Blake, this is the first I've seen of your videos. I appreciate your passion for the hobby and the depth of knowledge. I'm getting back into the hobby after several years' break. I'm starting my own fish room, trying to gradually add a tank or two now and then. I bred some cichlids over 10 years ago, scianochromis fryeri, and what they usually call electric yellows (labidochromis). They were ready easy to breed, but my favorite was a pair of nicaraguensis. The color was so gorgeous that I have never found another that matched up to their sheer beauty, especially the male, of course. Anyway, I'm looking to start up again, and your video was motivational, so thanks!
That's awesome to hear John, glad your getting back into the hobby. We livestream every Friday at 6 pm est. If you want to hang out with a bunch of fish people stop on by.
I am glad to see the rainbow darters. We have orange throated darters in the creek by our house. I'd love to keep some, but I need to learn more first.
@@MrBeeznutz How do you keep your wild caught fish alive ? Catfish mainly ? cause every catfish I've caught dies, from small to lg & from a fresh water lake, what am I missing ?
@Raising Goldfish on a budget, what were you trying to feed them? As far as my success keeping wild fish alive I think it mostly boils down to them being able to eat a nutrious diet. Once I can get my fish to eat raw shrimp everything is golden.
@@MrBeeznutz Thank You! Personally I love keeping Native North American fish and it’s Great to see other Like minded fish keepers bringing more attention to our awesome Native fish
Agreed! I have a red fin pickerel and he's about maybe 8 inches. He gets along with the tank cleaners (crayfish) and is probably the largest fish I've had, while being the easiest one to take care of!
Awesome tanks. I love the darter/shiner, perch/sunfish, and catfish tanks. Also the plants in the grass pickerel tank look awesome. You seriously have the dream tank room.
I really enjoyed seeing your native tanks, we have so many wonderful fish options on our own continent but tend to take it for granted. I want to start keeping southeastern US species in particular since it is where I live. Thanks for the inspiration!
Glad to hear you enjoyed the video, you are absolutely correct, so many cool species of fish from this country. And as far as south eastern US natives go, in my opinion that's were some of the coolest and prettiest natives in this country come from.
Awesome channel! Subbed. Surprised I’m just finding you I watch this stuff all the time. I keep a northern snakehead and another tank with a warmouth and blue crabs and some other natives
Awesome man, glad you found us, sounds like youtube is finally getting us out there to some same minded people. We livestream every Friday at 6 pm est. If you wanna come hang out and see some stuff live.
@@MrBeeznutz yea absolutely love keeping fish highly rewarding and way less maintenance than people think if you do it right. I have another channel I do drone and aquarium stuff on but only like 50 subs or something
I agree. They are beautiful and very cool fish. I've tried crayfish before, and they always found a way out of the tanks. They are very interesting as well. Thanks, buddy.
The bowfin is very Snakehead like, I recently lost my snakehead He hit his head on the glass lid of the tank and damaged himself. I was very sad.😢 Awesome set up you have I love the little pike ,very Cute
Thanks bud, I was unsure when I caught it and according to the Facebook north American native enthusiasts it's a war gill, but hey you never know, wouldn't be to far fetched to call it a Greengill, thanks for watching and taking the time to comment.
I would live to have some warpaints, but am unable to source any. They are such a cool and colorful shiner. There are some really amazing fish in Tennessee.
Thanks Jay, glad you enjoyed it. They are yellow perch caught here in Northern Indiana, but being in a tank with black substrate they really look quite dark most of the time.
4:00 that plant looks like a species of Potamogeton (or something else in Potamogetonaceae). Check what species are present in you area, could be native, could invasive/non-native, there are plenty of both across the eastern US. If it is in Potamogetonaceae it’s in the same order (Alismatales) as cryptocoryne, as well as almost every other rosette freshwater aquarium plants (off the top of my head I can only think of a few genera that are not in this order, that form rosettes and that are represented in the home aquarium, that being water lilys and relatives of Nymphaeales and grass like plants, like hairgrass, of Poales).
Great video. An exotic temperate species that you may be able to have is the Ornate Rainbowfish, Rhadincentrus ornatus. They come from Australia around Brisbane. They’re not a tropical species, and having a cooling period is better for them. As long as the temperature doesn’t go below 60F, then they’re fine. They’re multiple color variations. They’re a small, schooling species that have an average adult size of 4.5”. There’s a few sources for them at the moment in the USA. I have the Seary’s Creek variety.
