Bluegill Hybrid meets it's match and the new Warmouth

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I went fishing late in the evening just to kill time. I caught a green sunfish with a significant hump right before the dorsal fin. I thought it may have been defective. I believe it's a male ready for breeding. Didn't get a picture.

I put it in the tank and instantly it claimed a spot. The green is only 4 inches and took on 5 inch bluegills. Then the hybrid showed up and I thought how could I forget :duh::duh::wall::wall: The hybrid killed the other 2 greens I had. The green stared at the hybrid like, "Who are you? I took on those big fish and I will take you on too!!!" The hybrid looked at the green like it was saying, " I am not like those other fish, I am very different and three times your size."

I was looking for the net. The hybrid started slowing advancing and the green looked like "You gotta ask yourself Punk, do you feel lucky today? Well let's go Punk!!!" The hybrid immediately attacked. Well, well,well the hybrid tried twice and got it's officially title of "PUNK." The hybrid cowered on the other side of the tank and never looked back. I thought okay, the battle is settled and I can have a green in the tank. Then I added another green that I had 2 weeks and had no problems.

In tank number 2, the Warmouth is beautiful!! Tiny flecks of blue on the body and on the gill plates. This Warmouth is 8 inches!!! When I caught it, I didn't know what is was because it was dark outside. A guy fishing said not a warmouth. So I immediately went to the closest parking lot an still couldn't identify it. When I got it to the fish room, I knew what I had. Had I known it was a warmouth in the beginning I would have let it go.

Now it has been in the bucket I clean the tanks with, so can't release it. I took some pics and put it in with the 5 inch bluegills. It was eventually challenged by the dominant pink stripe bluegill. The warmouth lost twice and the bluegill left it alone and moved further down the tank. Luckily I have another 125 I am putting the bigger fish in soon.

Here are some pics of the Warmouth:

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If the Warmouth has to keep battling with the pink striped green, then the bluegill will be moved. It will be put in with Big Blue and Headshaker (7 inchers) and it will promptly be calmed down. Not one of my 5 inch bluegills in the same tank are crazy enough and never tried to challenge them.

I was trying to get my catfish before I started the new tank. It's best they all go in at the same time.
 
Alright the Warmouth is officially over all the bluegills. The Hybrid has won the challenge with the green that challenged him. However, the green with the large hump fights back and stands his ground.

I will be moving the Warmouth, Pink striped bluegills, Hybrid, Yellow Bullhead and a few other 5 inch fish to the 125 in the next couple of weeks. It is a brackish water tank and I am trying to make sure all the salt is out of the tank. It's difficult because the tank can't moved to spray it down.

The small bluegills and green have been moved to a 100 gallon stock pond. Will take pictures when the fish room is complete. I have 5 more tanks to tear down, so it will be awhile.
 
Luckily for me it was a slow leak. I spent 3 hours cleaning and aquascaping the tank. Making sure there was no brackish water and sand left in the tank. It held my brackish fish for months but I never filled the water over half the tank. The trim was pulling away from the tank, so I never trusted it. The seller assured me, the tank doesn't leak, he kept his fish in it.

The yellow bullhead was very happy with the 125, only to be snatched back out of the tank and put into it's smaller tank.

The tank is drained and I thought I would repair it but I am getting rid of it. The tank had been resealed previously by the another owner.
 
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