What is this fish?
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They don't have it when that young, my female took a few months for it to develop. The females only get about 6-8" and are much more calm than males. Although my 4.25" female can still throw around a trio of 6-7" creek chubs when she gets moody.
Green sunfish is common hitchhiker in the feeder tanks than other sunfish species. Since its pretty small, but it looks like all green sunfish juveniles I have at this moment. The white edge won't show up till they add some size.
It appeared to be a green hybrid sunfish due to the caudal fins and dorsal fins being taller and no black spot in the dorsal/anal fin.
It appeared to be a green hybrid sunfish due to the caudal fins and dorsal fins being taller and no black spot in the dorsal/anal fin.
I did some googling and I could definitely see that. The body shape looks about right and there is some copper banding around the cheeks and gill plate, but what's throwing me is that the dorsal fin on the OP's fish is taller than I see on any warmouth. What I think is likely the case is that this is, as MN_Rebel suggested, a hybrid sunfish.
Green sunfish x warmouth, perhaps?
Problem is that its super small and all experts always got it wrong. We can be wrong on identification. In my opinion is that we should wait till it is 3" then we will know for sure.
haha true, but either way I'm fairly certain we got it narrowed down for him to a possible 2 species.
First pick it looked like a smallmouth bass. then I leaded towards bluegill. Maybe I see warmouth too.
+1, at 3-4" we should be able to positively determine species (or hybrid) and sex.
