01-2008, 3:31 PM
:feedback: :)
jaysen
11-01-2008, 6:24 PM
im pretty sure its a redbreasted sunfish. they 3rd pic are females, the first pic im not sure if it is an immature male or a different kind of sunfish. how big and old are they?
in my signature i have the 75 gallon thread and there is a green sunfish and some redbreasted just for comparison.
caitylee
11-01-2008, 7:15 PM
the top pics are all the same two fish....
PuppyFluffer
11-01-2008, 8:34 PM
What part of WV did you get them?
jaysen
11-01-2008, 8:52 PM
then they are both redbreasted sunfish
caitylee
11-02-2008, 1:52 PM
You were correct about the Redbreast part, but I do have Longear's too.
This is from a Maryland DNR Biologist over on NANFA. He knows about the fish found in the Potomac as he test that river.
You have longears and redbreasts. The longears that are introduced into Maryland don't really have the impressive opercular flaps. They do however always have the white margin around the flap. The redbreast typically have the longer opercular flap but have no margin around the black of any pigment. There are also various differences between fin and cheek pigmentation you may notice as well as head-body depth ratio as your fish get older.
gar man
12-31-2008, 5:27 PM
nice collection of sunfish man i have 3 green sunfish also :)
jm1212
01-02-2009, 10:23 AM
nice punpkinseed