Show Your Natives/Native Tanks

[topoftheline77]

I enjoy looking at people's native fish and especially their native tanks so I thought it would be cool to have a thread devoted to it. Also you should post information like size of fish, age of fish, size of tank, decor, ect.

Here's mine
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=32103&size=1 (http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=32103&size=1)
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=31743&size=1 (http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=31743&size=1)

[Chad55]

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=32053&size=1 (http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=32053&size=1)

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=32051&size=1 (http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=32051&size=1)

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=32050&size=1 (http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=32050&size=1)

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=32048&size=1 (http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=32048&size=1)

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=32047&size=1 (http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=32047&size=1)

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=32045&size=1 (http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=32045&size=1)

:) I love showing off my grass pickerel.

Chad

[millcityrider]

hmmm. . . bass or grass . . . the gears are turning. Looks great!

[Oscarboyz]

nice tank!

[ewurm]

My bass tank.

[ewurm]

More, with the driftwood I collected.

[Crazy Taco]

I just caught some Darters I will post pics soon

[matthew112687]

Nice pics guys!

[ewo]

nice i have a 55 with perch int it and a 10 with alot of creek feeders (fish i catch from the creek that reproduce really fast and easy)

[hmt321]

75 gal tank
warmouth
shadow bass
spotted bullhead
assorted minnows

40 gal tank
red spot sunfish
tadpole madtom (if it has not been eaten)

125 gal tank (planted)
7 orange spot sunfish
2 fat sleepers
assorted shiners
speckled madtom


picts

warmouth, approximately one month ago
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c162/hmt321/IMG_1244.jpg

shadowbass, one month ago
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c162/hmt321/IMG_1257.jpg

red spot, a month or so ago
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c162/hmt321/IMG_1226.jpg

orange spots, aprox 6 months ago
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c162/hmt321/IMG_1003.jpg

fat sleeper, aprox 6 months ago
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c162/hmt321/IMG_1004.jpg

orange spots, older
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c162/hmt321/IMG_1010.jpg

fat sleeper, close up
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c162/hmt321/IMG_1017.jpg

full shot of 125 planted
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c162/hmt321/IMG_0610.jpg

old shot of red spotted
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c162/hmt321/IMG_0552.jpg

[Crazy Taco]

wow that is an impressive tank!

[YOOPER]

Here is a few from the old tank(s). Having a hard time locating my full tank shots.

[Chad55]

Looks like that green was quite the beast.

Chad

[topoftheline77]

yooper it looks like you have quite a collection there! Can you list the native fish you have?

Thanks
Mike

[oddball_freak]

nice fish guys

[Derpeder]

Here is my native tank. I have some fish pics but they are at home. I'll post them later.

150 gallon. Two bass and two Sunfish.

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m184/Derpeder/MemorialDay2007078.jpg

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m184/Derpeder/MemorialDay2007085.jpg

[ewurm]

Nice tank Derpeder, do you collect your own driftwood?

[YOOPER]

yooper it looks like you have quite a collection there! Can you list the native fish you have?

Thanks
Mike

Thank you- yes it was nice. As of today I only have the big green, two darters and larger male gill. I'm moving back to Michigan when I graduate, and will have very limited tank space. The bass, seeds, crappie, bullheads and the like (plants) are spread out in a friends seasonal pond and two tanks.

[ewo]

one channel cat, 4 sunfish, 1 oscar

[Chad55]

A couple green sunfish I caught out of my backyard pond. Put them in last year and have seen amazing growth and astounding color obviously.

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=32547&size=1 (http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=32547&size=1)
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=32546&size=1 (http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=32546&size=1)

Chad

[ewurm]

I want to see a Florida "native" tank. Plecos, pbass, cichlids...etc. Wait, I'll just go to the Photo Lounge!:ROFL:

[YOOPER]

Very nice Chad!

[Chad55]

Very nice Chad!

Thank you very much sir.

Chad

[Bigairmxman]

native fish and plants..rock bass, blue gill, green sunfish

[MicropterusSalmoides]

you should take a picture at night time, with no flash, no lights on except the tank light. all i can see is a rock some wood and some plants. what size tank?

[Derpeder]

Nice tank Derpeder, do you collect your own driftwood?

