Re: [GSAS-Member] Native Fish - was Room temperature tank

[Trish <snips36@yahoo.com>]

Ok then by looking at the photo you show, the fish I
caught as a kid was a Pumkinseed Sunfish.

I still like them and it would be fun trying to keep
them sometime.

Trish
--- Tom Watson <onefish2fish@comcast.net> wrote:
> 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.htm
> 
> As 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>
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> >
> > 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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