So cool dude!! IMO this is the coolest fish channel bc of your love for native fish which being from south western pa I’ve caught most these fish all my life and even kept a few myself in the past. And they are soo soo cool to watch their behaviors we don’t get to see in the wild much. And they are some of the prettiest and fascinating fish around! You don’t have to go to South America to find beautiful and aggressive fish
I agree with everything you said about native fish! Sunfish have amazing personalities and swim right up to the glass when they're comfortable with you! Some of the most aggressive fish I have are my native fish! I love to showcase the native fish because I don't think people realize the fish you can keep that are just outside your door!
Native fish tanks just have a different feel to them! It's easier for people to relate to them since we've all been fishing and seen these fish before!!
@@chrismccune1523 I found a loophole in laws where I live, I can buy them but not catch the unless they are bait fish so a lot I can still keep as “bait I
The tank setup with the way you have the driftwood laid out is honestly the perfect condition that I look for when targeting the sunfish for sport in the wild🤙
Either the Mottled Sculpin or Rainbow Darter for my native palladarium tank, currently has guppies, crayfish, and snakes, those would be an amazing addition to my tank, DONE!!
This is great. My nephews just caught both species of fish out of a little private pond with nets and I took a couple of each and put them in my aquarium yesterday!
Driftwood in aquariums are always a winner to me, especially with the rocks it looks great. Those sunfish are also awesome, thanks for giving some tips, might need to get some soon.
The past couple days I've been trying to record my African Rope Fish, Tire Track Eel & Fire Eel eating on camera so i can send you the video! I really want to show off my tank & the fish that I am very proud of! You have inspired me to get back into Fish Keeping. Its relaxing to watch all my pet fish after A day of work & I enjoy it so much I now have 3 fish tanks up & running. Thanks for the inspiration & great content!
Greetings from Plymouth MA. My sons and I watched nesting sunfish with great joy. You've inspired me to set up my 55 with sunfish and minnows. (Jonas') Thanks! Great stuff on your channel!
I also ordered some longear sunfish from jonahs Aquarium. They came in great and have all be doing good. I have them in a tank inside and I decided to move one outside to my pond, (which isn’t a very massive pond) and it has grown double the size as the other ones. Great fish
I might be a bit biased... But the Bowfin is an awesome choice!! And thanks buddy! I definitely need to get some green in there, but I have the vision and I'm so excited!! 😁
Great video. I'm going out on the ice today here in WI in search of some sunfish for my aquarium. I learned from your video that the lake by my house has some northern sunfish along with the more common ones. Maybe i will notice other kinds as well now! Thank You!
Just started following you a week ago and watched all your videos already just started new aquariums in my new house thanks for watching some of your videos
That’s going to be an awesome tank once those long ear get to growing and their colors start showing up. I’ve always wanted to have some sort of sunfish. It’d be between them or the green sunfish. Done sir 👍🏻
Flagfish done. Also love the tank. I have had longer that I raised from babies under an inch long spawn 4 times. 5 or 6 babies survived and have eaten the subsequent spans, even with me feeding them 2 times daily.
I just got farm-raised juvenile rainbow darters (about 2" long). My research says to feed them freeze-dried bloodworms, but I'm not convinced that is the best choice. Any suggestions you can give would be great! Thank you!
Hopefully this is not too late but I have always had good luck teaching fish like that to eat chopped earthworms. And you are correct, many fish Darters included are not too fond of freeze dried anything.
Mottled sculpin. Done. Would like to get a hybrid striped bass, but I would love to do a cold water creek tank with some daces and such. Add maybe a helgremite and some other invertebrates too haha
Nice video...love the shiners....cant wait to see the pan fish fully grown and colored up... i wanna see your walleye and see how good they are doing....as i said i want to put them in my 125....when you gonna ship them to me ? Lol
SC Fish Keeping Awesome! Originally had 5, but now I’m down to 3 because the one little one got sucked up in the filter and the other decided to jump out of the tank 😢. But those were kind of on me because I didn’t have a lid for the tank. But now I do! And the 3 of them are thriving in a 5.5 gallon aquarium with a 10 gallon filter. Also added a tiny baby crawfish! So far I’m loving the native tank and soon I will be upgrading to a 37 gallon and getting some sort of sunfish!
