What natives do you keep?

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I keep LMB, Bullhead, Darters, Fatheads, Shiners, Horeyhead chubs, Sticklebacks, Banded Killifish.
 
Currently have 9" bowfin(1), 7" redfin pickerel(1), bluenose shiner, flagfin shiner, blackstripe topminnow in my personal tanks and a fair number of the following in our stock tanks: blackbanded sunfish, bluespotted sunfish, dollar sunfish, longear sunfish, golden topminnow, lined topminnow, bluefin killifish, eastern mudminnow, central mudminnow, lowland shiner, savannah darter, blackbanded darter, swamp darter, sawcheek darter, and several others that I'm forgetting.

Chip in SC
 
ksiaquatics said:
Currently have 9" bowfin(1), 7" redfin pickerel(1), bluenose shiner, flagfin shiner, blackstripe topminnow in my personal tanks and a fair number of the following in our stock tanks: blackbanded sunfish, bluespotted sunfish, dollar sunfish, longear sunfish, golden topminnow, lined topminnow, bluefin killifish, eastern mudminnow, central mudminnow, lowland shiner, savannah darter, blackbanded darter, swamp darter, sawcheek darter, and several others that I'm forgetting.

Chip in SC

I wanna see pics of your tank...........otherwise I think your lying about what you have........J/K ;) I just wanna see your tank.
 
Gamefishin said:
I wanna see pics of your tank...........otherwise I think your lying about what you have........J/K ;) I just wanna see your tank.

Already posted pics of the bowfin and redfin pickerel in another thread (and I did see the "J/K" part) :naughty: I'll try to get some pics of the others soon. Everything else wants to move as I take the pic and the stupid shiners never stay still. :swear:

Chip
 
Here are some of my Bluenose shiner pics (Pteronotropis welaka). Second pic using flash.

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A few more blurry welaka pics. You get the idea of how their nose looks and why they are name bluenose shiner.

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