I have:
4 flagfish
2 bluefin killies
10 cambarellus shufeldtii
1 procambarus clarkii
1 orconectes immunis ( I think that's what it is. I caught it locally. It's hard to get a good picture.)
I hope to add more natives to my collection this year.
Most common natives kept poll.
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Posted 31 January 2008 - 08:37 PM
55gal tank:
3 golden shiners
2 baby yellow bullhead (soon to get rid)
1 slender madtom
20gal
Western gambusia females group
a lone eastern male gambusia
a lone female flexipenis vittatus
20gal
Group of bluefins killies
Group of medakas
20gal
Orangetailed goodeids
Bass goodeids
10gal
4 Rainwater killies
5 younger golden topminnows.
Of course there are some tropical fishes:
20ish Endlers (pet strains)
20ish Feeder guppies
7 Platies (pet strains)
2 Variatus (pet strains)
3 Swordtails (pet strains)
1 Molly (pet strains)
1 Daffondi cichlid
1 Kenyi cichlid
1 Blood parrot cichlid
1 Buenos aires tetra
6 cherry shrimps
Too many snails
3 golden shiners
2 baby yellow bullhead (soon to get rid)
1 slender madtom
20gal
Western gambusia females group
a lone eastern male gambusia
a lone female flexipenis vittatus
20gal
Group of bluefins killies
Group of medakas
20gal
Orangetailed goodeids
Bass goodeids
10gal
4 Rainwater killies
5 younger golden topminnows.
Of course there are some tropical fishes:
20ish Endlers (pet strains)
20ish Feeder guppies
7 Platies (pet strains)
2 Variatus (pet strains)
3 Swordtails (pet strains)
1 Molly (pet strains)
1 Daffondi cichlid
1 Kenyi cichlid
1 Blood parrot cichlid
1 Buenos aires tetra
6 cherry shrimps
Too many snails
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Posted 01 February 2008 - 01:52 AM
Sunfish:
2 lg 1 sm redspot
1 lg 5 sm central longear
3 lg 4 pair sm orangespots
2 lg 12 sm bluespotted young from SC, Va, NJ
1 med bantam
1 redbreast
3 small pumpkinseed
4 eastern dollars
7 lg 15 young banded
4 lg 17 young blackbanded
3 lg 3 sm mud
6 northern longear
2 warmouth
5 sm rockbass
Shiners, minnows and dace:
2 golden
1 emerald
1 lg male central stoneroller
9 red
1 common
1 spotfin
10 young tallapoosa
4 rainbow
4 sailfins
8 northern redbelly dace
3 young finescale dace (?)
2 greenhead
10 highland shiners
6 redside dace
15 southern redbelly dace
10 pearl dace
5 bleeding shiners
6 redlips
3 steelcolor
7 rosyside dace
8 crescent
12 mountain redbelly dace
5 rosyface
Darters:
4 slough all male
10 rainbow
4 orangethroats
1 shield
4 logperch
5 swamp
2 tesselated
12 roanoke
5 banded
3 greenfin
6 male Tn snubnose
4 tippecanoe
3 crystal
3 redspot
3 variegate
2 longfin
5 bluebreast
3 fantail
others:
1 pr lined topminnows
1 gorgeous Adirondack brook trout
1 tadpole madtom
3 mt madtoms
2 brindled madtoms
1 channel cat
1- six inch redfin pickeral
2-3 pair Elassoma evergladei
3 central mudminnows
10 eastern mudminnows
2 sm hogchokers
12 mummichugs
2 creek chubsuckers
6 Ameca splendens
10 least killies
10 dwarf crays
1 softshell turtle
5 stinkpots
2 eastern painted
2 redear sliders
1 ? turtle
2 common snappers
2 lg 1 sm redspot
1 lg 5 sm central longear
3 lg 4 pair sm orangespots
2 lg 12 sm bluespotted young from SC, Va, NJ
1 med bantam
1 redbreast
3 small pumpkinseed
4 eastern dollars
7 lg 15 young banded
4 lg 17 young blackbanded
3 lg 3 sm mud
6 northern longear
2 warmouth
5 sm rockbass
Shiners, minnows and dace:
2 golden
1 emerald
1 lg male central stoneroller
9 red
1 common
1 spotfin
10 young tallapoosa
4 rainbow
4 sailfins
8 northern redbelly dace
3 young finescale dace (?)