Thank you I appreciate the recommendation, currently the temperature is 55 degrees in the fishroom, but that is about as low as it gets. I feel like i could probably keep a couple select species of rainbowfish if I picked the right ones.
@@MrBeeznutz do you check the temperatures of the aquariums? If they have lids, then heat from the lights and filters will be held inside the aquariums. They may be a little warmer than 55F.
@@MrBeeznutz ok so then rhads won’t work unless you get a heater for the aquarium at set it to 65F in winter. That won’t consume a lot of power and you can take it out when the weather is warmer.
Where are you located? I am in SC and have outdoor tubs for the summer months and then hold the fish in the garage tanks in the winter. I would be interested in some small sunfish that may be able to survive the winters here outdoors. I just got some Florida Flag fish recently and will see how they do outdoors. Do you keep any outdoors? Really great video thanks for sharing
I'm in Northern Indiana, and as far as small sunfish around you, I think there are dollar sunfish, blue spotted sunfish, and black banded sunfish Should all do well for you.
That plant is eel grass, aka Tape grass (Vallisneria spiralis). Considered an invasive species and grows wild in the state of Texas. This was an aquarium plant that was mistakenly introduced to the wild.
Crayfish are such cool creatures, I've kept them in the past and they always surprise me on how well they can escape from Aquariums, thanks for sharing.
It would be awesome if you put the name of the plants in text across the screen as you show them....I'd like to get some of those. Nice tanks by the way! The grass pickerel is pretty cool.
Thank you, I really only keep about 5 different plants. Rotalla rotundafolia, wendetii crypts, dwarf sag and some valseneria and hydrophilia coryombosa. Thanks for watching and if you have any specific questions feel free to ask away.
Just found your channel thanks to @abcaquaticbiotopecreations8915. Nice! I have a lot of catching up to do going through your content. I currently have two display tanks, one is a Chesapeake Bay oyster reef biotope tank, and the other one is a river tank of local fish to me from the Potomac River drainage in Maryland and VA. I only keep native tanks, no heaters, in a basement with no AC in the summer and no heat in the winter. I'm not going to reveal my next plan, which is an ambitious one, but ultimately will have an added tank for longear sunnies. I also hope to set up a tank for local bluespots. Question: do you think that bluespotted sunfish and mudminnows would get along? Because at my potential collecting spots, both are supposed to be there. Anway, nice fish room! I call my family rec room my fish room, but my wife doesn't like that LOL.
Awesome man glad to have you here and sounds like we got alot in common as far as fishkeeping goes. I think bluespots and mudminnows would do good together. I keep a dollar sunfish in with my mudminnows and neither species seems to care that the other is there. Glad you found the channel and cool that Keni directed you here. Our fishrooms sound very similar as far as have goes, or lack there of, what state are you in? We're in Northern Indiana and the Temps in our fiahroom range from 73-55 depending on the season.
@@MrBeeznutz I'm in Maryland. I think our temps are about the same downstairs. My low might be upper 50s. I love every species of fish that you're keeping. We don't have dollar sunfish here, but man are they pretty. We have pumpkinseeds. In fact, I caught and QT'd a bunch of them for the Zoo. They left my house earlier this week and I miss them already. I am fascinated by longears and bluespots. My wife's rec room will soon have tanks of them LOL.
That's awesome buddy, so cool to hear of other cold water fish keepers and north American native fish keepers, love all the sunfishes, happy we have been connected.
Nice video. I'm kind of new to the channel. Where do you get your fish from? I am thinking of setting up a 40g acrylic with Native species. I live in the foothills of NC and there's some streams, rivers and reservoirs near me. I was thinking of stocking small sunfish, flagfish and other smaller fish.
Awesome and welcome to the channel. Most of our fish have been collected by us in our local waterways here in Indiana. But you want to check your local laws and regulations before doing so. I would also recommend Jonahsaquarium.com as a great place to buy North American native fish. Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment.
I just found your channel and I love all your tanks. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area. I have a 120 and a 90 that I set up in a common filtration system. I also do cold water native species in my system. I at one point I had a large mouth bass, a green sunfish, a white sturgeon and a bull head catfish. Oh yah, a red eared slider turtle. I had to shut it down when a cleaning disaster broke the front glass😢. I will be getting it back up in the near future. My biggest issue is the heat. My local temperature can get over 100 degrees for days. Would love to do mini Sunny’s next time but how do I get any. Is there a law preventing me from obtaining any of the fish that you had in this video? Is there a broker that you could refer me to? Thanks for any help you can give me.
