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The only NA natives around here are the Texas cichlid and rosy reds. Oh, I almost forgot that channel catfish are around also.

Please tell the country/area in which you live.

I am in Tennessee.

Some of 'em are illegal to keep in the home aquarium here in NY, and none are sold in LFS's that i've seen, other than the occasional sunfish.

My LFS has Florida Flagfish, Sailfin Mollies, Desert Pupfish, Topwater Minnow and Star Minnow... All are NA natives, none are banned from collections. In the past, they have had a number of pygmy sunfish types.

If I remember the acts correctly, gamefish may be controlled but are allowed with a permit.



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We have mollies, flagfish, texas chichlids and a few other native chichlids here in indiana. In KY they tend to have more though

Inky

You may find this surprising, but guess what one of the best parts of the world to buy North American natives is?

Germany.

For some reason, NA natives are BIG in Germany. And change hands for prices that will seem ridiculous to anyone living near the home waters of many of these fishes!

For example, Lepomis gibbosus, the Pumpkinseed Sunfish. Would YOU pay $20 for a juvenile? The Germans do (or the equivalent in Euros).


Panda Catfish fan and keeper/breeder since Christmas 2002

Holy snap...20 bucks for one? I eat those things lol.

Well i would say that the pumkinseed might be the best looking northeastern fish around...what about the florida gar, there in every lfs.

I would love to do a large tank with NA natives, and I would probably have the pumpkinseed be the focus of the tank.

I also think a smaller tank with some TN natives(since I am from TN) darters.

I have 4 darters that were contaminants of a LFS shipment, but they closely resemble the greensided darter. I do not think that is exactly the same species.

up in ny, i see texas cichlids, channel cats, mollies, various minnows, a few types of gars, and probably a few other little things that i dont really notice.

I've never seen any native fish in a store selling fish for tanks except I guess mollies. Those are actually native fish? I know none of the mollies I've seen came from their native waters in probably a dozen generations or more. I have netted a few pumpkinseeds out of the neighbors pond but decided a few months later they were too agressive for my tastes and returned them to their pond. I don't really like most cichlids aside from a few of the more peaceful ones and the pumpkinseeds acted just like cichlids. Definitely not peaceful cichlids either. I've been trying to find some darters but despite there being many species living in my state I've never actually seen one.

Bob would you be talking about my store? I know when I first started working there we had flag fish. BTW where have you been? Haven't seen you in a while.

Rigth now I am keeping a warmouth... well so I thought! I started looking at [link=this site]http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://gwsphotos.com/images/2133.jpg&imgrefurl=http://gwsphotos.com/assets/AllSpecies.html&h=201&w=400&sz=50&tbnid=3jZx7OMz1AOb6M:&tbnh=60&tbnw=120&hl=en&start=9&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dpygmy%2Bsunfish%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DG [/link] and it looks much more like a green sunfish. There are a lot of sunfish that I have never heard of. Very pretty fish.

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Wings,

Because I travel from K'zoo to Milwaukee, I still think of those beer city stores as lfs in addition to MVP. I have been running quite a bit, I was in once or twice when you weren't but it will catch up.

I will be in tomorrow as I need CBW.



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"To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research."
researched from Steven Wright

I used to have a tank with a pumpkinseed

He was cute, but he got too big for the 10 gal that he was in, and I moved him into a friend's 55 gal american cichlid tank... where the poor guy got ripped to pieces

NA natives I see around here (SD): mollies, texas cichlids, florida flags... I think that's about it... I don't really pay attention tho