blue gill or bass

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aquaman5000

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soo okay me and my gf were at the local pond fishing :naughty: and well after the party was over i decided to too walk the edge of the pond with a net and see what i could get well lone and behold got this fry idk what specise it is or anything is in my gfs tetra tank being that my oscar would eat it. its one of to fish i think or 3 small mouth bass , large mouth bass , or a blue gill how do i care for this fish and how do I care foe and of these fish and how do i tell what kida fish it is ?:nilly:
 
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haha...bub... anyways, its kind of hard to tell at a very young age, but around 1 inch, largemouth develop a solid black horizontal stripe and are greenish. they also have more prominent "foreheads" than similar species. smallmouth have red eyes and dont have a horizontal stripe. they can be brown or green and swim faster than most sunfish species. bluegill have a purplish bluish tint to their scales when they swim in light and are very easy to distinguish from bass because they have mouths that are less than 1/4 the size of a bass's mouth(with the acception of green sunfish). also bass have longer body shapes, whereas sunfish have more stout body shapes. The top fin (can't remember the real name for it, is it dorsal?) on bass looks like its separated into a front and a back part, whereas sunfish's top fin looks like its all one piece. hope this helps!
 
That's dorsal fin, bud.
 
bass are going to be more elongated than a lepomis would be as well as the dorsal fin as I<3fish said. the bass will have 2 distinct dorsal fins, one spiny the other with rays, the bluegill or sunfish will have the two dorsal fins connected, the front with spines the back with rays.
 
HiImSean;2333517; said:
bass are going to be more elongated than a lepomis would be as well as the dorsal fin as I<3fish said. the bass will have 2 distinct dorsal fins, one spiny the other with rays, the bluegill or sunfish will have the two dorsal fins connected, the front with spines the back with rays.
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way to tell him the same thing i said with wrong information. the bass does NOT have 2 distinct dorsal fins, it is one and it has a sort of indent in the middle, but it is all one connected fin. also, bluegill dont have two dorsal fins either, they just have one. the dorsal fin is the spine and the rays
 
i correct myself, there is one dorsal fin but its kind of like 2 because theyres a "spiny"dorsal fin and a "soft"dorsal fin. so i was wrong about that, but everything else is accurate.

have you been able to tell if its a bass or bluegill yet?
 
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