I feel like the laws around native fish and California are quite strict, so I would recommend you read up on that issue. But I would also recommend you get in contact with Mark over at Jonahsaquarium.com, he is very well versed in the laws from state to state and he knows what he's allowed to ship to certain states and he is a very reputable supplier of North American native fish. Glad you found the channel and welcome aboard. We live stream every Friday at 6pm. Est. If your interested in hanging out with us and other fishy minded people live from our fishroom. Have a great day.
I dunno if relevant to you but I think you can apply to the Department of Agriculture in order to be able to collect local fish & bring them home from a National Forest [i may be wrong -- you'll have to research the specifics of the fish or whatever]. I think a breeding population of local-Cali, NON-rainbow trout to get into the hobby woudl be GREAT to preserve the species as well, and a lot of them stay small. Let me know if you make any headway snice I am in a similar boat as you not being able to bring Sunfish to Santa Barbara!!
Wow those are some very cool setups! I just setup my first 55 gallon recently and am going to catch/cast net some small bluegill/sunfish to put in there. Do you think 55 gallons is adequate for 2-4 small bluegill?
Yeah I think a 55 would work for some small bluegill for a while. I would suggest getting about 4-6 little ones, the numbers will help calm aggression. If you end with 2 or 3 you will probably get a dominant fish that will harass the others.
Always enjoy seeing your guy's coldwater fishroom tanks. Everything is looking great! One thing that occurred to me while watching that I don't think we've talked about before, what's the die back or changes in the plants when the tanks start getting colder at the end of fall and winter? Crypts melt? Anything that disappears and comes back when it gets warm again? Thanks for the video!
That's a great question, and I haven't had any trouble with plants that were established prior to it getting cold in the fishroom. What i did experience with the 150 was I set it up during the coldest months of winter and when I grabbed crypts from other tanks they did not grow, they all melted off and never came back, I'm assuming the stress of moving them along with the cold was just to much. Thanks Dan appreciate your continued support.
I love this! I am going to do a North American freshwater next i have a 125 that housed 4 varieties of tropheus. The Ilangi and bulu point were breeding colonies so i decided to get studid and see if i could get a brood of syndontis multipunctatus happen must have bought 4 males as i never had another tropheus fry or a baby cookoo cat either. My last troph passed a month back at the age of 21! He'd been blind for three years and got his floating pellets in a 6" diameter floating silcon ring. I would like to know where you get your fish. Are you able to catch/trap local, or will i be able to purchase stock? Thanks for the great tour.
That's amazing to hear you kept that fish for 21 years. I catch and collect most of my fish myself here in the local waterways of Indiana. Check your local laws and regulations as each state has different laws concerning collecting and possessing the local fish. For those fish you can't find or legally catch or collect you can contact Jonahsaquarium.com and purchase many North American native fish. Thanks for commenting and sharing with us.
That's unfortunate, they are a very cool genus of fish in general. I imagine they are concerned if they get into public water ways they would hurt your native fish populations
@@MrBeeznutz That's exactly why. There are a small amount of pumpkin seed that are invasive here, but you cannot bring any in now. You can still routinely buy goldfish, koi and grass carp that are just as bad, so it doesn't really make sense.
Hey, whereabouts are you located? Getting native fish in Canada is a serious pain. Transporting live game fish is illegal. Ruling out wild caught sunfish, bass, catfish, esox family, walleye and perch, etc. I do not know about captive bred fish but getting the proper licensing to breed them in the first place would probably make them prohibitively expensive. I can,however, catch and keep baitfish. I think a madtom would be really cool if I could manage to catch one.
I'm in Northern Indiana in the US. That sucks that you can't even transport live fish, but it is what is is. But if you can keep baitfish I'm sure you can find some cool fish if you net around. I wonder if there are sculp8n up there? Some really cool small bait fish.
I bought it from Jonahsaquarium.com, a few years back, if you get in contact with Mark over there, he might be able to get you one in the spring. About the only time you can find them is in the spring when they breed and people catch the fry when they're swimming in a fry ball. They are surprisingly hard to catch at a small size for some reason.
@@MrBeeznutz What I mean is, western mosquitofish aren't found in Florida. Also, to my knowledge, there has never been any instances of melanism found in western mosquitofish, only eastern. I'm pretty sure yours is an eastern.
I know it’s a long shot that you’ll see this, but my biggest white whale is a yellow bullhead tank. Everywhere online says they can’t be kept in tanks, I see you have three in that tank in this video, and it’s a year later, how are they doing now?
