Does anyone own one or have a picture of one?
Green x Longear Hybrid
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, Mar 18 2014 07:42 PM
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Posted 18 March 2014 - 07:47 PM
I have pictures but digging them up is not easy. There may be some posted here from a while back.
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Posted 18 March 2014 - 09:09 PM
How about this one?
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Posted 18 March 2014 - 09:50 PM
Wow... who wouldda thought?
I wonder if it has a dark spot at the rear of the dorsal, something Greens have.
Body shape is a good split between the roundish Longear and long basslike Green.
Both species have ears trimmed in white.
I don't recall Greens having the wavey rays of blue on their faces.
I figured a Green was extra mean to all nest visitors except for his desired Ms Green. I see the Longears as more peaceful but that is a romantic wish. In the wild they can be quite aggressive and defenders of their nests and will sometimes bite your pinky.
I am curious what those who know have to say.
I wonder if it has a dark spot at the rear of the dorsal, something Greens have.
Body shape is a good split between the roundish Longear and long basslike Green.
Both species have ears trimmed in white.
I don't recall Greens having the wavey rays of blue on their faces.
I figured a Green was extra mean to all nest visitors except for his desired Ms Green. I see the Longears as more peaceful but that is a romantic wish. In the wild they can be quite aggressive and defenders of their nests and will sometimes bite your pinky.
I am curious what those who know have to say.
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Posted 19 March 2014 - 06:09 AM
Ben,
You example does not look like an F1 hybrid. The only character not typical of greens is the lines on cheaks. Mouth smallish but greens can do that on small critter diet. If hybrid then backcross to green.
You example does not look like an F1 hybrid. The only character not typical of greens is the lines on cheaks. Mouth smallish but greens can do that on small critter diet. If hybrid then backcross to green.
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Posted 19 March 2014 - 06:16 AM
I would think that crossing an F1 Green hybrid back to a Green would produce at least some of the lighter colored edging on the anal and rear dorsal fins that is the quick giveaway to a Green. It's not apparent on that fish, at least in that pic.
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Posted 19 March 2014 - 08:50 AM
Even F1's have the lighter colored edging. That character is dominant when greens are crossed with bluegill, pumpkinseed, warmouth and longear sunfish. Only crosses where yellow trim not obvious involved red spotted sunfish. If F1, then fish would look a lot more like a longear.
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Posted 19 March 2014 - 09:03 AM
In that case, might Ben's fish fish be a longear x pumpkinseed? Where was it caught?
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Posted 19 March 2014 - 09:16 AM
Pumpkinseed crosses I made had the yellow trim. Is it possible the fish came from a body of water with hybrid bluegill (green female x male bluegill). The FX's sometimes look as shown.
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Posted 19 March 2014 - 09:17 AM
In that case, might Ben's fish fish be a longear x pumpkinseed? Where was it caught?
That fish was from a tributary ditch of the Kaskaskia River in Champaign County, IL. I caught an equal mix of pure greens and pure longears at that location. There were a few bluegills mixed in too, but not as many. In theory a pumpkinseed could be there, but it would be extremely unlikely.
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Posted 19 March 2014 - 09:34 AM
That fish has bluegill in the more I look at it.
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Posted 19 March 2014 - 09:48 AM
This was a rather nice green x hybrid. After put into my tank it slowly established dominance against a large Longear.
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