Rainbow darter or rainbow shiners done! Thanks for all the information you always provide and being a good person. What you did for Anthony at UA was amazing bro and thank you for doing a giveaway! It’s nice to see a TH-camr that cares about their fans !DONE!
I’m getting ready to build my new native fish pond and I would stock it with long ear sun fish, done ✅ (this is my favorite video you made so far, keep it up).
I live in SC and currently figuring how I am going to do my 130gal tank. I have a lot of driftwood and river rock I'll be adding similarly to your set up. On sunfish and bluegill are they jumpers?
Well when I get my 75 gallon I now know where to get my Florida gar. I do have a 5 gallon right now and a Everglade pygmy sunfish would be a amazing fish to try and keep. Done
DONE! Hybrid bluegill or black crappie. Setting up my 110 gal tub pond in my lure painting shop tomorrow based off the one you built for your porch sitting area, gonna stock it with local freshwater breeds from central Illinois!
Haha loved the bloopers, we have all been there as content creators. Well I'm glad you got the sunfish!! But the mystery still remains what's going into the outside pond??? 🤔🐟
I have maintained my tropical 125 gal tank for about 10 yrs now and i recently caught a native WI fish that i am treating in hopes to add it to my established tank. I am already taking what i believe to be as proper steps to make sure everything will be safe and prosperous, however, what steps would you take? In a nutshell...
Darn! Only three years too late! Hope Jonah's is still doing business. I've wanted to keep a few North American natives for quite some time. Not so much interested in the catfish species, but am really up on sunfish and small warm water species.
badass tank man only think that would make it cooler is live native plants but i mean so badass love sun fish i have 3 tanks of my own but i wanna get into native fish. would sun fish be a good start? i currently have fancy gold fish mixed with sword tails and cherry barbs and tetras and another tank with axolotols
I tried a very similar tank with a Bluegill and striped shiners and my Bluegill ate them all. I think Pumpkin seeds stay smaller though. Oh also take a look at the Tadpole Madtom cat. Jonah's carries them and they are really fun to watch around the tank because they are goofy.
I know the big bluegill that I have in the 300g pond would crush any minnows that I put in with him! That must have been frustrating though. I'll have to check out the Madtoms! I don't know much about them!
Scape in the 125 looks 🔥. Ironically saw their post with the grass pickerel before this video. I’d like a grass pickerel because it is like a small pike that stays relatively small. I have a pike but eventually it will outgrow my tank and will need to be moved into my pond. Also I can’t find any wild grass pickerel in my area. Thanks and DONE.
Hey been watching your videos forever!! Been setting up a native tank for a long time and these Fish I been trying to find forever! 1.Grass pickerel 2.5-3” 2.Black Crappie 5-6” 3. longear sunfish 1-2” and a Mexican dwarf orange crayfish DONE.
Welcome back friend i missed you and yours videos... i love yours videos.what did you put in your pond outside. I wish that i could ender but i have no tank😭
@@SCFishKeeping oh i am but i cant right now because i am liveing with my sis and she a @ and you know how girls are.. my and mom are byeing a house of our own then i will get one. Btw my name is mark.
Its badass I love it definitely, I'm gonna build a pond for a nephew at his new house,if you get bored I'll let ya know when if u wanna come out n help n go fishing see different pet shops full of fish
Dollar sunfish, grass pikerel, black crappie, hybrid bluegill, yellow perch, coppertail bowfin, or redear sunfish. Done! Honestly want them all but those are the most wanted for me
@@SCFishKeeping just need to set up my new 180 and I'll be good to house some but since it's a custom plywood tank I might make it taller first. It's 8feet by 3feet and it's a foot high
done would get black bulled heads too go with my some over my other native fish including spotted spotted bass, blue gill , sunfish. Or Pygmy sunfish too go with my my native minnows
So cool dude!! IMO this is the coolest fish channel bc of your love for native fish which being from south western pa I’ve caught most these fish all my life and even kept a few myself in the past. And they are soo soo cool to watch their behaviors we don’t get to see in the wild much. And they are some of the prettiest and fascinating fish around! You don’t have to go to
South America to find beautiful and aggressive fish
I agree with everything you said about native fish! Sunfish have amazing personalities and swim right up to the glass when they're comfortable with you! Some of the most aggressive fish I have are my native fish! I love to showcase the native fish because I don't think people realize the fish you can keep that are just outside your door!