Thanks wurm. Yeah I do. The piece on the left that was originally in my 95 gallon. (see below for that pic) I pulled that off a tree that had fallen into the lake I got the Sunfish in.

and the larger piece on the right of the tank I got from my grandpa's cabin at the beach.



Here is the 95 gallon with the first piece. This tank has since been torn down and turned into my 150 gallon.
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m184/Derpeder/basstanksresized-1.jpg

[Derpeder]

A couple green sunfish I caught out of my backyard pond. Put them in last year and have seen amazing growth and astounding color obviously.

Chad

:headbang2 Beautiful fish!!! I want a few of those in my tank.

[green_fox]

all i got is 3 prickly sculpin and thats it (sorry only one pic)

[Derpeder]

Here is a cool pic of my LMB. Quality is not the best but its cool! :headbang2

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m184/Derpeder/BasswithFrog8.jpg

[ewurm]

Awesome bass!

[rob0521]

I want to see a Florida "native" tank. Plecos, pbass, cichlids...etc. Wait, I'll just go to the Photo Lounge!:ROFL:

im setting one up like that hopefully this summer, all caught in my backyard:)

[ShadowBass]

These are the newest pics I have (click for bigger).

Longear sunfish
http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/8571/longearei1.th.jpg (http://img299.imageshack.us/my.php?image=longearei1.jpg)

Checkered madtom
http://img353.imageshack.us/img353/7780/madtompicds1.th.jpg (http://img353.imageshack.us/my.php?image=madtompicds1.jpg)

I can't ever get a good pic of the madtom. He sits in his little pot waiting for us to feed him and rarely comes out.

[darthodo]

After doing somelooking, and because of some good connections, I think I can get hooked up (literally) with some nice, and somewhat uncommon, native fish. I do have some concerns about two species that I can get fairly easily though.

The redfin pike is everywhere down here in south GA and are good-looking stock. My question is, is it near impossible to get them to take prepared food? I assume if you trap some real small ones it is easier to get them on prepared food than larger ones you catch on hook and line. Will redfin pike take mealworms, crickets, or earthworms?

My next question concerns the ever present yellow perch. Will these fish do well in a small group and do wild-caught fish take to prepared foods easily?

[tknjk]

Here is a cool pic of my LMB. Quality is not the best but its cool! :headbang2

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m184/Derpeder/BasswithFrog8.jpg

Brings new meaning to the phrase "I'v got a frog in my throat."

[dominicolas]

This is my longear when I first got him. I'm trying to fatten him up but I think he's really pretty (In a strait type of way). Also a shiner that I caught, didn't keep him but I should have. I just let the catfish go into my pond yesterday and replaced him with a yellow cat. I got him at 3 inches and I said once he hit 7 I would let him go. Gave you a little before and after too, sorry ther're not at the same angle The yellow cat looks awsome and is about 3 inches, same deal, Ill try and put up some pictures of her to.

[dominicolas]

hers the yellow cat

[Nightwing]

About a quarter of my tank:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v215/Nightwing1/septtripanaquarium042b.jpg

one of 4 just brilliant colored male Rainbow darters(hangin' with one of his girlfriends):
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v215/Nightwing1/septtripanaquarium047g.jpg

another view:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v215/Nightwing1/septtripanaquarium039b.jpg

and..another:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v215/Nightwing1/septtripanaquarium050b.jpg

[dogfish]

some crappy baby green sunfish pics

[Rick Blaine]

About a quarter of my tank:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v215/Nightwing1/septtripanaquarium042b.jpg

one of 4 just brilliant colored male Rainbow darters(hangin' with one of his girlfriends):
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v215/Nightwing1/septtripanaquarium047g.jpg

another view:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v215/Nightwing1/septtripanaquarium039b.jpg

and..another:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v215/Nightwing1/septtripanaquarium050b.jpg


Those are beautiful darters! I have a couple that I found at a LFS in the feeder tank (they let me have them for free, when I pointed out that they were natives, and I didn't object). They are some of the most interesting natives to observe.

[fishlvr]

Let's see some natives! Here are some of mine:

[ewurm]

I made this thread a sticky. Feel free to post native pics here or in the photo lounge.

[aggressor09]

fat sleeper is a jade goby

[rodgerpidactor]

What size tank is that ewurm? Looking good.