Thanks, as far as the spotted sunfish goes those are native to Southeast US and this guy was caught by us here in Northern Indiana. Appreciate you coming by the channel and taking the time to comment.
@@MrBeeznutz my bad, it has a related species that was separated from the spotted sunfish, know as Lepomis miniatus (red spotted sunfish) which at its northern most native range is ironically northern Indiana according to the USGS maybe it’s a female of that species?
@@trueHerpnerd I'm pretty confident it's a hybrid between a bluegill and either a warmouth or green sunfish but who really knows. Been in this area my whole life and never caught any sunfish besides bluegill, pumpkinseeds, red ears, green sunfish and warmouth. But they could also be elusive. Either way glad to have you here.
The laws are different depending on which state or country you live in. Here in Indiana, all that is required to possess native fish is to have a valid fishing license
In Michigan the fish just had to be in season. You gotta remember people age allowed to catch and keep fish as bait, people just leave them in buckets. What’s stupid is you’re technically supposed to release he fish once it’s not in season
@@MrBeeznutz Im getting hooked on them! My rainbow shiners are doing well. Also finally got 3 pairs of X. droadrioi yesterday and 3 more pairs set to arrive today. Also scored a lone female H. Formosa at the lfs. It arrived in a shrimp shipment only about half grown and they didnt know what it was but they sold it to me for $1 so I was stoked. Once I get another tank cycled Im gonna order her some friends. I told the lfs if they get anymore mixed in the shrimp to text me so i can pick it up.
@@Rippinandfishin I set all my planted tanks up with dirt under a sand cap of about 3-4 inches. What kind of substrate did You use? Sand works much better than gravel in my experience. Other than that I just use sponge filters and try to stock the tanks on the light side.
Native fish don't get the attention they deserve. Your tanks look amazing.
That's very true,and thank you
Native tanks are so underrated 👌good job
Thanks 😊
GREAT native tank collection!
Thanks Dylan
Best native tanks I’ve seen. Learned a lot. Thanks
I'm glad you enjoyed them.
VERY COOL, ENJOYED. Thank you…from East Tennessee.
@@papajeff5486 thanks for watching buddy
Very nice and they all look extremely happy in the environments you have provided 👍
Thanks, I appreciate that.
Really love your channel man, keep it up!
Blake, this is the first I've seen of your videos. I appreciate your passion for the hobby and the depth of knowledge. I'm getting back into the hobby after several years' break. I'm starting my own fish room, trying to gradually add a tank or two now and then. I bred some cichlids over 10 years ago, scianochromis fryeri, and what they usually call electric yellows (labidochromis). They were ready easy to breed, but my favorite was a pair of nicaraguensis. The color was so gorgeous that I have never found another that matched up to their sheer beauty, especially the male, of course. Anyway, I'm looking to start up again, and your video was motivational, so thanks!
That's awesome to hear John, glad your getting back into the hobby. We livestream every Friday at 6 pm est. If you want to hang out with a bunch of fish people stop on by.
love you videos man, keep it up!!!
@@WestonDavis-i4i thanks buddy
Very beautiful fish room. You have a great collection of native American fish. Loved the video!
Thank you, I appreciate that. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
I think every fish you showed off (besides the Panfish) I had never heard of! I really want to get my hands on a black banded sunfish now
Black banded sunfish are so cool
I am glad to see the rainbow darters. We have orange throated darters in the creek by our house. I'd love to keep some, but I need to learn more first.
Great tanks and I loved to see these fish I've never seen before myself. You really watch over your fish!
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for the kind words.
Wow the collection is amazing. I love the bowfin and pickerels. The shiners and white sucker are really cool as well.
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it
@@MrBeeznutz How do you keep your
wild caught fish alive ? Catfish mainly ? cause
every catfish I've caught dies, from small to lg
& from a fresh water lake, what am I missing ?
@Raising Goldfish on a budget, what were you trying to feed them? As far as my success keeping wild fish alive I think it mostly boils down to them being able to eat a nutrious diet. Once I can get my fish to eat raw shrimp everything is golden.
As a proud Grass Pickerel owner myself I have to agree they are my favorite fish in my fish room too. It’s like having a Mini-Musky and I love it!
I couldnt agree more Dave, thanks for taking the time to watch and comment.
@@MrBeeznutz Thank You! Personally I love keeping Native North American fish and it’s Great to see other Like minded fish keepers bringing more attention to our awesome Native fish
I agree, it makes me happy everytime I here about another native fish keeper, glad to connect with you.
