Pickerel

[Bradyfam]

Aggressive

 

[Itsadeepbluesea]

It depends on where you are located as to what your native options are. There are numerous species that would fit a 36 inch bow front. What are you looking for out of a native? What interests you?

 

[Kelly_Aquatics]

Sculpin are fairly aggressive and will eat fish almost as big as them self. Some of the sunfish speices will stay under 6” and behave like cichlids

 

[Bradyfam]

Sunfish or some other predators

 

[Kelly_Aquatics]

If you want you can have a look through here
https://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/...uatics-native-fish-catching-log.739812/page-3 the non brackish Stickleback speices are pretty efficient micro predators and have really cool mating rituals

 

[Bradyfam]

Thanks

 

[Itsadeepbluesea]

Another resource for you is nanfa.org

 

[Bradyfam]

Thanks

 

[Deadeye]

Central stone rollers and lake chubs are good smaller native fish that are fairly good looking
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The stone roller reminds me of a gold wolf fish and the lake chub reminds me of a tummy nose tetra
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First thing I thought was that that looked like a wolf, then I saw you wrote the same thing lol.

 

[The Masked Shadow]

Hi,

I personally like darters and sculpin because they are agressive. However, they do eat live food, and most likely won’t be weaned off, just like most aggressive natives. I don’t think anyone besides Pygmy sunfish can live in their comfortably, even the small ones. We need more information- is it ok if they eat live fish?