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d20monsteroscar20
05-03-2006, 8:12 PM
Does anyone where have or heard of Bluegill Cichlids? I need some information on these guys, so any help is appreciated.
Chad55
05-03-2006, 8:35 PM
It could be just a regular bluegill. Bluegills are pretty closely related to cichlids. A picture could help though.
Chad
Honda12
05-03-2006, 8:58 PM
Never heard of it before.
d20monsteroscar20
05-03-2006, 11:03 PM
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.lake-okeechobee-fishing.com/bluegill-vanwanger-boy-blue.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.lake-okeechobee-fishing.com/bluegill-fishing-report-6-30-7-1-05.htm&h=384&w=288&sz=58&tbnid=6Qi8Cr25OnLRyM:&tbnh=119&tbnw=89&hl=en&start=5&prev=/images%3Fq%3DBLUEGILL%2BCICHLID%26svnum%3D10%26hl% 3Den%26lr%3D
awdawg
05-05-2006, 12:40 AM
I have a bluegill in my tank, you can catch him on the cam quite often...
Jason_S
05-05-2006, 4:55 AM
moved this to the North American native fish forum for you. the bluegill is not a cichlid, but rather a sunfish. the sunfishes are the closest related family of fish to cichlids but they themselves are not part of the Cichlidae family. :)
evilxyardxgnome
05-05-2006, 9:55 AM
I think he got it confused because of the statement "Bluegill & Mayan Cichlid".
sandtiger
05-06-2006, 12:01 AM
moved this to the North American native fish forum for you. the bluegill is not a cichlid, but rather a sunfish. the sunfishes are the closest related family of fish to cichlids but they themselves are not part of the Cichlidae family. :)
I think it's the wrasses that are the closest related fish to cichlids, could be mistaken though.
fishnthings
05-06-2006, 12:04 AM
the colorful one is a mayan cichlid.. just makin sure your not confuesd;)
d20monsteroscar20
05-07-2006, 6:13 PM
wait....what? Bluegills are not cichlids but sunfishes? so it means that they grow extremely big and are not sutable for an aquarium or they ok?
bpunisher18
05-07-2006, 6:19 PM
They can get to be about 10-12" which is about the size we used to catch for eatting when I was a kid. So I'm not sure they get really huge, but 10 - 12 is a niced size fish
Mr.Geoff
05-07-2006, 10:07 PM
there are green sunfish breeding with convict cichlids someone dumped into the creek by my house. kinda makes me made but kinda excites me as a new fish to catch.
stingray4540
05-08-2006, 1:38 AM
They aren't monsters, but as far as aquarium fish go they get pretty big, I think the absolute biggest would be 14" with about 12" being average. They also have wide bodies. as you can see in the pic on the link you posted.
sandtiger
05-08-2006, 11:52 AM
there are green sunfish breeding with convict cichlids someone dumped into the creek by my house. kinda makes me made but kinda excites me as a new fish to catch.
You must be mistaken, that's impossable.
sandtiger
05-08-2006, 11:53 AM
wait....what? Bluegills are not cichlids but sunfishes? so it means that they grow extremely big and are not sutable for an aquarium or they ok?
Bluegills are fine for an aquarium, they grow to about a foot long. No, they aren't cichlids but the needs and requirements are about the same.
oscar_woman
06-10-2006, 5:21 PM
You can keep them in your aquarium, they prefer a lower temp (72-78) and like lots of plants. When I first got my bluegill I had a hard time looking him up because usually when you type "Sunfish" into a search engine you get info on those huge salt water fish. Try searching him as a "Bluegill Bass" or "Pumpkinseed fish". I have one that lives in a peaceful community tank but I've heard that they're often aggressive, he's held his own in my oscar tank as well. They don't get super big: 6-9 inches.
wild caught
06-10-2006, 6:19 PM
i have some tony ones
wild caught
06-10-2006, 6:21 PM
there are green sunfish breeding with convict cichlids someone dumped into the creek by my house. kinda makes me made but kinda excites me as a new fish to catch.
convicts wouldnt survie our cold winters. lol damn snow
If there is a fish that looks like a cross between a convict and a bluegill they could be one of the tilapia, they are not a crossbreed, they are totally different families.
sandtiger
06-10-2006, 9:09 PM
You can keep them in your aquarium, they prefer a lower temp (72-78) and like lots of plants. When I first got my bluegill I had a hard time looking him up because usually when you type "Sunfish" into a search engine you get info on those huge salt water fish. Try searching him as a "Bluegill Bass" or "Pumpkinseed fish". I have one that lives in a peaceful community tank but I've heard that they're often aggressive, he's held his own in my oscar tank as well. They don't get super big: 6-9 inches.
Just type "Bluegill" into the search engine, or "bluegill sunfish" or even still, Lepomis macrochirus.
If you type in "pumpkinseed" you will get an entirely different though closely related species of sunfish Lepomis gibbosus.
focker
06-11-2006, 10:47 AM
i have a x between a cichlid and a groundhog...:ROFL:
i have a x between a cichlid and a groundhog...:ROFL:
If it see it's shadow it has to wait six more weeks before a water change.
ksiaquatics
06-13-2006, 9:26 AM
Sandtiger is correct here as far as the relatives of sunfish and cichlids. Cichlids are deried from salt water fish and their closest relatives are the wrasses. Sunfishes and basses have a totally different evolutionary path and are not at all related to cichlids, other than being bony fishes. They just happen to have evolved to be morphologically similar and inhabit some of the same habitats. This is similar to the way the bowfin and snakehead evolved.