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Common Shiner?

Started by Guest_Burbot_* , Aug 22 2009 04:20 PM

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#1 Guest_Burbot_*

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Posted 22 August 2009 - 04:20 PM

Well I went out for chubs today and brought back this fellow. I thought he was a small chub, but now I am thinking common shiner. What say you?

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#2 Guest_ashtonmj_*

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Posted 22 August 2009 - 05:11 PM

Nope. Scales are far to fine.

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#3 Guest_FirstChAoS_*

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Posted 22 August 2009 - 06:00 PM

Nope. Scales are far to fine.

I am not sure what it is, most commons i see have a slightly fatter shape and their scales reflect blue.

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#4 Guest_panfisherteen_*

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Posted 22 August 2009 - 06:08 PM

Brassy Minnow possibly?

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#5 Guest_bumpylemon_*

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Posted 22 August 2009 - 06:08 PM

it doesnt look like a common shiner to me...

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#6 Guest_BTDarters_*

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Posted 22 August 2009 - 09:31 PM

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that that's a large Fathead Minnow (Pimephales promelas). Good pictures, by the way. It always helps making an ID when you can take good pictures and a lot of them. Nice job!

Brian

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#7 Guest_jdphish_*

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Posted 22 August 2009 - 09:51 PM

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that that's a large Fathead Minnow (Pimephales promelas). Good pictures, by the way. It always helps making an ID when you can take good pictures and a lot of them. Nice job!

Brian

Gets my vote.

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#8 Guest_Burbot_*

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Posted 23 August 2009 - 12:20 AM

Dang! I thought I was getting the hang of this stuff

Thanks. i will post some more once he gets his colours back. of course, my ID guide uses a breeding male for the picture of a fathead, which is a way different colour scheme. The shape seems a little more slender than the fathead, but hey, i also thought it was a shiner so what do I know.

Edited by Burbot, 23 August 2009 - 12:26 AM.

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#9 Guest_Kanus_*

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Posted 23 August 2009 - 01:23 PM

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that that's a large Fathead Minnow (Pimephales promelas). Good pictures, by the way. It always helps making an ID when you can take good pictures and a lot of them. Nice job!

Brian

I was thinking the same.

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#10 Guest_smbass_*

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Posted 26 August 2009 - 07:37 AM

It is either a brassy minnow or a fathead but I'm not real sure which.

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#11 Guest_NateTessler13_*

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Posted 26 August 2009 - 09:29 AM

Fathead Minnow (Pimephales promelas)

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#12 Guest_Burbot_*

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Posted 26 August 2009 - 10:16 AM

Thanks guys. Fatheads are in my watershed, but brassy are not, so I don't have to worry about telling them apart.

Now I know. I took more pictures, had trouble loading them, your ID's are all I need.

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#13 Guest_Burbot_*

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Posted 30 August 2009 - 09:49 PM

Thanks guys. Fatheads are in my watershed, but brassy are not, so I don't have to worry about telling them apart.

Now I know. I took more pictures, had trouble loading them, your ID's are all I need.

OK so my fathead got some weird sort of soft white growth on him beside the dorsal fin. It came off when I touched it, but another fathead got it too. I will post pictures if I can, but the second fish is dead, and the first one has not regrown it...