[fishlvr]

hers the yellow cat

That's a flathead catfish. Not a yellow cat, which is, in most cases, the yellow bullhead. Forgive me if yellow cat is another name for flatheads, but I thought you might need to know you have a catfish that could get up to 6', opposed to a yellow bullhead at 18".:)

[dominicolas]

Thanks for the info but by "yellow cat" I did mean flathead and I do know it will get big. It's going to be released after a while, that's what I do with the cats. Thanks anyway though, good lookin' out.

[88GT]

Heres mine. think Im over populated? LOL
they are still young....7" or so. 3 bass and a green sunfish. (3 cats are hiding)

[scottgeeze]

Is that sand or ick on that pike in the first post? nice fish and tanks though.

[teleost]

Looks like the sand (look below the pickerel) after a little pickerel "freak-out".

[me_wee_todded]

Nice fish dominicolas.
BTW what part of texas are you in?

[fishlvr]

Thanks for the info but by "yellow cat" I did mean flathead and I do know it will get big. It's going to be released after a while, that's what I do with the cats. Thanks anyway though, good lookin' out.

Well, it's nice to know your thinking ahead. Most people don't. Where are you releasing it? Private pond?

[fishlvr]

Heres mine. think Im over populated? LOL
they are still young....7" or so. 3 bass and a green sunfish. (3 cats are hiding)

Your "green sunfish" is a bluegill, if it is the fish in the last pic with the bass.

[dominicolas]

Me_We I'm in AustinFishlvr Yeah I think I will stick it in a freind of mines pond but I don't think it would be a problem if I put it into the wild. It came from the wild and was only kept with other natives, also I feed it only live native food like shiners and worms.

[fishlvr]

Here are some more of my pics. The longear usually has more red, but he just got moved to a new tank, so he's kinda flushed out. And yes, I know the Asian clam is not native. I just like the pic.:)

[teleost]

Does your state allow you to actually take mussels from the wild????

[fishlvr]

Yes if they aren't protected.

[Roberto C. Wells]

Some darters i collected the other day.
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f194/RobertColbyWells/IMG_4934.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f194/RobertColbyWells/IMG_4913.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f194/RobertColbyWells/IMG_4910.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f194/RobertColbyWells/IMG_4907.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f194/RobertColbyWells/IMG_4906.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f194/RobertColbyWells/IMG_4887.jpg

[fishlvr]

I like the bandeds and rainbows. What's the temp? I noticed your female cherry barb, and I know those need higher temps, like 75-78F. Darters need temps below 72F for their longterm health and survival.

BTW, nice pics!

[Roberto C. Wells]

The temp is at 75. I have collected darters from the same stream during the summer while the water was in the 80's so i think 75 should be fine, don't you?

The rainbow is a orangethroat Etheostoma spectabile it is are hard to tell Them apart If there is red in the anal fin then they are rainbows, if the anal fin is solid blue then they are orange throats. That is about the only way to tell the difference and neither picture shows the whole anal fin.

[fishlvr]

The temp is at 75. I have collected darters from the same stream during the summer while the water was in the 80's so i think 75 should be fine, don't you?

The rainbow is a orangethroat Etheostoma spectabile it is are hard to tell Them apart If there is red in the anal fin then they are rainbows, if the anal fin is solid blue then they are orange throats. That is about the only way to tell the difference and neither picture shows the whole anal fin.

Rainbow is my default if the anal fin isn't visible. :D I'm getting some rainbows soon.

Lower temps are better for their longterm health. I didn't say they couldn't tolerate higher temps. High temps are not good for them, and will make them sick if they're kept that way too long. Besides, they're much more colorful in colder water.

[Roberto C. Wells]

Thanks for the info and good luck with the Rainbows.
:)

[fishlvr]

Thanks. BTW, that's a nice longear sunfish you have for your avatar.

[ColdwaterCreekGuide]

all i got is 3 prickly sculpin and thats it (sorry only one pic)
You need a wallet chain!

[ColdwaterCreekGuide]

This catfish came from the creek behind my house. Its a springfed creek in Anniston Alabama. I'm not sure what kind of catfish it is.http://i14.tinypic.com/8f1r2vo.jpg
Another shot: http://i7.tinypic.com/87icc4y.jpg

My tank is 55 gallon, and is all native species except for 5 feeder goldfish that got too big to eat. I keep a female Eastern River Cooter, one 4.5 inch LMB, the unidentified catfish, and several small crawfish.

