i am hoping these guys are pygmy sunfish, but they kinda look like sheepshead minnows, i was looking for a definitive id. i caught them in osprey florida south of sarasota. they are pretty tiny now but i think the pics show off their major details
pygmy Sunfish ID?
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, Sep 12 2009 11:39 PM
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Posted 12 September 2009 - 11:56 PM
Your hunch was right - Sheepshead minnow.
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Posted 13 September 2009 - 08:05 AM
Will is right, those are definitely sheepshead minnows. You will have to go a little farther inland to get pygmies.
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Posted 13 September 2009 - 04:55 PM
do pygmys prefere ponds and lakes, or streams and creeks?
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Posted 13 September 2009 - 08:45 PM
Still water + lots of vegetation = pygmy heaven. At least in TN, E. zonatum is usually in marshes, swamps, ditches, or backwaters associated with floodplains of streams or rivers, but not in the stream channels.
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Posted 13 September 2009 - 11:29 PM
I didn't know you were a member here too. Nice to see a familiar face.
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Posted 13 September 2009 - 11:39 PM
yup, just in case i find a neat fish around here 
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