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Yellowfin Orange Bucket

Started by Michael Wolfe , Aug 11 2014 09:22 PM

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#1 Michael Wolfe

Board of Directors

North Georgia, Oconee River Drainage

Posted 11 August 2014 - 09:22 PM

We had a group of Georgia NANFAns out in an Atlanta Suburb on Saturday. We were in the Chattahoochee drainage and saw many of the common species we would expect; Striped Jumprocks, Hogsuckers, Bluehead Chubs, Snail Bullheads, Redbreast and Bluegill Sunfish, Largemouth Bass, Gambusia, Stonerollers, Southern Studfish and Yellowfin Shiners.

And oh what Yellowfins Shiners we saw... these fish continue to amaze me. We saw some that seemed normal enough to me...
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and then we saw some that seemed to be a little more colored...
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and then I know y'all have heard about white bucket syndrome... but we are here in Atlanta... the land of Home Depot... so all our buckets are orange... this fish seemed to have orange bucket syndrome... he did everything he could... I cannot believe all the variations that exist in these fish!
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#2 Guest_NotCousteau_*

Guests

Posted 11 August 2014 - 09:46 PM

Great pictures! Thanks for sharing!

#3 Isaac Szabo

NANFA Member

Marble Falls, AR

Posted 11 August 2014 - 11:41 PM

Great pictures and very cool fish! That last one is just awesome!

#4 Guest_jblaylock_*

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Posted 12 August 2014 - 09:20 AM

That's a cool fish.

#5 Guest_blakemarkwell_*

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Posted 12 August 2014 - 10:33 AM

Excellent stuff, Michael! Anyone who holds fish for photography is well acquainted with the remarkable metachrosis they can display.

#6 Guest_gerald_*

Guests

Posted 12 August 2014 - 11:48 AM

Was #3 that color right out of the creek, or he did he orange-up after being in the bucket awhile?

#7 Michael Wolfe

Board of Directors

North Georgia, Oconee River Drainage

Posted 12 August 2014 - 11:57 AM

He was not that color right out of the creek, although he did look colored up for a "normal" yellowfin... more like photo #2 or maybe a little more intense... but not so crazy orange.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. - Benjamin Franklin

#8 Guest_gerald_*

Guests

Posted 12 August 2014 - 02:47 PM

Maybe Home Depot should fund Mollie Cashner's research (and donate buckets) 8-[

#9 Guest_mikez_*

Guests

Posted 12 August 2014 - 06:24 PM

I brought some mollies home from Fl recently in a bright orange cooler. The wild males had mad red-orange heads under sunlight which I hoped would translate under artificial lighting.
Oh boy was I excited when I took my big male out of the orange cooler and put him in a tank! Bright orange head glowing under the lights.
Lasted a few minutes and has never come back.

#10 Guest_guyswartwout_*

Guests

Posted 12 August 2014 - 07:56 PM

Fascinating. Thank you for posting.

#11 Guest_Stickbow_*

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Posted 12 August 2014 - 10:34 PM

Thanks for posting these - wish I could have been there. I'd be busy setting up another tank, I'm afraid, much to my wife's disapproval.

#12 Michael Wolfe

Board of Directors

North Georgia, Oconee River Drainage

Posted 13 August 2014 - 06:48 AM

Yellowfins make great aquarium fish usually. But I emailed these pics to Mollie Cashner and she indicated that she has seen similar extreme coloration from post spawning individuals near the end of life. So like always the biggest and brightest don't always make the best aquarium inhabitants. Smaller, younger specimens adapt better.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. - Benjamin Franklin