Im from south west Pa too, and yeah I agree a 100%!
I’m in Canada and I love these fish! I have been keeping pumpkinseeds for years, seriously underrated fish
I setup a native fish tank finally
I’ve always wanted a native tank. The longear sunfish would definitely be on the list. Also a school of perch would be awesome too.
Native fish tanks just have a different feel to them! It's easier for people to relate to them since we've all been fishing and seen these fish before!!
The thing is sadly in my state its illegal to have native fish in an aquarium without a license. Otherwise id definitely do it.
@@TheQweerdeer00 just do it
@@chrismccune1523 I found a loophole in laws where I live, I can buy them but not catch the unless they are bait fish so a lot I can still keep as “bait I
Here in Wisconsin we can have them but they count towards our bag limits. It's worth it!!!
This tank is amazing! I never thought of keeping local fish from my area. Maybe because I live in the city I guess. But these are great!
I'm sure even in the city there are some spots around you that you could find awesome fish! It's amazing whats out there when you look!
The tank setup with the way you have the driftwood laid out is honestly the perfect condition that I look for when targeting the sunfish for sport in the wild🤙
Love Jonah's Aquarium!! I've never....not even once...received unhealthy fish from them. HIGHLY recommend them!
Either the Mottled Sculpin or Rainbow Darter for my native palladarium tank, currently has guppies, crayfish, and snakes, those would be an amazing addition to my tank, DONE!!
That was the best intro about a new fish I seen in a long time
😁😁 Thanks buddy!!
The most interesting thing I saw that I could house right now is the mosquito fish!! I done!!!
I have a little school of mosquito fish!! They're awesome! And they're live-bearers so they're relatively easy to breed!
SC Fish Keeping thanks!! Might look into getting some!!
Love the killifish colors but the grass pickerel is pretty awesome too!
Done.
This is great. My nephews just caught both species of fish out of a little private pond with nets and I took a couple of each and put them in my aquarium yesterday!
I like a lot the natural native fish keeping. ( i m from France).
Driftwood in aquariums are always a winner to me, especially with the rocks it looks great. Those sunfish are also awesome, thanks for giving some tips, might need to get some soon.
Appreciate you my friend! I'm super happy with how this tank turned out. The driftwood makes this tank I agree!!
Grass Pickerel 1.25-1.5”. Done! Tank looks awesome Zac!
Good choice buddy!! I love my Grass Pickerel. Monster attitude in a tiny package!
The past couple days I've been trying to record my African Rope Fish, Tire Track Eel & Fire Eel eating on camera so i can send you the video! I really want to show off my tank & the fish that I am very proud of!
You have inspired me to get back into Fish Keeping. Its relaxing to watch all my pet fish after A day of work & I enjoy it so much I now have 3 fish tanks up & running. Thanks for the inspiration & great content!
Greetings from Plymouth MA. My sons and I watched nesting sunfish with great joy. You've inspired me to set up my 55 with sunfish and minnows. (Jonas') Thanks! Great stuff on your channel!
When I was younger I had a long eared sun fish that rivaled any salt water fish I had. He was gorgeous.
Done, I would definitely get some hybrids bass I love the set up that you have for them . Love the vids
Appreciate you!! Thanks!
You did a great job on this native fish tank. Best wishes !
Thank you!! I really appreciate the kind words Carolynn!
Mexican Dwarf Orange Crayfish! I have a ten gallon cycled tank and I would love to add one to my aquarium. I love your videos! Done.
That would be an awesome little addition to the tank!
Where you at? In Rancho Cordova there’s a place called aquarium depot, $6 for those amazing little guys.
I always have to watch till the end. Your two girls remind me so much of my two girls that are about the same age. Keep up the good videos
My girls only want me to fast forward to the end for when they're in the video! 😂😂
@@SCFishKeeping My girls blow kisses back at them when they watch.
I also ordered some longear sunfish from jonahs Aquarium. They came in great and have all be doing good. I have them in a tank inside and I decided to move one outside to my pond, (which isn’t a very massive pond) and it has grown double the size as the other ones. Great fish
The Coppertail Bowfin...DONE! On a side note, the Tank looks amazing! Very beautiful scaping, even early on. Excited to see how the tank develops!!