@@MrBeeznutz You too man!
Agreed! I have a red fin pickerel and he's about maybe 8 inches. He gets along with the tank cleaners (crayfish) and is probably the largest fish I've had, while being the easiest one to take care of!
Awesome tanks. I love the darter/shiner, perch/sunfish, and catfish tanks. Also the plants in the grass pickerel tank look awesome. You seriously have the dream tank room.
Thank you, It took a long time to get here, but I enjoy it too.
I love your nothing-fancy tanks. They look more natural than the fancy ones
Thank you
I really enjoyed seeing your native tanks, we have so many wonderful fish options on our own continent but tend to take it for granted. I want to start keeping southeastern US species in particular since it is where I live. Thanks for the inspiration!
Glad to hear you enjoyed the video, you are absolutely correct, so many cool species of fish from this country. And as far as south eastern US natives go, in my opinion that's were some of the coolest and prettiest natives in this country come from.
Impressive! Love those Rainbow Shiners and everything else. Thanks.
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment Matt.
Really cool stuff man.
Thanks buddy
Oh man! That bowfin is absolutely gorgeous! I love catching them but the way the dorsal fin moves makes me want one for real.
YES, the fin movement is amazing. I love this guy.
Cool fish room, looking good! Rocking that yard dirt👍
Thanks brother I appreciate that, I learned some of slickest moves from you, thanks for being so inspirational.
I love your fish room, Brandon -- great tour!!!
Thanks Mark, we appreciate you buddy.
Cleanest native tank room on TH-cam. Awesome stuff 🤘
Thanks I appreciate that.
Yeah, amazing view of native fish! Very impressive!
Thanks Phillip
Awesome channel! Subbed. Surprised I’m just finding you I watch this stuff all the time. I keep a northern snakehead and another tank with a warmouth and blue crabs and some other natives
Awesome man, glad you found us, sounds like youtube is finally getting us out there to some same minded people. We livestream every Friday at 6 pm est. If you wanna come hang out and see some stuff live.
@@MrBeeznutz yea absolutely love keeping fish highly rewarding and way less maintenance than people think if you do it right. I have another channel I do drone and aquarium stuff on but only like 50 subs or something
Very cool fish room. Being in MN I have had a couple different times. This has inspired me to do another...
Awesome, glad to hear that and hopefully you can stay connected with us and share yours as well.
really nice native tanks thanks for sharing 💯👍✌️
Thanks for watching and commenting Mark.
Great video, North America fish are very beautifull I have 3 Sunnys in my tank and they are amazing, all you need now is a crayfish.
I agree. They are beautiful and very cool fish. I've tried crayfish before, and they always found a way out of the tanks. They are very interesting as well. Thanks, buddy.
The bowfin is very Snakehead like, I recently lost my snakehead He hit his head on the glass lid of the tank and damaged himself. I was very sad.😢
Awesome set up you have I love the little pike ,very Cute
Thanks, little pickerel are awesome.
The unknown plant from a local waterway is probably Potamogeton sp.
I think you might be right, thanks for commenting David Noll Music
Hello! Glad Pumpkinseed and Bowfin are working out!
Yes me too, so far so good 👍
That wargill looks like a green gill lol. Very cool fish room man.
Thanks bud, I was unsure when I caught it and according to the Facebook north American native enthusiasts it's a war gill, but hey you never know, wouldn't be to far fetched to call it a Greengill, thanks for watching and taking the time to comment.
Thank you for your wonderful collection. I have a request, WarPaint Shiners. They get so big in Gatlinburg, I catch them on rod and reel.
I would live to have some warpaints, but am unable to source any. They are such a cool and colorful shiner. There are some really amazing fish in Tennessee.
That’s a dream of mine to do a native tank!
You should make your dreams become reality
Amazing room 💗
Thank you ADHD Aquatics
Amazing!!
Thank you Pedro
My favorite tank of all time is a tank with 2 pumpkin seeds I caught from from a local lake. Mine are very orange.
That's cool, they are very pretty sunfish and do quite well in aquariums. Thanks for sharing Keith.
Very nice tour. Got a 45 that wants to go native. 👍😁
Thanks Raven, do it!
Excellent setups and I like the casual commentary! I noticed the perch at about 9:25 look quite a bit darker than the yellow perch up north.
Thanks Jay, glad you enjoyed it. They are yellow perch caught here in Northern Indiana, but being in a tank with black substrate they really look quite dark most of the time.