Any help on the catfish ID would be greatly appreciated.. I think maybe a madtom of some sort because it was like an inch and a half long when caught back in the summertime, and now he's like 5 inches.. Thanks for the awesome native posts and all your help!
Jon

[ColdwaterCreekGuide]

Here's my bass and an overall shot of the tank. http://i14.tinypic.com/8e5vpsp.jpg
http://i10.tinypic.com/6nrogsn.jpg

[ColdwaterCreekGuide]

lets see some more natural aquascaping and maybe some darters!

[Shadow Chaos]

pretty cool!
I think I am inspired to make my own native tank...but it will be hard for me...

[Justin94565]

Interesting Nice fish people.

[4wheelvfr]

Here's a couple shots of my sunnies in their 265 that they share with a bunch of mixed tropicals.
Two of my longears and a redspotted. The pics are kinda crappy, but they don't like to hold still.
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[ColdwaterCreekGuide]

nice longears

[hydroponic]

170873

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[AR_Clint]

Here's an action shot of my LMB and one of my Green Sunfish just chilling on the bottom. Along with the pleco, they're the lone habitants of our 125. We plan on going fishing this weekend, so maybe they'll get a few friends.

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a268/AR_Clint/CIMG1394.jpg



http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a268/AR_Clint/CIMG1391.jpg

[blurock]

What temp do you guys keep your LMB's at? I was thinking about starting a native tank. Anyone keep them with oscars? I JUST bought a new tank so I didn't have to borrow my friends anymore, and it would be great to not have to get another one... yet

[AR_Clint]

I keep mine at around 80. The ponds I catch mine from get anywhere from 92 in the summer to 50's in the winter. They are pretty hardy fish.

[Arial_Sky]

Here is a few from the old tank(s). Having a hard time locating my full tank shots.
The one with the blue streaks on his face and a pretty big mouth is a green eared sunfish right? I have one of those and was wondering if for sure that is what it is.

[Arial_Sky]

These are the newest pics I have (click for bigger).

Longear sunfish
http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/8571/longearei1.th.jpg (http://img299.imageshack.us/my.php?image=longearei1.jpg)

Checkered madtom
http://img353.imageshack.us/img353/7780/madtompicds1.th.jpg (http://img353.imageshack.us/my.php?image=madtompicds1.jpg)

I can't ever get a good pic of the madtom. He sits in his little pot waiting for us to feed him and rarely comes out.
Incredible Sunfish!!!

[Arial_Sky]

This catfish came from the creek behind my house. Its a springfed creek in Anniston Alabama. I'm not sure what kind of catfish it is.http://i14.tinypic.com/8f1r2vo.jpg
Another shot: http://i7.tinypic.com/87icc4y.jpg

My tank is 55 gallon, and is all native species except for 5 feeder goldfish that got too big to eat. I keep a female Eastern River Cooter, one 4.5 inch LMB, the unidentified catfish, and several small crawfish.

Any help on the catfish ID would be greatly appreciated.. I think maybe a madtom of some sort because it was like an inch and a half long when caught back in the summertime, and now he's like 5 inches.. Thanks for the awesome native posts and all your help!
Jon
That looks like a bullhead to me.

[Arial_Sky]

I have two Tigers, A Green Sunfish and about a dozen Perch. Here are a few pics of my Tigers.

[AR_Clint]

I have two Tigers, A Green Sunfish and about a dozen Perch. Here are a few pics of my Tigers.

How do you keep your Muskies from eating your other inhabitants?

[rjmtx]

ColdwaterCreekGuide, that's a yellow bullhead. You can tell by the yellow/white chin barbels.

[delizz]

I had a Bass up until a few months ago when i fed him what i thought was a dying cory cat, a few days later the bass died and i didnt know why. Then i rrealized that corys have a kinda spike on there dorsal fin, and im guessing it was stuck in the bass as he tried to swallow it.

Moral of the story dont feed pet fish to pet fish!

[catfishlover106]

man thats a nice tiger muskie! =] where'd you get it? I was wanting one of those a while ago but kinda well almost gave up looking for one...thats young and all that....Or does anyone know where you can get them? maybe online or something?

