north american fish

[razey]

i am setting up a new tank and was looking for something original to setup i guess. It hit me that i have never really seen a north american tank of fish....mabey i have but, ya'll get the point. anyways i was wondering if anyone had some reccomendations on what kinds of fish they would reccomend. i did find one website that sold some pretty interesting fish website (http://jonahsaquarium.com/fishlist.htm#north%20american)
does anyone have any other places they buy fish like these from? thanks =)

[agez]

id net em myself, bait a net at your local river/stream AND pond. try baiting with small crustations first then live fish, then something different- meat maybe??? you should get a variety of catch this way. also make sure you bait small as to not attract the giants you cant keep and might damage. have fun!!!

[OwassoFish]

I once kept an Oklahoma Species tank. (Owasso, OK is where I live) I had a largemouth bass, bluegill, channel cat, and a crappie in there. It was very interesting and fun. Caught them all myself. The one I really wanted, I never got, a spoonbill catfish or also known as a paddlefish. It's probably a good thing though because I would have had to release it as a juvinile as they reach several feet in size as adults. I just fed them my leftovers after going fishing. Minnows, feeder goldfish, chicken livers and such. Pretty cheap tank to keep.

Do you have any interesting local species?

[pseudo]

cool, a largemouth bass!!!!!!!!!!

[zenobium]

I've kept:

Pike
Largemouth
Bluegill
Sunfish
Perch

If you try the pike or bass, expect to release eventually unless you have a 500 Gallon tank sitting around. I also worked at a store that kept a 12,000 Gallon setup with musky and everything under the sun. My advice, if you plan on doing this, is to stick to:

-Grass/Redfin Pickeral
-Bullhead/Madtoms
-Bluegills/Sunfish
-Rockbass

All these fish will get territorial and can/will kill each other. In the 12,000 setup, I was constantly pulling out injured fish.

Remember, however, that most N. Americans will only eat live food! I have only had luck weaning the sunfish and bluegills to pellets, alothough I know of people who got catfish to eat them too. A bass or pike will likely never eat flakes or pellets IMO.


-Zen

[jonah]

I've kept sunfish and bluegill before. They took pellets within a day or so of being put in the tank. They look awesome under good light, especially the long ears.

[SGypsyMermaid]

http://www.nanfa.org/

[SGypsyMermaid]

http://www.aquaculturestore.com/

[highplainsdrifter]

I used to net fish out of ponds and lakes regularly with just a plain fish net. This is done at night while they sleep, using a dim flashlight to spot the fish.

[new guy]

i rember in my 7th grade class my teacher had a tank with a large mouth bass a blue gill and i think like a 10" pl*co it was realy cool he whent to the bait sop and hade like 4 10 gals full of feeders and he would go take a net full of feeders and dump them in and the fish would go crazy it was one of my more fun classes if you know what i mean

but some stupid kid was mesing arond and droped a ped in the tank and the large ate it and was dead vearv soon after :(