Why haven't Coldwater species have been popularized yet?
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When I get home I'll get a pic of my male pumpkinseed, he's full color full time. Personally I prefer a natural pond, stream or lake-scape in my tanks for the natives I can catch around my home or at the very least in the neighboring states, for multiple reasons. As mentioned, free is always good and I can catch 95% of my stock a mile up the road from me, 3% comes from places within driving distance, and the other 2% are my African/Asian themed tank. I like being able to closely observe the fish found locally, and learn more about what goes on in the ponds and lakes around me, as opposed to what happens in the waterways of Africa or south America...that and I don't want to pay for a plane ticket to a place that if I jump in I'm not longer top of the food chain by a long shot. I feel when the color talk gets thrown around people are treating their fish more like exciting, shiny pieces of décor rather than a pet, but that's a different talk entirely. To each their own, I'd rather watch a tank full of yellow perch and black crappie hunt down shiners and minnows.
I dont doubt that these fish can and do look great. But cant knock cichlids and other tropical fish kust because they arent "native"
Isnt that the stereotype that the native keepers say.keep people away from natives ?
Looking forward to see the pumpkinseed. ..cool fish
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Isnt that the stereotype that the native keepers say.keep people away from natives ?
Looking forward to see the pumpkinseed. ..cool fish
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If color is your forte, then south America wins every category hands down. I just despise cichlids haha and I don't have a heated Jacuzzi-style lake to keep an rtc.
Oh I don't care what people keep haha, you want a tank full of angry ass little African cichlids cause they're bright and shiny, do it up. You want a tank with a big ol' flowerhorn by itself in a tank sportin' that big doppy looking forehead, do it up haha, Or if you want a tank full of flat brown, colorless bullhead catfish, go for that too! I would own 3 cichlids ever if I had the tank space-jags, dovii or Oscars, but if other people get enjoyment out of all those other species out there, then that's what this hobby is about, enjoyment.
Spotted gar is on a colder water site and i saw plenty of them here 
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Spotted gar is on a colder water site and i saw plenty of them here
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I'd love to have a long nose gar, haven't seen any in the wild around here for a long time.
This, so much this. I love the breeding behavior of cichlids but I refuse to keep them in a tank with anything but other cichlids because they're jagoffs, and a tank without natives or catfish is a waste of a tank to me.
Dude, lower allegheny river close to pittsburgh a FULL of them. People catch tons of them in shiners and cutbait where my local creek flows into the river. Most are already to large to introduce to a tank, though.
Woah, woah, woah, you have a bullhead too bro, don't go insulting them, lol. My yellow bullhead is by far my favorite fish out of all 80ish of them.