[Opiate]

good lookin fish ppls!!

[le patron]

hey where'd you get the grass pickerel, i was looking to get one in a few months. they are really cool

[le patron]

88GT what size tank is that? it looks like the right size that i need

[ilikewomen]

i got a little baby crappie i caught,lol like 1 inch

[hotsauce]

100gal have yet to get plants in tank

[Snakehead23]

nice look at my signerature

[hotsauce]

its coming together. camera sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!! waiting for new one!:headbang2the bluegill are feeders!:naughty:

[le patron]

I had a Bass up until a few months ago when i fed him what i thought was a dying cory cat, a few days later the bass died and i didnt know why. Then i rrealized that corys have a kinda spike on there dorsal fin, and im guessing it was stuck in the bass as he tried to swallow it.

Moral of the story dont feed pet fish to pet fish!
LOL

[johnson5585]

Has anyone ever kept a rainbow trout? Any luck with it?

[le patron]

i havent ever kept one, but i know that trout in general are usually sensitive to water quality and parameters,etc. i heard that it is also pretty hard to get them off of live food.

[ceeej31]

i havent ever kept one, but i know that trout in general are usually sensitive to water quality and parameters,etc. i heard that it is also pretty hard to get them off of live food.
:grinno::grinno::grinno: trout arent that hard at all to get off live

[DCBuckeyeguy77]

You won't be able to keep a trout healthy unless you have a huge tank, high flow, and a chiller. And that would get pretty expensive... but maybe someone has done it :)

[BLACK ICE]

Rainbow trout are very agressive I would recomend a speicies only and very large tank if you get them young enuf they are very easy to keep. I live in wisconsin so I did not need a chiller and they did fine in about 75 degree water.

[mcredimus]

here is my chatahoochee river tank. everything in the tank came out of the river. graval, driftwood, plants,darter, spotted gars, spotted bass, shiners, spotted topminows. (exept for the feeder guppies)

[fishkeeper1]

geeeez! What size tank is that? And its lookin really nice:)

[fishkeeper1]

oooo yea, that bass is gonna start if he hasent already eating all those minnows

[mcredimus]

40 breeder

[mcredimus]

as soon as they hit the water.

[so cal nick]

what r native tanks

[so cal nick]

r they from other countries r what

[so cal nick]

those tanks r tight but i dont know what native tanks mean

[Mudfrog]

those tanks r tight but i dont know what native tanks mean

Native is used to describe fish that live in your country and have not been introduced, in this case we are referring to the US.

[Mudfrog]

Well I don't have any complete tank shots as I'm still working on the 120 I plan on putting these guys in. I also plan on grabbing a pickerel or two for the setup as well. Anyway here are the pics..

http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc254/muds_fish/Native%20Fish/Green-Sunfish.jpg

http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc254/muds_fish/Native%20Fish/RockBass1.jpg

http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc254/muds_fish/Native%20Fish/Creek-Chub-1.jpg

http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc254/muds_fish/Native%20Fish/Natives1.jpg

http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc254/muds_fish/Native%20Fish/Green-Sunfish-2.jpg

http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc254/muds_fish/Native%20Fish/Green-Sunfish-One.jpg

http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc254/muds_fish/Native%20Fish/Rock-Bass-1.jpg

http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc254/muds_fish/Native%20Fish/Rock-Bass-2.jpg

http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc254/muds_fish/Native%20Fish/little-guys1.jpg

[bluerat313]

Nice Tanks

[flemming]

nice american fish everyone,soon there will come some pics of dutch fish how are native here.

[chefjamesscott]

well thats it i been thinking for some time of gettin me some fish from the lake an streams around regina an this has me convinced

so i see under my name darter now thats funny

[warmouth]

I love that warmouth, I am new to the forum and have been unsuccessfully trying to catch one for my 46 gallon tank which currently has a green sunfish in it.

[nickridiculous]

Does anyone keep native (cool water) marine fish? I live on the pacific coast and I have access to lots of tide pools that could yield some interesting fish. I guess the temps range from 70 or 80F down to about 45F. Ideas?