@@MrBeeznutz th-cam.com/video/pTrAmxD550I/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=mikailbeleislek
Yo- west coast tide pool anemones, they’re gonna be big soon
Super easy, beautiful and interesting
Sounds cool Yo
When I was a kid I had my first freshwater native tank where we had blue gills and crappies
Nice, I did the same thing when I was 12 or 13, used to ride my bike down to the lake and catch a few small bluegill and keep them.
@@MrBeeznutz if I remember correctly I was around 5 or 6 when I caught a lot of crappies
That's awesome 👌
4:00 that plant looks like a species of Potamogeton (or something else in Potamogetonaceae). Check what species are present in you area, could be native, could invasive/non-native, there are plenty of both across the eastern US. If it is in Potamogetonaceae it’s in the same order (Alismatales) as cryptocoryne, as well as almost every other rosette freshwater aquarium plants (off the top of my head I can only think of a few genera that are not in this order, that form rosettes and that are represented in the home aquarium, that being water lilys and relatives of Nymphaeales and grass like plants, like hairgrass, of Poales).
Thanks for the information
Everything in that 90 gallon is delicious 😋
I dont know about eating them shiners, but the perch for sure, thanks for commenting, buddy.
@@MrBeeznutz I may have missed those, but the Crappie and yellow perch are top tier
Impressive
Thanks
Great video. An exotic temperate species that you may be able to have is the Ornate Rainbowfish, Rhadincentrus ornatus. They come from Australia around Brisbane. They’re not a tropical species, and having a cooling period is better for them. As long as the temperature doesn’t go below 60F, then they’re fine. They’re multiple color variations. They’re a small, schooling species that have an average adult size of 4.5”. There’s a few sources for them at the moment in the USA. I have the Seary’s Creek variety.
Thank you I appreciate the recommendation, currently the temperature is 55 degrees in the fishroom, but that is about as low as it gets. I feel like i could probably keep a couple select species of rainbowfish if I picked the right ones.
@@MrBeeznutz do you check the temperatures of the aquariums? If they have lids, then heat from the lights and filters will be held inside the aquariums. They may be a little warmer than 55F.
@@somedude2455 yes I check the Temps and found one today at 49.8 degrees, they all have lids.
@@MrBeeznutz ok so then rhads won’t work unless you get a heater for the aquarium at set it to 65F in winter. That won’t consume a lot of power and you can take it out when the weather is warmer.
That is true, but having a heater goes against all my morals for this fishroom, lol
Now I want North American native fish for my aquariums. I need to do more research on these fish.
Yes, knowledge is key, so many different laws and regulations on native fish depending on where you live.
That pickerel is something else
It sure is, love that fish.
Bandeds do great with bluespotted👍
Thanks for the info, think that's what I'll end up doing.
Where are you located? I am in SC and have outdoor tubs for the summer months and then hold the fish in the garage tanks in the winter. I would be interested in some small sunfish that may be able to survive the winters here outdoors. I just got some Florida Flag fish recently and will see how they do outdoors. Do you keep any outdoors? Really great video thanks for sharing
I'm in Northern Indiana, and as far as small sunfish around you, I think there are dollar sunfish, blue spotted sunfish, and black banded sunfish Should all do well for you.
That plant is eel grass, aka Tape grass (Vallisneria spiralis). Considered an invasive species and grows wild in the state of Texas. This was an aquarium plant that was mistakenly introduced to the wild.
Thanks for that
@@MrBeeznutz Anytime. I love your collection of native fish. Right now I just have one crayfish.
Crayfish are such cool creatures, I've kept them in the past and they always surprise me on how well they can escape from Aquariums, thanks for sharing.
Curly pondweed nonnative.
You should try hair grasses. Have them outside pond in Minnesota.
central mudminnow one of my all time favorite fish
They are an awesome fish, thanks for watching and taking the time to comment RJW.
Very cool fish! How or where I can get them? Would you give me few pointers? I am pretty new in keeping fish in America and want to learn more.
Yes, ask as many questions as you'd like. Where are you located?
It would be awesome if you put the name of the plants in text across the screen as you show them....I'd like to get some of those. Nice tanks by the way! The grass pickerel is pretty cool.
Thank you, I really only keep about 5 different plants. Rotalla rotundafolia, wendetii crypts, dwarf sag and some valseneria and hydrophilia coryombosa. Thanks for watching and if you have any specific questions feel free to ask away.
Thanks!
