First Native Excursion

The non-spot chubs are bluehead chubs, not creek chubs. The scales are very different and should help you in the future with identifications. The blueheads are likely responsible for your mounds as well.

Those are very yellowfinned and remind me of the fish I see in GA(Michael will have to help here as to drainage) and in the piedmont of the Savannah.

Gerald, in my experience, the fish in any given location are very uniform in appearance with little to no variability save for the size and intensity of coloration differences.

Two species of chub in there then. Cool! Do creek chub not make mounds, or are blueheads just more prone to doing it? Makes more sense now that the yellowfins would be here since I read that they are only really found where there are bluehead chub.

More pictures comin' at ya. Since I now know what the fish I found in my parents creek are, I decided to go back and collect some. I have a 29 gallon at home with 2 small creek chub in it from a local creek. Its running a HOB and a 425 gph circulation pump for some riffle simulating current. I originally thought I collected 2 males and 3 females, but after having them a few days I'm starting to think otherwise. A couple of the ones I thought were females colored up after feeding. So now I'm guessing its 1 female and 4 males. But who knows, its hard to sex these guys when they're not in breeding colors. Sorry about the pictures my crappy point and shoot can't keep up with the fast movement.

Heres a group shot. All but one of the smaller yellowfins.



2 of the yellowfins and a chub.



Heres a couple shots to show an example of how one of them randomly colored up after a feeding.





Some shots of my two big males.







And heres the only one of the 5 that doesn't have yellow fins. They're more orange.



Last but not least is my largest male all colored up after a nice meal.

Stunning! I always thought it was funny how much some minnows color up after they get a good meal. That last male is particularly spectacular. Are you planning on breeding them?

Not in the immediate future, as I don't have the space for extra grow out tanks and such. Maybe eventually