[HPIZZLE]

Thanks wurm. Yeah I do. The piece on the left that was originally in my 95 gallon. (see below for that pic) I pulled that off a tree that had fallen into the lake I got the Sunfish in.

and the larger piece on the right of the tank I got from my grandpa's cabin at the beach.



Here is the 95 gallon with the first piece. This tank has since been torn down and turned into my 150 gallon.
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m184/Derpeder/basstanksresized-1.jpg
thats a huge firemouth

[marshallfishies]

What temp do you guys keep your LMB's at? I was thinking about starting a native tank. Anyone keep them with oscars? I JUST bought a new tank so I didn't have to borrow my friends anymore, and it would be great to not have to get another one... yet


i keep my lmb with oscars and he is part of the group. he begs for cihlid pellets just like them.

[jp80911]

Here's my little native tank, containts an unknown cat and a LMB.
You can't see the cat very wel cuz it's so small and hiding.

[le patron]

from the front it looks like it could be a horned pout, or brown bullhead catfish

[Didgeridoo]

Man I wish we had cool sunfish up here in Manitoba, Canada. We've got Pumpkinseeds and Bluegill. They're not bad but I'd love to get a few Orange spots or Longears again. =S

The only natives I have currently are six Tadpole Madtom in heavily planted tanks.

Here's a few older pic of some natives I've had.
Pumpkinseed
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/Didgeridoo/Fish157.jpg
Black Crappie
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/Didgeridoo/Fish169.jpg
Longear
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/Didgeridoo/Nicksfish051.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/Didgeridoo/Feb12-07031.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/Didgeridoo/Feb12-07021.jpg
Rock Bass
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/Didgeridoo/Feb12-07026.jpg
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[Gator]

Here is my 600G 96"x48"x30" I'm still working on more plants. ATM there are 2 Spotted gar, 1 Longnose Gar, 3 Yellow Perch, 1 Pumpkinseed Sunfish. Oh and 1 non native that I missed when I pulled the former inhabitants out a Jurupari.

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j70/CHBGator/P1060591.jpg

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j70/CHBGator/P1060600.jpg

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j70/CHBGator/P1060599.jpg

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j70/CHBGator/P1060604.jpg

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j70/CHBGator/P1060598.jpg

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j70/CHBGator/P1060596.jpg

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thats a huge firemouth


thats a fire mouth.....I thought that was a bass

[t Hizzle]

look in the bottom right corner theres a large fire mouth kickin it

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LOL oh hell, i didnt even notice him

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Well, heres my native tank

A few sunfish,..don't know what kind they are though


http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q285/razzlexrabbit/DSCN0854.jpg
http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q285/razzlexrabbit/DSCN0855.jpg
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http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q285/razzlexrabbit/DSCN0829.jpg

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The last pic was a older picture
before I switched the gravel

[Venom SS]

Man I love native tanks, awesome setups guys.

[SebSkie]

Hello all,

I just started to get back into aquariums after not having one for over 10yrs. This is my first try with live plants so we will see how it goes. I am a huge fisherman and love fishing the local rivers so I decided to make a local wild fish tank..I have had it up for about a week so far and everything is working ok.

It is a 55 gallon tank, Fluval 304 canister, aquaclear hang on filter, Halmiton metal halide light with florecent bulbs. I probably need a sump from what I have read on this board.

Right now I have 2 pumkinseed, 3 crayfish, 3 chubs. I will probably add a yellow perch if I can get one.

Here are some pictures...

http://www.mi50.com/images/tank_2.JPG
http://www.mi50.com/images/tank_3.JPGhttp://www.mi50.com/images/tank_1.JPG

[le patron]

Hello all,

I just started to get back into aquariums after not having one for over 10yrs. This is my first try with live plants so we will see how it goes. I am a huge fisherman and love fishing the local rivers so I decided to make a local wild fish tank..I have had it up for about a week so far and everything is working ok.

It is a 55 gallon tank, Fluval 304 canister, aquaclear hang on filter, Halmiton metal halide light with florecent bulbs. I probably need a sump from what I have read on this board.

Right now I have 2 pumkinseed, 3 crayfish, 3 chubs. I will probably add a yellow perch if I can get one.

