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Southeast US Victory Lap Tour - The Photos

Started by Guest_farmertodd_* , May 10 2007 11:03 PM

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#1 Guest_farmertodd_*

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Posted 10 May 2007 - 11:03 PM

Howdy folks, just back from my victory lap tour of the SE US. This page will be morphing as I have time to write content and post things. Is there anyway I can hide it as I work on it?

I'll also have posts in the Inverts and Native Plants, as I did a lot of photography with those topics as well. For now, I'll work on this particular page. This is a dream, not having to fuss with html to post my trip!

At current count, I saw 104 species of fish in the 5 watersheds I visited.

My stops along the way were:

The Duck River between Columbia and Shelbyville, TN

Ashy Darter, Etheostoma cinereum (ST)

Slenderhead Darter, Percina phoxocephala

Streamline Chub, Erimystax dissimilis

Coppercheek Darter (female), Etheostoma aquali (ST)

Coppercheek Darter, Etheostoma aquali (ST)

Gold Darter, Etheostoma denoncourti (SSC)
(Formerly known as Tippecanoe Darter, E. tippecanoe)

Saffron Darter, Etheostoma flavum

The Blackwater River between Crestview and Pensacola, FL

Florida Sand Darter, Ammocrypta bifascia

Rough Shiner, Notropis baileyi

Brown Darter, Etheostoma edwini

Gulf Darter, Etheostoma swaini

Pygmy Killifish, Leptolucania ommata

Sailfin Shiner, Pteronotropis hypselopterus

Tate's Hell Swamp (New River and Oclochnee Drainages, if you can call it that) near Carabelle, FL

Banded Topminnow, Fundulus cingulatus

Dollar Sunfish, Lepomis marginatus

Flier, Centrarchus macropterus

Lake Chubsucker, Erimyzon sucetta

Chain Pickerel, Esox niger

Wakulla River and Springs, Wakulla Springs, FL

Conasauga River, near Chattanooga, TN

Todd

#2 Guest_Irate Mormon_*

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Posted 10 May 2007 - 11:14 PM

I guess Mississippi is right out? We're still in the piscene rainforest, don'tchaknow.

#3 Guest_dsmith73_*

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Posted 11 May 2007 - 06:22 AM

Great trip and pics Todd. I am so jealous.

I am fairly certain that the pickerel you have there is a chain rather than a redfin. The grandis looks odd too, but I can put my finger on it. I don't remember that fish having that type of snout or reddish tinted fins.

#4 Guest_drewish_*

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Posted 11 May 2007 - 09:18 AM

Great pics, looks like a fun time.

The pickerel's snout appears too long to be a redfin. I'm with Dustin and would call it a chain.

#5 Guest_smbass_*

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Posted 11 May 2007 - 11:51 AM

I'll join the club too and say the tail is prety deeply forked to be a redfin and I would say it's a chain too.

#6 Guest_farmertodd_*

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Posted 11 May 2007 - 04:46 PM

Great trip and pics Todd. I am so jealous.

I am fairly certain that the pickerel you have there is a chain rather than a redfin. The grandis looks odd too, but I can put my finger on it. I don't remember that fish having that type of snout or reddish tinted fins.

Thanks Dustin and crew. I didn't even think about it. I guess that makes 105. Wait till you hear what we did with the redfin pickerel

The grandis was way up a blackwater river. There were also hogchoker present, which I can't believe I forgot to add to the page.

Maybe I'll get to write some text tonight.

Todd

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Posted 11 May 2007 - 09:02 PM

Rather than Fundulus grandis, is it F. similis, the longnose killifish a.k.a. tiger minnow? The snout looks too long in that photo, and the fish doesn't have that solid robust look of grandis ("bull minnow") but rather the sleeker look of similis. I was just looking at some longnoses today at the Estuarium at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab, so it's fresh.

#8 Guest_dsmith73_*

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Posted 12 May 2007 - 06:43 AM

Rather than Fundulus grandis, is it F. similis, the longnose killifish a.k.a. tiger minnow? The snout looks too long in that photo, and the fish doesn't have that solid robust look of grandis ("bull minnow") but rather the sleeker look of similis. I was just looking at some longnoses today at the Estuarium at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab, so it's fresh.

The snout does look more like similis to me as well, but the body color is decidedly not similis. I have never seen a live speciment without the striping or barring pattern. The reddish fins really have me stumped as well. What about washed out seminole?

#9 Guest_dredcon_*

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Posted 16 May 2007 - 06:57 PM

I am keeping both grandis and similis right now and I am pretty sure it's neither of them.

#10 Guest_daveneely_*

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Posted 17 May 2007 - 02:31 PM

Tates Hell is too fresh for me to expect Fundulus grandis or F. similis, and too far west for F. seminolis. My money is on it being a washed-out funky F. cingulatus...

Cheers,
Dave

#11 Guest_NateTessler13_*

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Posted 21 May 2007 - 11:56 PM

When did the common name of Tippecanoe Darter change to Golden Darter? Or did I miss something..? I can tell some of these are underwater shots too...which ones are underwater and which ones are photo tank? You do a great job with both.

#12 Guest_farmertodd_*

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Posted 22 May 2007 - 01:15 PM

When did the common name of Tippecanoe Darter change to Golden Darter? Or did I miss something..? I can tell some of these are underwater shots too...which ones are underwater and which ones are photo tank? You do a great job with both.

It didn't. There was a split of E. tippecanoe in the Cumberlandian Province for E. denoncourti.

Thanks for your compliment, mission accomplished. These were all photographed in a 2.5 gal aquarium besides the gold darter and the pygmy killifish. Those were done in the little AquaZoo hand tank I have.