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You might consider some smaller type of dither fish. I currently have some golden shiners and I really enjoy them a lot more then I thought I would. They are large enough the sunfish wouldn't be able to eat them.

Bowfin will grow to large especially if it's a female, it'd have to be a species only tank. And from reading your comments that's not what you're looking for. Also bowfin love to eat sunfish. So cross it off the list.

Mine did not make it either. After adding the epsom salt it continued to get worse and worse. Didn't make it beyond 2 days.

Update, now laying flat on bottom of aquarium still breathing and alert. Epsom salt added. No food added. Not looking good. Meds should be here tomorrow if it survives the night.

I did not, with nitrite being zero had no reason to. I would assume if it was a chemical imbalance both fish would have been affected. My first and most logical thought is that during the day the fish got spooked and darted either into the glass, the canopy or the heater with a force enough to...

Also just noticed my auto correct changed swim bladder to swim ladder XD

Oh I plan to get them off feeder rosey reds when I move them out of this grow out tank. They are just now getting a decent enough size that I can feel comfortable not feeding them for prolonged periods to get them to take prepared foods such as frozen prawn pieces, not gonna do pellets most...

I've had my Kels for about 7 months now and today when I went to feed I noticed one of the two bass was having issues swimming. He still managed to get two feeders luckily. But when I went to shut off the light I noticed he had all kinds of trouble orienting himself. I did a water change check...

They are doing good, pretty slow growing from what I was expecting. My first ever pbass. Still filling them out to wing them onto other foods.

I have two of the kels as well. Ordered when he first got them in

You have Northern Sunfish then. Lepomis peltastes. They were once considered a subspecies of the longear, but have since been reclassified as a separate species. Did yours come out of the St. Joseph as mine did?

It would take years of genetic alteration to grow a bluegill 19", if even possible at all. Youd probably have to triploid them to achieve that size. I have seen some monster gills in public aquariums and store aquariums past 12". But I have never seen one or heard of one that size out of public...

If you added a new filter possibly an ammonia spike.

Bluegill x Pumpkin seed, and Pumpkin seed

There are many species and variants of chironomids true with different biological niches. I bet a trout can't tell the difference though.

That's actually false. Bloodworms are midge fly larva aka chironomids. Which are a heavily used food source for many fish across the entire US. A staple diet item in trophy rainbow trout lakes on the west coast for a prime example.

Currently identified bass species. List does not contain strains, unique morphology or subspecies. Micropterus genus "black bass": Salmoides "largemouth" Dolomieui "smallmouth" Punctulatus "spotted" Cataractae "shoal" Coosae "redeye" Notius "suwannee" Treculii "guadalupe" Cahabae "cahaba"...

That took some time to type out on a phone lol. I'll get around to the "black bass" eventually. They are a much more complex genus with newly identified species in the past few years.

Complete list of current identified pure sunfish species, excluding Micropterus genus. Does not include strains or genetic morphology or subspecies. Lepomis genus "sunfish": Macrochirus "bluegill" Gibbosus "pumpkinseed" Microlophus "redear" Cyanellus "green sunfish" Auritus "redbreasted"...

Pretty incomplete list