Most of the Centrarchid family and a few others...

Took some time to take some in tank shots of a lot of my fish last week.

Ambloplites sp. are very camera shy so these are not so great, and these are all rather new fish for me so they are small...

Shadow Bass Ambloplites ariommus
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Roanoke Bass Ambloplites cavifrons
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Ozark Bass Ambloplites constellatus
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I have had three of these for a while now from a hatchery in CA. They seem to grow very very very slow...

Sacramento Perch Archoplites interruptus
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Not the first time I have ever had these but the individuals I have now are new from the FL convention...

Flier Centrarchus macropterus
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The latter two of these tend to really loose colors when they are cold so don't look like much on the cold end of the basement in the middle of winter...

Blackbanded Sunfish Enneacanthus chaetodon this is actually a large male guarding a nest I keep these in my display planted tank in the warmer half of the basement.
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Bluespotted Sunfish Enneacanthus gloriosus
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Banded Sunfish Enneacanthus obesus
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And the big group of the more typical sunfishes all males except the warmouth which is a female...

Redbreast Sunfish Lepomis auritus
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Green Sunfish Lepomis cyanellus
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Pumpkinseed Sunfish Lepomis gibbosus
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Warmouth Sunfish Lepomis gulosus
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Orangespotted Sunfish Lepomis humilis
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Eastern Dollar Sunfish Lepomis marginatus A rather small young male
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Western Dollar Sunfish Lepomis marginatus
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This is my wife's pet, he has his own tank and gets all sorts of special treatment.
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This fish was caught at the 2006 convention in MO he killed the original female but is still going strong and is about 5.5 inches long.

Louisiana stock the Mississippi Embayment form of Longear Sunfish Lepomis megalotis it has been recently pointed out this is probably an undescribed subspecies
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Missouri form of Longear Sunfish Lepomis megalotis Hey Centrarchid which subspecies would these technically be? L. m. megalotis or one of the others?
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Northern Longear from Great Lakes Drainage Lepomis megalotis peltastes
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Redspotted Sunfish Lepomis miniatus
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Young male
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Another original MO convention fish and I still have an original female as well.

Blackspotted Sunfish Lepomis punctatus Rather small fish from the FL convention.
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Bantam Sunfish Lepomis symmetricus
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And a couple Hybrids
gulosus x macrochirus
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gibosus x humilis
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And I do have a few of one Black Bass species...

Redeye Bass Micropterus coosae
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And some non-sunfish...

A couple minnows
Female Lowland Shiner Prernotropis stonei
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Male Alafia Shiner Prernotropis sp.
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A nice southern brown bullhead Ameiurus nebulosus
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Least Lillifish (I hate this name since these are not a killifish these should be pygmy livebearers or something like that) Heterandria formosa
females
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and a male
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And last a couple pygmy sunfish shots...

Female banded pygmy sunfish Elassoma zonatum
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Male Okefenokee Pygmy Sunfish Elassoma okefenokee
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Woops looks like I double posted one of the banded pygmy shots and forgot to place the second banded sunfish shot, and it is not letting me edit this now... Maybe one of the global moderators could fix this real quick?

Woops looks like I double posted one of the banded pygmy shots and forgot to place the second banded sunfish shot, and it is not letting me edit this now... Maybe one of the global moderators could fix this real quick?

very nice, i was amazed how Cichlid looking the young of the year are.
i need some of those blackbanded and pygmy sunfish.

Edited by CATfishTONY, 30 January 2010 - 02:03 PM.

Maybe one of the global moderators could fix this real quick?

Fixed. You've got a heck of a collection, Brian! Have you ever tried mud sunnies?

That sacremento perch looks nice, do you have a link to the fish farm that raised it?

Also I like the electric blue lines on the pygmie sunfish.

I had a single mudsunfish once from the NC convention a couple years ago. It did not want to switch over to pellets, it was a lot like any of the Ambloplites sp in that it was rather shy. They also seemed to really like feeder fish over other live foods.

The Sacramento Perch were sent to me in trade for some blackbanded sunfish from the individual who lives in California. He was actually who acquired them from the hatchery in California. So no I do not have a link to the hatchery or even know what it is called.

I shouldn`t have looked at this, now i want to order some more sunnies again!
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Amazing collection Brian, thanks for sharing!