Knifemaker
rangespotted sunfish (OSS) are an excellent chioce for an aquarium. I keep OSS along with over 30 other US native species. OSS are NOT AGRESSIVE!!!! These fish are very docile and can be kept along with most any fish it can't fit in it's mouth. I keep mine along with balckbandeds(which aren't very hard to keep). OSS prefer cover (driftwood and plants), will eat most dead and live foods. I feed most of my fish shrimp (chopped and frozen from the supermarket) or raw chopped fish. OSS tend not to take to dry pellets as other native may. Live feeds are not required for OSS or blackbandeds.
BTW: Green sunfish have half the color of OSS and ten times the attitude. Green sunfish will bully things much larger than themselves.
Natives basically have a highly variable tempers. Many people don't know any better and think all sunfish are mean but actually very few are bullys like green sunfish.
And that gar above is either a spotted or florida (not long or shortnose)
rangespotted sunfish (OSS) are an excellent chioce for an aquarium. I keep OSS along with over 30 other US native species. OSS are NOT AGRESSIVE!!!! These fish are very docile and can be kept along with most any fish it can't fit in it's mouth. I keep mine along with balckbandeds(which aren't very hard to keep). OSS prefer cover (driftwood and plants), will eat most dead and live foods. I feed most of my fish shrimp (chopped and frozen from the supermarket) or raw chopped fish. OSS tend not to take to dry pellets as other native may. Live feeds are not required for OSS or blackbandeds. BTW: Green sunfish have half the color of OSS and ten times the attitude. Green sunfish will bully things much larger than themselves.
Natives basically have a highly variable tempers. Many people don't know any better and think all sunfish are mean but actually very few are bullys like green sunfish.
And that gar above is either a spotted or florida (not long or shortnose)