I might be a bit biased... But the Bowfin is an awesome choice!!
And thanks buddy! I definitely need to get some green in there, but I have the vision and I'm so excited!! 😁
Great video. I'm going out on the ice today here in WI in search of some sunfish for my aquarium. I learned from your video that the lake by my house has some northern sunfish along with the more common ones. Maybe i will notice other kinds as well now! Thank You!
Just started following you a week ago and watched all your videos already just started new aquariums in my new house thanks for watching some of your videos
Damn!! I appreciate you binge watching the videos and I'm sorry you had to sit through some of those early ones! 😂
That’s going to be an awesome tank once those long ear get to growing and their colors start showing up. I’ve always wanted to have some sort of sunfish. It’d be between them or the green sunfish. Done sir 👍🏻
Hard to go wrong with Sunfish man! So much personality and attitude! 😂
I’d love to keep largemouth bass, watching videos of them in aquariums is what got me back in the hobby. Done
We’ve got the same fish!!! I’ve had both the long ears and red fin shiners for a few months now. Added a male long ear today!
How's the tank doing with the male in there??
Gotta put a native tank on my aquarium bucket list. Put some plants in their. Awesome.
Sunfish are so beautiful, I had some when I lived in Florida and I would love to get them back one day
What type did you keep?? I can't wait for these Longear to color up!
@@SCFishKeeping I had dollar sunfish and mud sunfish
Have always wanted to do a native tank setup in my 120 gallon really like the color on the Central Longear Sunfish done
Flagfish done. Also love the tank. I have had longer that I raised from babies under an inch long spawn 4 times. 5 or 6 babies survived and have eaten the subsequent spans, even with me feeding them 2 times daily.
That's good to know! I have a tank set up for when I do eventually get some babies I can try to move them and grow them out!
I just got farm-raised juvenile rainbow darters (about 2" long). My research says to feed them freeze-dried bloodworms, but I'm not convinced that is the best choice. Any suggestions you can give would be great! Thank you!
Hopefully this is not too late but I have always had good luck teaching fish like that to eat chopped earthworms. And you are correct, many fish Darters included are not too fond of freeze dried anything.
Mottled sculpin. Done. Would like to get a hybrid striped bass, but I would love to do a cold water creek tank with some daces and such. Add maybe a helgremite and some other invertebrates too haha
Large Mouth Bass! Excited for the new tank!
Hard to go wrong with a Largemouth!
Been looking for a madtom catfish, done. Also amazing fish, they’re going to look amazing in that tank.
i had one before he only lasted about a year : /
Madtom are a fish I've never kept but need to!! And thank you! I'm so excited to see these things color up!
SC Fish Keeping i’d love to see one on your channel or even a video on keeping catfish as pets in general would be amazing
I had one for yearssss. He did great. Tank heater malfunction killed him :/
@@SCFishKeeping I've got bass and bluegills together and they don't fight... I guess you have seen some that do?
Nice video...love the shiners....cant wait to see the pan fish fully grown and colored up... i wanna see your walleye and see how good they are doing....as i said i want to put them in my 125....when you gonna ship them to me ? Lol
💘 Mosquito fish 😍
*DONE!*
Love the bloopers 😄
love the tank looks absolutely amazing nice job,the natural aquascaping looks perfect.
Such a hard decision cause there’s so many cool native fish to choose from! I think I’d have to go with a rainbow darter! Done!
The Rainbow Darters are a great choice!
A native tank is my goal. I currently have African Cichlids.
I have a few sunfish and a goldfish
Caught 20 one inch bluegills and put in a tank myself this spring lots of fun great looking tank
Sounds like an awesome tank! Bluegill have awesome personalities!
Longears are by far my favorite... would love to get my hands on some 😍
I can't wait for mine to color up!!
That’s so cool!! I just caught some native black nose Daces fro my tank!
Nice!!! How are they doing??
