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Got my stand about done and four buddies came over to help me move the tank. I still need to make the wood paneling to cover the stand and a lightning canopy. Filter is a 75g sump. I'm not sure how many Sunfish I will end up with in this set up but I'd like a nice variety.
 
I've got greens, bluegill, longear, warmouth, redbreast, redear, Rio Grande Cichlids, black/white crappie, pumpkinseeds, and hybrids near me. I'm in Texas and also have all the bass species but I'm not planning on any bass.
 
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I've got greens, bluegill, longear, warmouth, redbreast, redear, Rio Grande Cichlids, black/white crappie, pumpkinseeds, and hybrids near me. I'm in Texas and also have all the bass species but I'm not planning on any bass.
I'd avoid bass too haha. But I would do greens bluegill black and white crappie pumpkinseeds and hybrids! What hybrids are there
 
Green sunfish seem to vary a lot in aggression. Mine would chase the warmouth I had, but only nudge the black crappie every so often. Greens are great sunfish, but be careful they can be enough to make your aquarium have only one fish. The crappie will be the most peaceful on that list while

your list is greens, bluegill, longear, warmouth, redbreast, redear, Rio Grande Cichlids, black/white crappie, pumpkinseeds, and hybrids.

I would say that the warmouth and crappie are the least aggressive, redear, longear, and maybe pumpkinseeds will be medium on aggression, but can still vary. The bluegills and greens will vary depending on the subspecies and individual. I have 3 coppernose and I would say they are generally beaceful except when the dominate bluegill decides he wants to breed... The readbrest sunfish will kill or be killed. They are super aggressive if they are dominate and will be super sensitive and submissive if it isn't dominate. I would suggest adding the more aggressive fish later so the peaceful species adapt first.

Crappie can be hard to get off live and can be almost impossible to get onto dry foods. I would say this is the case more often with wild sunfish. Get all your sunfish as young as possible. The adults will usually stick to what they know and don't like to change that.

The greens, bluegill, warmouth, , redear, Rio Grande Cichlids, black/white crappie, pumpkinseeds will like a pond setup while redbreast and , longear like more of a river setup with redbreast preferring it the most.

greens and warmouth have large mouths and will eat anything that can fit in there.

When creating the aquarium have 6+ sunfish and as much cover as possible. this will get rid of most aggression. With 3 sunfish, the dominate will give each 50% of his agression. when you have 6, the dominate will give about 20% agression to each...
 
sounds like a sweet project! I have a 310 sunfish tank set up currently. only have a pumpkinseed, 2 black crappie and a channel cat and bull cat in there right now, have 5 more pumpkinseeds and a bass growing out to a size they wont be food or punching bags haha.
 
Nice! What are the dimensions on that bad boy?
 
Wow thats going to look great. Im also wondering on dimensions.
 
sounds like a sweet project! I have a 310 sunfish tank set up currently. only have a pumpkinseed, 2 black crappie and a channel cat and bull cat in there right now, have 5 more pumpkinseeds and a bass growing out to a size they wont be food or punching bags haha.

Need a few Greens in there too man, females are evil and males are satan spawn lol.
 
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