Pumkinseed Sunfish look like this: http://fish.dnr.cornell.edu/nyfish/Centrarchidae/pumpkinseed.html Yellow Perch look like this: http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/water/fhp/fish/3jyperch.htm Brim or breem sunfish are usually Bluegill Sunfish which look like this: http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/fish/infish/species/bgl/bgl.htmAs you can see, sunfish share many characteristics. Largemouth and Smallmouth are also sunfish but don't appear to belong to the same family. As you can also see, popular nomenclature can be very misleading. There is no single species that has a common name of "Sun Perch". There are many fish classified by local fisher-people as sun perch.
The sunfish, perch, and Crappie are exotic species that can be caught by hook and line in Washington. They have behaviors similar to Chiclids. There are hundreds of other native species. These include darters (like very colorful sculpins) shiners (like tinfoil barbs) madtoms (native catfish that get up to 6 inches) killifish (you know) livebearers (the tiniest native fish in North America is a livebearer). There are also salmon, trout, sturgeon and ? Each have needs and preferences. From that standpoint they are, in my opinion, much more interesting and challenging than tropicals.
Tom West Hyblos Creek Drainage Washington State http://www.nanfa.org/ Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 17:08:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: Trish <snips36@yahoo.com> Subject: RE: [GSAS-Member] Room temperature tank To: Greater Seattle Aquarium Society member chat <gsas-member@thekrib.com> Message-ID: <20050422000813.3440.qmail@web40612.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Whoops!!!!!! My mistake. The Pumkin Seed is a Yellow Perch. The Sun Perch is also know as Brim,Perch,Sun Perch, Bream, and Sun Fish. The Perch I am talking about are small and round....with spiny dorsal fins, and have lots of yellow on their belly's, and almost rainbow dots on their sides....very pretty. Maybe someday I'll be able to try and keep them. The problem with this is talking Hubby into another tank.....LoL. Which I don't think will happen any time soon! He has a hard enough time with me keeping 6! But I say, "Hey whats ONE more!" Trish
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