2 greenhead
10 highland shiners
6 redside dace
15 southern redbelly dace
10 pearl dace
5 bleeding shiners
6 redlips
3 steelcolor
7 rosyside dace
8 crescent
12 mountain redbelly dace
5 rosyface
Darters:
4 slough all male
10 rainbow
4 orangethroats
1 shield
4 logperch
5 swamp
2 tesselated
12 roanoke
5 banded
3 greenfin
6 male Tn snubnose
4 tippecanoe
3 crystal
3 redspot
3 variegate
2 longfin
5 bluebreast
3 fantail
others:
1 pr lined topminnows
1 gorgeous Adirondack brook trout
1 tadpole madtom
3 mt madtoms
2 brindled madtoms
1 channel cat
1- six inch redfin pickeral
2-3 pair Elassoma evergladei
3 central mudminnows
10 eastern mudminnows
2 sm hogchokers
12 mummichugs
2 creek chubsuckers
6 Ameca splendens
10 least killies
10 dwarf crays
1 softshell turtle
5 stinkpots
2 eastern painted
2 redear sliders
1 ? turtle
2 common snappers
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Posted 01 February 2008 - 10:35 AM
Hey, Mike-
Do you mind posting a photo of your "? turtle"? Maybe we can ID it for you!
Do you mind posting a photo of your "? turtle"? Maybe we can ID it for you!
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Posted 03 February 2008 - 02:26 AM
5 rainbow darters <3
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Posted 03 February 2008 - 02:31 AM
Look in my sig. That's all my current fish. I'm also getting 4 rainbow darters.
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Posted 03 February 2008 - 07:03 PM
Add bluefin killie to my list. Found a lone female in the glass shrimp tank in Pruese's pets, in Lansing today!Look in my sig. That's all my current fish. I'm also getting 4 rainbow darters.
Now on the lookout for a companion or two for her.
Weird color though.."ice" may best describe it. She's a pearl like "clear-white" with just a hint of blue.
Of course, the typical stripe is present. NOT a pale or sick "on deaths bed" white by any means...more like an albino, but with color..very hard to really describe..
It also really does not appear to be just due to her still being stressed(although, it's entirely possible)..as she's settled in is out among the other fish already, after a brief period of orientation in the jungle end of the tank. She IS the victim of minor(so far) harasement..but does not seem freaked out by it.(the bright white color may be why, IMO).
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Posted 04 February 2008 - 03:01 PM
If it has any blue or red what so ever it is a male not a female. Females have very clear fins with 0 red or blue. Males take some time and good care to get them to look real nice.
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Posted 04 February 2008 - 04:47 PM
Nope Brian, the fins are completely glass clear. The body itself has an odd, white-blue overall tint. The fish seems very healthy and well adjusted, has already gotten into the grove and hangs out with the shiners and dace, holds it's own feeding also.(sorry for the partial derail of the thread!)If it has any blue or red what so ever it is a male not a female. Females have very clear fins with 0 red or blue. Males take some time and good care to get them to look real nice.
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Posted 11 February 2008 - 06:51 PM
What do you feed the spotfin butterfly?How large is it.I have trouble getting those to eat enough.They will eat,but still slowly waste away.
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Posted 11 February 2008 - 08:08 PM
What do you feed the spotfin butterfly?How large is it.I have trouble getting those to eat enough.They will eat,but still slowly waste away.
The fish below was 5 years old when that pic was taken. It was the size of a saucer [as in cup and saucer]. It was the size of a dime when collected. Still had the post larval shape.
Very important is to not let it get thin in the first few days before it adapts to captivity. The little ones don't do well if not fed plenty. Put live rocks and seaweed that have lots of inverts attached. Add live mussels. They will pick at the critters on the rocks while adapting to captivity. When the food starts getting thin, they'll find the live mussels and start to pick at it when the shell is open.
That's the signal for the second, most important secret.
Crack open a live mussel! Once they take one peck at a opened live mussel, you're out of the woods. All you need is a source of live or frozen mussels and you're good to go.
Don't waste time trying floating or suspended foods like frozen brine or flakes. [Some do learn to eat those later in captive life] They are grazers. They want to pick at their food and they want to do it all day.
Give 'em plenty of hiding places, especially when first collected.
Don't keep with dominating or aggressive fish until they're very tame and large in size. After that, they can take care of themselves.
I completely guarantee sucsess with this method providing fish were healthy at capture and were cared for properly during trasportation.
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Posted 11 February 2008 - 09:32 PM
I completely guarantee sucsess with this method providing fish were healthy at capture and were cared for properly during trasportation.
Or his money back?