SC Fish Keeping Awesome! Originally had 5, but now I’m down to 3 because the one little one got sucked up in the filter and the other decided to jump out of the tank 😢. But those were kind of on me because I didn’t have a lid for the tank. But now I do! And the 3 of them are thriving in a 5.5 gallon aquarium with a 10 gallon filter. Also added a tiny baby crawfish! So far I’m loving the native tank and soon I will be upgrading to a 37 gallon and getting some sort of sunfish!
Yep
your right that tank looks awesome!!!
Thank you!! Appreciate you agreeing 😁
I adore rosy red minnows 😍😍 done!
That opening sequence was great!
😂😂 I love that commercial! Felt it was fitting here! Lol
SC Fish Keeping that commercial is awesome. And yes, very fitting here!
I love the 125 btw! That scape is beautiful my friend good job!
Thank you sir!! I'm so happy with how it turned out!
You know what I like you’re videos you have a really cool fish frfr
The tank is amazing. Absolutely love it!
Thanks Tim!! I appreciate it!!
Madtom done been looking for a place selling these for like 3 years now and I love your videos you’ve inspired me to get my own tanks
Glad I could introduce you to Jonah's Aquarium then!! Good luck!
Rainbow darter or rainbow shiners done! Thanks for all the information you always provide and being a good person. What you did for Anthony at UA was amazing bro and thank you for doing a giveaway! It’s nice to see a TH-camr that cares about their fans !DONE!
so glad i found this channel! amazing video!
I’m getting ready to build my new native fish pond and I would stock it with long ear sun fish, done ✅ (this is my favorite video you made so far, keep it up).
I'm getting a 135 and I'm thinking about setting up a native tank and creating a tank like yours.
I will add some plants in there too.
this tank setup is amazing keep up the work SC😊
I live in SC and currently figuring how I am going to do my 130gal tank. I have a lot of driftwood and river rock I'll be adding similarly to your set up. On sunfish and bluegill are they jumpers?
Well when I get my 75 gallon I now know where to get my Florida gar. I do have a 5 gallon right now and a Everglade pygmy sunfish would be a amazing fish to try and keep. Done
Thank you so much you encourage me to make a pond ive dream of doing it for so long
DONE! Hybrid bluegill or black crappie. Setting up my 110 gal tub pond in my lure painting shop tomorrow based off the one you built for your porch sitting area, gonna stock it with local freshwater breeds from central Illinois!
That would be awesome to be able to finish with some lures and look over to see a pond of local fish!!
Haha loved the bloopers, we have all been there as content creators. Well I'm glad you got the sunfish!! But the mystery still remains what's going into the outside pond??? 🤔🐟
Great ideas. I like how the lighting works
Really loved the informative content of this video!
Toss up between the Black Crappie and the Longear. ✔️ DONE
Just got my first aquarium, going to surprise my boys with it.
I have a 45 gallon and a 75 gallon sponge filter debating on if I should go hook up on a blue gill and just make a natural mid size tank
Shitttt didn’t see you posted a video was super busy at work didn’t even see my notifications, glad to see a vid here bro!
Love the tank, can't wait to see all the plants n the finished tank
Ha ha ha 😆 the bloopers
Always enjoy watching your videos buddy
Felt like throwing in a few clips of what I deal with while making these videos! 😂
Love your videos keep up the great work I would love to have a coppertail bowfin in a native fish tank or my pond done
And mark is the G.O.A.T🐐🐐🐐
Agreed!!
I have maintained my tropical 125 gal tank for about 10 yrs now and i recently caught a native WI fish that i am treating in hopes to add it to my established tank. I am already taking what i believe to be as proper steps to make sure everything will be safe and prosperous, however, what steps would you take? In a nutshell...
Darn! Only three years too late! Hope Jonah's is still doing business. I've wanted to keep a few North American natives for quite some time. Not so much interested in the catfish species, but am really up on sunfish and small warm water species.
Yellow perch, Mexican dwarf crawfish. Done. Been looking at his fish for a while I miss my largemouth I had
badass tank man only think that would make it cooler is live native plants but i mean so badass love sun fish i have 3 tanks of my own but i wanna get into native fish. would sun fish be a good start? i currently have fancy gold fish mixed with sword tails and cherry barbs and tetras and another tank with axolotols
Large mouth bass would be awesome to watch one grow and get it trained to hand feedings. Done!
Largemouth can become SO personable if you start with them young!
