I need help with the ID of this little guy! I caught him in a small, spring-fed stream in NW GA. I have fished and caught redbreast, longear, and green sunfish in there. He was caught in a minnow trap last August.
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, Mar 17 2014 07:04 PM
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Michael Wolfe
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Posted 17 March 2014 - 07:22 PM
I am not sure that we support the .png file format that you are trying to use, or there is some upload problem... can you re-post them as .jpg?
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Posted 17 March 2014 - 07:39 PM
How do I do that?
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Michael Wolfe
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Posted 17 March 2014 - 07:43 PM
you need to convert the pictures
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Posted 18 March 2014 - 07:00 AM
The bottom picture is when I first got him.
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Posted 18 March 2014 - 10:32 AM
Definitely green based on the more recent shots, but if you'd showed me only the older (bottom) pic I would have guessed longear (small mouth, cheek pattern, no white fin edging, no dorsal blotch). Hard to believe they're the same fish.
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Posted 18 March 2014 - 10:47 AM
I thought the same thing Gerald.
Also, Dallasyork15, I don't want to discourage you from participating here, but I would like to make you aware that the forum rules are that ID requests should be of photos taken streamside (it's best to know for sure what things are before taking them home).
Also, Dallasyork15, I don't want to discourage you from participating here, but I would like to make you aware that the forum rules are that ID requests should be of photos taken streamside (it's best to know for sure what things are before taking them home).
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Posted 18 March 2014 - 11:13 AM
I noticed that too guys but I was afraid it was due to my inexperience with juvenile greens. Dallas, are you certain these are the same fish?
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Posted 18 March 2014 - 11:21 AM
Sorry, guys. When I first got him, I thought for sure that he was a longear, so I didn't care to seek out anymore information on him. But, now as he's grown, he's lost most of the coloration, and started to resemble a green more and more, so I wanted to find a place that could help me identify him. I've kept him in a tank with proper lighting and fed him adequately, and it's just weird and the change that the fish has went through.
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Posted 18 March 2014 - 12:30 PM
I am quite confident those are not the same fish. The entire skeletal structure of a fish's face and mouth doesn't change as it gets older.
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Posted 18 March 2014 - 12:35 PM
It is the same fish, though. I've had him for 7 months. The change he's experienced is really weird.I am quite confident those are not the same fish. The entire skeletal structure of a fish's face and mouth doesn't change as it gets older.
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Posted 18 March 2014 - 08:48 PM
I don't want to beat the dead horse, but I have to restate the common thought going on here:
Pics 1 and 2 are of a Green sunfish.
Pic 3 is not the same fish. I can live with the Longear ID, but either way pic 3 is not a Green/the same fish. Greens look like Greens from a much smaller size than either fish in your pictures. Some of the sunfish experts on here can easily ID juvenile/post-larval sunfish. Your fish are at least a couple of inches.
I'm not trying to speculate here, but I'd like to tell a quick story. I have a friend who has a little brother. Years ago the little brother went out of town and left the care of his *albino hamster to their dad. The dad forgot to feed and water said hamster while his youngest son was out of town. Said hamster died. Their father thought he could easily replace the hamster with an identical looking one, and not be brought up on hamster-cide charges. The switcheroo worked, except a few days later, the son noticed his current hamster's eyes were black, not red. (The father eventually admitted to his crime. No charges were filed).
2 morals to that story. First, the eyes never lie. Second, perhaps someone has performed the ole switcheroo with you when you were away for some unknown reason?
Pics 1 and 2 are of a Green sunfish.
Pic 3 is not the same fish. I can live with the Longear ID, but either way pic 3 is not a Green/the same fish. Greens look like Greens from a much smaller size than either fish in your pictures. Some of the sunfish experts on here can easily ID juvenile/post-larval sunfish. Your fish are at least a couple of inches.
I'm not trying to speculate here, but I'd like to tell a quick story. I have a friend who has a little brother. Years ago the little brother went out of town and left the care of his *albino hamster to their dad. The dad forgot to feed and water said hamster while his youngest son was out of town. Said hamster died. Their father thought he could easily replace the hamster with an identical looking one, and not be brought up on hamster-cide charges. The switcheroo worked, except a few days later, the son noticed his current hamster's eyes were black, not red. (The father eventually admitted to his crime. No charges were filed).
2 morals to that story. First, the eyes never lie. Second, perhaps someone has performed the ole switcheroo with you when you were away for some unknown reason?
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