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Posted 15 February 2008 - 02:00 PM
So has anybody determined the most popular fish from this list yet?
I have:
2 green sunfish
2 bluegill
1 pumpkinseed
3 stonecats
and count em if ya want
2 mollies
a bunch of convict cichlids
I have:
2 green sunfish
2 bluegill
1 pumpkinseed
3 stonecats
and count em if ya want
2 mollies
a bunch of convict cichlids
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Posted 22 February 2008 - 08:09 AM
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2 downloadsAt the moment I am getting ready to expand my collection quite a bit but for now I have.....55gal stream tank w/ 2-300gal/hr aquaclear hob filters, a Tunze nanostream 1600 gal/hr flow pump, and deep sand/gravel substrate.
4- W. Blacknose dace (2 adult/2juv.)
5- Southern Redbelly Dace
3- Redside Dace
2- silver shiners
2- Silver jaw minnows
2- Creek chubsuckers
1- white sucker
1- unidentified moxostoma sp.
2- northern hogsuckers
2- Tadpole madtoms
1- logperch
2- johnny darters
1- iowa darter
3- Rainbowdarters
2-orange throat darters
2-greensided darters
2- banded darters
2-fantail darters
1- varigate darter
3- blackstripe topminnows
ok I realize my density is up there but everybody seems happy and my suckers all eat well and seem to be growing.
40 gal wide- preadator tank 2 150 gal/hr aquaclear hob filters, airstone, deep sand substrate
1- longnose gar ( juv. -a rescue case...)
2- c. mudminnows
1- grass pickerel
1- stonecat madtom
2- mottled sculpins
1- mudpuppy
15 gal cyprinid tank 150 gal/ hr aquaclear hob and reallydeep sand rock substrate
just started stocking this tank, I hope to pack around 15 species in here
1 bluntnose minnow
2- spotfin shiners
1- sand/mimic shiner
1- fathead minnow
1- emerald shiner
1- creek chub (juv)
1-spottail shiner
1- goldfish
15 gal centarchid tank - just set this one up but again the plan is to stock large # sp / small individuals
The pictures are old so the cyprinid/centarchid tanks aren't set up yet.
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Posted 22 February 2008 - 12:17 PM
My collection:
4-pumpkinseeds
2-green sunfish
1-bluegill
2-tadpole madtoms
2-yellow perch
Definately looks like sunfish may be the most common kept!
4-pumpkinseeds
2-green sunfish
1-bluegill
2-tadpole madtoms
2-yellow perch
Definately looks like sunfish may be the most common kept!
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Posted 22 February 2008 - 12:24 PM
1 pumpkinseed sunfish, 5"? (8 mos in captivity)
1 black bullhead, 8" or so (19 mos in captivity)
1 brown bullhead, 7" or so (19 mos in captivity)
31 gambusia (destined as feeders, 6 months in captivity)
1 bluegill, 1", somehow surviving with the big fish (6 months in captivity)
all living at work, in a 75g and a 29g. my workplace is awesome.
1 black bullhead, 8" or so (19 mos in captivity)
1 brown bullhead, 7" or so (19 mos in captivity)
31 gambusia (destined as feeders, 6 months in captivity)
1 bluegill, 1", somehow surviving with the big fish (6 months in captivity)
all living at work, in a 75g and a 29g. my workplace is awesome.
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Posted 25 February 2008 - 08:45 PM
tom your mosquito fish are holbrooki not affinisFor a list of what natives I keep click here.
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Posted 26 February 2008 - 12:29 PM
My Natives:
Catfish:
1 Adult Yellow Bullhead 16''
1 Adult Yellow Bullhead 12''
1 Juv. Yellow Bullhead 3''
1 Juv. Yellow Bullhead 1''
Sunfish:
4 Bantam Sunfish-all approx. 3''
1 Green Sunfish-approx. 2''
4 Warmouth Sunfish-all approx. 1''
1 Unidentified Minnow/Shiner/Something?
Catfish:
1 Adult Yellow Bullhead 16''
1 Adult Yellow Bullhead 12''
1 Juv. Yellow Bullhead 3''
1 Juv. Yellow Bullhead 1''
Sunfish:
4 Bantam Sunfish-all approx. 3''
1 Green Sunfish-approx. 2''
4 Warmouth Sunfish-all approx. 1''
1 Unidentified Minnow/Shiner/Something?
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Posted 26 February 2008 - 03:25 PM
I have bothtom your mosquito fish are holbrooki not affinis
I also do not have a 100% complete listing on my site.
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