SC Fish Keeping thats what I’m hoping I have a blue gill now that I’ve raised from a little fry and he will follow me around the tank
I tried a very similar tank with a Bluegill and striped shiners and my Bluegill ate them all. I think Pumpkin seeds stay smaller though. Oh also take a look at the Tadpole Madtom cat. Jonah's carries them and they are really fun to watch around the tank because they are goofy.
I know the big bluegill that I have in the 300g pond would crush any minnows that I put in with him! That must have been frustrating though.
I'll have to check out the Madtoms! I don't know much about them!
@@SCFishKeeping , my Bluegill is still fairly small and ate minnows longer then him lol.
Whooo Whoooooo. New fish day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
😂😂 I had to use that commercial... Lol
Love this tank and love native fish!!
Scape in the 125 looks 🔥. Ironically saw their post with the grass pickerel before this video. I’d like a grass pickerel because it is like a small pike that stays relatively small. I have a pike but eventually it will outgrow my tank and will need to be moved into my pond. Also I can’t find any wild grass pickerel in my area. Thanks and DONE.
Grass Pickerel are a perfect fish if you want a native tank with attitude and aggression without the size!!
Sweet addition. Bloopers 😂
Hey zach I'm stocking my pond and I need a bait fish that reproduces a bunch and dont get bigger than 5 inches what do u recommend to stock them with?
That tank is an absolute beaut mate
Thank you!! I'm so happy with it!
@@SCFishKeeping i have a 240l tank now n my gourami built a big nest, hope your fish ll make a nest too man
Hey been watching your videos forever!! Been setting up a native tank for a long time and these Fish I been trying to find forever! 1.Grass pickerel 2.5-3” 2.Black Crappie 5-6” 3. longear sunfish 1-2” and a Mexican dwarf orange crayfish DONE.
i have some long eared sunfish and yeah they are some of the prettiest fish in fresh water, make great pets. 1 of em is about a pound
The wood in the tank looks great! Grass pickerel or walleye would go great with my channel catfish and bluegill. Done
I have a 300 hill stream tank and I could use some of those red fins. On the list though yellow fin shiners and done
Welcome back friend i missed you and yours videos... i love yours videos.what did you put in your pond outside. I wish that i could ender but i have no tank😭
Well you should get a tank!! 😜
@@SCFishKeeping oh i am but i cant right now because i am liveing with my sis and she a @ and you know how girls are.. my and mom are byeing a house of our own then i will get one. Btw my name is mark.
Keep doin' what you do. Thanks for these vids!
Appreciate your support!!
Already following them, so that part was easy lol. I would love some Everglades Pygmy Sunfish! Done!
I could see you making an awesome little tank for them!!
That tank is so cool!!!
Thank you!! I love it so much!
Dollar sunfish 😍😍 my goodness those are gorgeous. Done!
Right?! I'm thinking I might need a group of Dollar Sunfish!!
The smaller largemouth bass would be awesome to raise up into a monster!
Done
SWEET tank! What is that you are feeding them?
What is the substrate in this tank? Did you purchase it the way it is or did u mix sand/gravel?
Its badass I love it definitely, I'm gonna build a pond for a nephew at his new house,if you get bored I'll let ya know when if u wanna come out n help n go fishing see different pet shops full of fish
Where are you at again buddy?
Bluefin killifish & flagfish done, great vids keep it up!
Dollar sunfish, grass pikerel, black crappie, hybrid bluegill, yellow perch, coppertail bowfin, or redear sunfish. Done! Honestly want them all but those are the most wanted for me
You have a good list buddy!!
@@SCFishKeeping just need to set up my new 180 and I'll be good to house some but since it's a custom plywood tank I might make it taller first. It's 8feet by 3feet and it's a foot high
done would get black bulled heads too go with my some over my other native fish including spotted spotted bass, blue gill , sunfish. Or Pygmy sunfish too go with my my native minnows
I got a black bullhead from Jonah's Aquarium! They're awesome little catfish! Sounds like you have some cool tanks running!
Small grass pikriele done you amazing
Love my Grass Pickerel! Great choice!
Been wanting a grass pickerel since you got one!! So with that being said grass pickerel and done
Love the vids and gals to see you posting
I'll be posting more! Promise!