Mud Sunfish
#1
Posted 20 March 2018 - 09:46 AM
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Yup, it's the same fish. It goes through pattern changes fairly quickly. The water appears brown because it is. I brought home several gallons of the fish's native water, and plants and sediment, too. Even after a month and a half and water changes, it's still pretty dark in that tank. Everybody seems to like it though...
"No thanks, a third of a gopher would merely arouse my appetite..."
#2
Posted 20 March 2018 - 11:08 AM
Mud suns make wonderful pets.
Gerald Pottern
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Hangin' on the Neuse
"Taxonomy is the diaper used to organize the mess of evolution into discrete packages" - M.Sandel
#3
Posted 20 March 2018 - 11:14 AM
I still want to play with those sometime.
#4
Posted 20 March 2018 - 12:32 PM
#5
Posted 20 March 2018 - 02:37 PM
#6
Posted 20 March 2018 - 02:42 PM
#7
Posted 20 March 2018 - 11:10 PM
They remind me of Oscar cichlids in behavior.
Gerald Pottern
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Hangin' on the Neuse
"Taxonomy is the diaper used to organize the mess of evolution into discrete packages" - M.Sandel
#8
Posted 21 March 2018 - 05:52 AM
Look at size and shape of the pectoral fin. Something is up with it either in adults or an early lifestage.
#9
Posted 21 March 2018 - 06:04 AM
Kinda funny how things work out. I only kept it because I knew how popular they are with other NANFAns. It didn't really do much for me, nor did the only other one I had seen several years ago. I tried to give it to the two closest NANFAns I have easy access to. Michael W. declined saying he was a "minnow guy" and encouraged me to keep it. I tried to give it to Dustin, and he was interested, but meeting up was going to take longer than expected and shortly enough the fish had won me over and I'd come to see why they're so popular. By that time the fish had earned the name "Meat", cuz well, it just seemed to fit. I sheepishly asked Dustin if he'd mind if I kept the fish and he allowed me to. As a token of gratitude, I have renamed the critter "Dustin Meat". (If it is ever determined the fish is a female, she'll be "Dustina".
"No thanks, a third of a gopher would merely arouse my appetite..."
#10
Posted 21 March 2018 - 07:38 AM
As a token of gratitude, I have renamed the critter "Dustin Meat". (If it is ever determined the fish is a female, she'll be "Dustina".
Um, thanks, I think.
Beautiful fish Matt. I actually just caught one about that exact same size this past weekend at Bahama Swamp. I was in the area so I checked in on the okatie. Only got two females in about 30 scoops, but probably close to 100 evergladei. I'm a little worried about them.
Dustin Smith
At the convergence of the Broad, Saluda and Congaree
Lexington, SC
#11
Posted 21 March 2018 - 04:01 PM
It's been at least a year since I've been in Bahama Swamp. Don't recall any Okaties then, either. Not sure of the time of year. Don't recall Evergladei either, so maybe the time wasn't right. Stopped at some roadside ditches outside Jasper park and did get plenty of non-Okatie pygmies, but no Okaties. Hopefully the little dudes are just in a different area than we are...
"No thanks, a third of a gopher would merely arouse my appetite..."
#12
Posted 22 March 2018 - 01:38 PM
Some years I found mostly okaties and in other years mostly zonatum. But that was several decades ago. Go to see that someone is checking on them.
#13
Posted 23 March 2018 - 09:38 AM
I don't remember seeing zonatum there over the last 12-15 years, at least not in numbers. For a while, it was almost entirely okatie, and a lot of them. Now it is almost entirely evergladei, and a lot of them.
Dustin Smith
At the convergence of the Broad, Saluda and Congaree
Lexington, SC
#14
Posted 25 March 2018 - 09:52 PM
Freshwater Aquarist
South Carolina Aquarium
Charleston, SC
#15
Posted 03 April 2018 - 05:45 AM
Some years I found mostly okaties and in other years mostly zonatum. But that was several decades ago. Go to see that someone is checking on them.
Why does this happen, I wonder. Does it have something to do with the conditions that change year by year?
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