Here are some pictures...

http://www.mi50.com/images/tank_2.JPG
http://www.mi50.com/images/tank_3.JPGhttp://www.mi50.com/images/tank_1.JPG
sorry, that isnt a pumpkinseed, its a green sunfish. lucky. ive been trying to get one for SO long. keep up the good work and be careful, the green sunfish might eat the crayfish some day.

[SebSkie]

Yep, you are correct, that is a green sunfish. I actually have two I caught at a local pond. I always thought they were pumpkinseeds...guess I learned something today.

Thanks for the correction.

Thanks,
Sebastian

[le patron]

np man

[blurock]

some pics of my baby pumpkinseed. I'm guessing its 1" long. maybe a tad bigger now.

[haynchinook334]

my 9 1/2'' LMB

[blurock]

My 8-9" Yellow Perch under glo lights

[MultispeciesTamer]

hers the yellow cat

Wow buddy that isnt a yellow catfish thats a baby flathead catfish (Pylodictus olivaris) They get about as big as blue cats to, so be for warned

[MultispeciesTamer]

281362
Heres my natives when they were young sorry glass and lights were dirty

[seds]

http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee86/88seds88/P1020114.jpg
Check out this pip-squeak fish: a 2 inch culia inconstins: the brook stickleback. Note the lack of pelvic fins.

Note how inconstant they are. Mine didn't have pelvic spines, and it's head is really narrow like a pike or something. Sometimes they have a nice jaguar like pattern of light green on a shiney greenish dorsal surface with a redish tint to the belly. Some have 6 spines, some have 4... the ones I found have 5 spines along their back.
According to a book of mine, they don't have pelvic spines after enough natural selection, if there aren't very many predators. Find the snail in the picture below.
http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee86/88seds88/P1020107.jpg


http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee86/88seds88/P1020111.jpg
Eh, fathead juvenile at 1.5 inches, Silver and brown, with a dark line going along. I think they are the cutest. Not the best fathead picture around. I couldn't seem to keep these fatheads alive for long... because they were wild caught...juvenile... and possibly being terrorized by tankmates.

[Jessica Dring]

Awesome tanks everyone!

[amazonfishman]

Lots of pics of old natives I've kept. Green Sunfish, Longear Sunfish, Orange Spotted Sunfish, Carp, Channel Catfish, Mud Cats, Gar, etc. ~Trent

[seds]

Amazonfishman, your fish are the cutest!

I like 7 and 9 the most. What are those green fish above the carp?

[Al'Thor]

I just recently upgraded my 55gal to a 75gal for my natives. It's still a new tank and there are some bubbles present, but I just wanted to show them off.

First, a tank shot
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h186/MachinShin_photos/Fish/IMG_0957.jpg

One of the Dollars
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h186/MachinShin_photos/Fish/IMG_0931.jpg

Green/Pumpkinseeds from the lake I grew up on
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h186/MachinShin_photos/Fish/IMG_0933.jpg

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h186/MachinShin_photos/Fish/IMG_0967.jpg

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h186/MachinShin_photos/Fish/IMG_0950-1.jpg

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h186/MachinShin_photos/Fish/IMG_0929.jpg

[jim]

Outstanding... great set up beautiul healthy fish. You wouldnt know where i could get any orange spots by any chance?? Email. Jimv8673@aol.com

[blurock]

Yellow Perch and Albino Channel

[jim]

This a fabulous looking tank. How do you get the drift wood to stay down??

[TheKeyToArson]

Amazonfishman, your fish are the cutest!

I like 7 and 9 the most. What are those green fish above the carp?


Juvi Crappie... hard to tell if they are white or black crappie

[pm0084]

This our families pet LMB....the girls evan drew up a sign that hangs on the bottom of the stand that says Mr. Bass. He is about 12" long right now and is housed in a 75G aquarium, along with a few snails and a pleco.
He eats about 4-6 goldfish a day or so, or a few worms, crickets, frogs, minnows, ect.
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[PetZoneSanDiego]

Here are a couple of the flounders that we had here @ our store, enjoy folks :)
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=1136&pictureid=11217
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=1136&pictureid=11216

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[chloe]

everyones tanks looking great as are the fish!

[Gator]

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j70/CHBGator/P1080429.jpg

Plants still have a way to go to fill in but its getting there!

