The Natives are Restless...

Subject: Re: The Natives are Restless... Wed Apr 08, 2009 9:58 pm

saint_felony wrote:: Terrapins. There's no native diamondback rattlers in PA. We got eastern massasauga and timber rattlers though..

I know that, I was bein' a smartass...thought the "oh, yeah, nothin' venomous" would give it away.

WYite

The Turtle Whisperer Posts : 1930

D'oh! I had my sarcasm detector set to off. Smile

Should be back up and running after the Easter invasion.

Subject: Re: The Natives are Restless... Tue May 26, 2009 6:26 pm

Wyomingite wrote:: Anyone interested in native North American species besides me? Or in some cases for a few members, European species? Know it could be argued that fish from the southern states aren't cold water, but most don't truly fall under tropical either.

Anyways, back in college I kept plains killifish (Fundulus zebrinus), johnny darters (Etheostoma nigrum ) and Iowa darters (Etheostoma exile). The killies are very attractive. The darters are kind of dull outside of spawning dress, but make up for it with personality. Collecting your own fish is kinda fun as well.

WYite

How about Tangerine Darters, Rainbow Darters, Pumpkinseed Sunfish, Bluespotted Sunfish, Obesus, Sunfish, Black banded Sunfish, Warmouth, Dollar Sunfish, Orange Spotted Sunfish. Those are some of what im keeping currently, Here, at what one would expect to be the dawn of my fishkeeping hobby, Ive fallen in love with North American Native Fish=NANFA cheers

. I have about 6 tanks running currently with all natives, and always lookin for more. I only wish i had found them 20 years ago, when everything i caught was a bluegill, or bass, or at least i thought Smile

. So to answer your question YES, im into natives, Hook, Line . and Sinker...so to speak LOL

Subject: Re: The Natives are Restless... Tue Nov 10, 2009 4:48 pm

Sunfish are really just the NA version of SA cichlids. Me and my Papa went fishing for bream (Sunfish) and we kept getting little 2-3 inchers and we brought 5 home and put them in thepond. I say that was a mistake, we had 5 goldfish die and a koi that was mentally scarred for life! We spent a week, trying to get them out by hand and we just went to the bait shop, got a dozen crickets and with our poles, and careful manuvering from the giant koi, got them all out.

Subject: Re: The Natives are Restless... Tue Nov 10, 2009 11:29 pm

Comparing sunfish and cichlids is a good analogy, senegal. They do occupy similar ecological niches and have similar behaviors and breeding strategies. They are also as personable and intelligent as many of the cichlids.

Just to avoid any confusion to anyone not familiar with cichlids and sunfish, I'm gonna point out that sunfish are not cichlids, however. They do belong to the same order, Perciformes, and are closely related. But sunfish actually belong to the family Centrarchidae, while cichlids belong to the family Cichlidae (go figure, eh?)

WYite

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