Thank you for watching 2Khuli4Schoolie
Just found your channel thanks to @abcaquaticbiotopecreations8915. Nice! I have a lot of catching up to do going through your content. I currently have two display tanks, one is a Chesapeake Bay oyster reef biotope tank, and the other one is a river tank of local fish to me from the Potomac River drainage in Maryland and VA. I only keep native tanks, no heaters, in a basement with no AC in the summer and no heat in the winter. I'm not going to reveal my next plan, which is an ambitious one, but ultimately will have an added tank for longear sunnies. I also hope to set up a tank for local bluespots. Question: do you think that bluespotted sunfish and mudminnows would get along? Because at my potential collecting spots, both are supposed to be there. Anway, nice fish room! I call my family rec room my fish room, but my wife doesn't like that LOL.
Awesome man glad to have you here and sounds like we got alot in common as far as fishkeeping goes. I think bluespots and mudminnows would do good together. I keep a dollar sunfish in with my mudminnows and neither species seems to care that the other is there. Glad you found the channel and cool that Keni directed you here. Our fishrooms sound very similar as far as have goes, or lack there of, what state are you in? We're in Northern Indiana and the Temps in our fiahroom range from 73-55 depending on the season.
@@MrBeeznutz I'm in Maryland. I think our temps are about the same downstairs. My low might be upper 50s. I love every species of fish that you're keeping. We don't have dollar sunfish here, but man are they pretty. We have pumpkinseeds. In fact, I caught and QT'd a bunch of them for the Zoo. They left my house earlier this week and I miss them already. I am fascinated by longears and bluespots. My wife's rec room will soon have tanks of them LOL.
That's awesome buddy, so cool to hear of other cold water fish keepers and north American native fish keepers, love all the sunfishes, happy we have been connected.
Nice video. I'm kind of new to the channel. Where do you get your fish from? I am thinking of setting up a 40g acrylic with Native species. I live in the foothills of NC and there's some streams, rivers and reservoirs near me. I was thinking of stocking small sunfish, flagfish and other smaller fish.
Awesome and welcome to the channel. Most of our fish have been collected by us in our local waterways here in Indiana. But you want to check your local laws and regulations before doing so. I would also recommend Jonahsaquarium.com as a great place to buy North American native fish. Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment.
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Thank you.
Hey,
Can you please make a list of all the fish in the tanks and add it to the video description?
Thanks
Sure, I'll try and get that done today
Just a guess but I think that might be narrowleaf pondweed depending on where you’re at.
Northern Indiana, and I think your right.
I just found your channel and I love all your tanks. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area. I have a 120 and a 90 that I set up in a common filtration system. I also do cold water native species in my system. I at one point I had a large mouth bass, a green sunfish, a white sturgeon and a bull head catfish. Oh yah, a red eared slider turtle. I had to shut it down when a cleaning disaster broke the front glass😢. I will be getting it back up in the near future. My biggest issue is the heat. My local temperature can get over 100 degrees for days. Would love to do mini Sunny’s next time but how do I get any. Is there a law preventing me from obtaining any of the fish that you had in this video? Is there a broker that you could refer me to?
Thanks for any help you can give me.
I feel like the laws around native fish and California are quite strict, so I would recommend you read up on that issue. But I would also recommend you get in contact with Mark over at Jonahsaquarium.com, he is very well versed in the laws from state to state and he knows what he's allowed to ship to certain states and he is a very reputable supplier of North American native fish. Glad you found the channel and welcome aboard. We live stream every Friday at 6pm. Est. If your interested in hanging out with us and other fishy minded people live from our fishroom. Have a great day.
@@MrBeeznutz
Thank you so much.
Keep “fishing”
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I dunno if relevant to you but I think you can apply to the Department of Agriculture in order to be able to collect local fish & bring them home from a National Forest [i may be wrong -- you'll have to research the specifics of the fish or whatever]. I think a breeding population of local-Cali, NON-rainbow trout to get into the hobby woudl be GREAT to preserve the species as well, and a lot of them stay small. Let me know if you make any headway snice I am in a similar boat as you not being able to bring Sunfish to Santa Barbara!!
Cool fish
Thanks Nathan
Wow those are some very cool setups! I just setup my first 55 gallon recently and am going to catch/cast net some small bluegill/sunfish to put in there. Do you think 55 gallons is adequate for 2-4 small bluegill?
Yeah I think a 55 would work for some small bluegill for a while. I would suggest getting about 4-6 little ones, the numbers will help calm aggression. If you end with 2 or 3 you will probably get a dominant fish that will harass the others.