[lunk71]

some of my old natives .. smallie,LM, GSF..

http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii140/lunk71/20080706_89.jpg


http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii140/lunk71/sunfish1paint.jpg

[le patron]

some of my old natives .. smallie,LM, GSF..

how big was that smallie? what did you do end up doing with em anyways?

[Tropicalfishking]

I'm in seattle. Anybody know what I could get native wise for FW?? There is Green lake pretty close to my house.
Drop me a email wil98844@gmail.com

[Bluecatmatt32]

where can you get flatheads or as i call them shovelheads

[lunk71]

how big was that smallie? what did you do end up doing with em anyways?


if im remembering correctly i think he was around 12- 14" (smallie)... he went to a buddy's pond . last he measured was 16 1/2 " i believe .

[Bassinkorea]

All great looking tanks AND fish everyone......here's my 140 gal tank with my feeder tank on the right :)

http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t74/bassinkorea/Tank/DSC02935.jpg

http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t74/bassinkorea/Tank/DSC03564.jpg

http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t74/bassinkorea/Tank/DSC02856.jpg

[Delhezi B]

Here are mine

bullhead
smb
rock bass

(NOTE smb and rock bass are in temp holding tank)

[carolinyens]

Heres some pics of my sunfish
http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp222/carolinyens/IMG_0814.jpg
http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp222/carolinyens/IMG_0792.jpg
This last one Im not quite sure about. Is it just a green bluegill, Ive seen them in all kinds of colors, or is it a green sunfish or a warmouth. Its only about an 1'' or so. So I figure he's still a juvenile and I cant find any juvenile pics of sunfish.
http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp222/carolinyens/IMG_0834.jpg

[LobstersGoPeenchPeench]

no walleye srsly? one of my lfs had one and that thing looked mean with fangs to match

[Youngbuck5009]

This catfish came from the creek behind my house. Its a springfed creek in Anniston Alabama. I'm not sure what kind of catfish it is.http://i14.tinypic.com/8f1r2vo.jpg
Another shot: http://i7.tinypic.com/87icc4y.jpg

My tank is 55 gallon, and is all native species except for 5 feeder goldfish that got too big to eat. I keep a female Eastern River Cooter, one 4.5 inch LMB, the unidentified catfish, and several small crawfish.

Any help on the catfish ID would be greatly appreciated.. I think maybe a madtom of some sort because it was like an inch and a half long when caught back in the summertime, and now he's like 5 inches.. Thanks for the awesome native posts and all your help!
Jon

Brown Bullhead Catfish

[bumpylemon]

wow thats gonna be 1 overstocked 55 gallon

[MultispeciesTamer]

no walleye srsly? one of my lfs had one and that thing looked mean with fangs to match
Well i just learned first hand walleye dont make good tank fish, as mine passed away after having it a few weeks, they do better outside in my kiddie pool.

[farawayinn]

imo yellow bullhead

[PE4COCKB4SS4LYF]

im with him ^
I would say yellow bullhead, the barbells on the lower jaws are white.

[The 9th Legend]

Wow nice tanks everybody. I never knew you could keep these fish in a home aquarium.

[muskkeeper]

All great looking tanks AND fish everyone......here's my 140 gal tank with my feeder tank on the right :)

http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t74/bassinkorea/Tank/DSC02935.jpg

http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t74/bassinkorea/Tank/DSC03564.jpg

http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t74/bassinkorea/Tank/DSC02856.jpg


Nice tank and Bass! Creatine too.!:headbang2

[iloveoscars702]

^ lol nice tank and nice place to store your creatine haha.

[Great Basin Benji]

Brown Bullhead Catfish


YELLOW Bulhead. Brown Bullhead don't have the white chin barbarels like the Yellow Bullhead does. Albeit a Brown looking bullhead in terms of color, the white chin whiskers are a dead give away:YELLOW BULLHEAD.

[halfnelson]

here is my chatahoochee river tank. everything in the tank came out of the river. graval, driftwood, plants,darter, spotted gars, spotted bass, shiners, spotted topminows. (exept for the feeder guppies)
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=216403&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1213919804

Very nice ... one of the better biotope tanks I've seen here.

[Itsadeepbluesea]

wow nice tanks I'll have to post mine when I finish getting it set up.

[dawsonkid]

ColdwaterCreekGuide. your cat fish looks like a "blue cat". ive caught some before.