@@MrBeeznutz Thanks for the advice! I will definitely keep that in mind when I go catch some.
I'd love to see a hog choker tank!
I've never caught one of those before.
Always enjoy seeing your guy's coldwater fishroom tanks. Everything is looking great!
One thing that occurred to me while watching that I don't think we've talked about before, what's the die back or changes in the plants when the tanks start getting colder at the end of fall and winter? Crypts melt? Anything that disappears and comes back when it gets warm again?
Thanks for the video!
That's a great question, and I haven't had any trouble with plants that were established prior to it getting cold in the fishroom. What i did experience with the 150 was I set it up during the coldest months of winter and when I grabbed crypts from other tanks they did not grow, they all melted off and never came back, I'm assuming the stress of moving them along with the cold was just to much. Thanks Dan appreciate your continued support.
@@MrBeeznutz Thanks for the reply! And yeah crypts can be troublesome with changes, especially with their "feet" (roots) getting cold.
Yes they definitely got there
Toseys cold, I should have know better but hey we're all still learning on some level, appreciate you Dan.
For a moment, I thought you were Justin gaethji(ufc fighter)😂😂😂 nice fish though
Lol, thanks Jim, I wish I was half as talented as Justin, I like that dude.
I love this! I am going to do a North American freshwater next i have a 125 that housed 4 varieties of tropheus. The Ilangi and bulu point were breeding colonies so i decided to get studid and see if i could get a brood of syndontis multipunctatus happen must have bought 4 males as i never had another tropheus fry or a baby cookoo cat either. My last troph passed a month back at the age of 21! He'd been blind for three years and got his floating pellets in a 6" diameter floating silcon ring. I would like to know where you get your fish. Are you able to catch/trap local, or will i be able to purchase stock? Thanks for the great tour.
That's amazing to hear you kept that fish for 21 years. I catch and collect most of my fish myself here in the local waterways of Indiana. Check your local laws and regulations as each state has different laws concerning collecting and possessing the local fish. For those fish you can't find or legally catch or collect you can contact Jonahsaquarium.com and purchase many North American native fish. Thanks for commenting and sharing with us.
I wish we had yellow bullheads here I've wanted to put em in a few pounds fir years there's so fun to catch send me some fry lmao
I would if they spawned, they. Are cool fish
@@MrBeeznutz they should they spawn easy I here I've seen em a couple pounds in Canada
The native plant you couldnt ID, it is Potamogeton lucens.
Thanks for the help.
Would love to get a green sunfish here in the UK, especially as they don't need a heater. Unfortunately, all of the Lepomis genus are banned here.
That's unfortunate, they are a very cool genus of fish in general. I imagine they are concerned if they get into public water ways they would hurt your native fish populations
@@MrBeeznutz That's exactly why. There are a small amount of pumpkin seed that are invasive here, but you cannot bring any in now.
You can still routinely buy goldfish, koi and grass carp that are just as bad, so it doesn't really make sense.
Are you going to put the bowfin in pool pond or build an outdoor pond, when it’s an adult
Probably going to build a large plywood tank in the fishroom when the time comes.
Did I miss a tank for bass species? Micropterus species? Any plans to add them?
No, I don't have any bass, only a small rock bass. I do plan on keeping one, possibly soon. If I do, I will catch a fry and raise it up from there.
Hey, whereabouts are you located? Getting native fish in Canada is a serious pain. Transporting live game fish is illegal. Ruling out wild caught sunfish, bass, catfish, esox family, walleye and perch, etc. I do not know about captive bred fish but getting the proper licensing to breed them in the first place would probably make them prohibitively expensive.
I can,however, catch and keep baitfish. I think a madtom would be really cool if I could manage to catch one.
I'm in Northern Indiana in the US. That sucks that you can't even transport live fish, but it is what is is. But if you can keep baitfish I'm sure you can find some cool fish if you net around. I wonder if there are sculp8n up there? Some really cool small bait fish.
What is the brand name of the black blasting sand you put in your first aquarium you show with sunfish.
Black Diamond Abrasive Products
Where did you get the bowfin? I have been searching everywhere.
I bought it from Jonahsaquarium.com, a few years back, if you get in contact with Mark over there, he might be able to get you one in the spring. About the only time you can find them is in the spring when they breed and people catch the fry when they're swimming in a fry ball. They are surprisingly hard to catch at a small size for some reason.
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Thanks for watching Robert
@coldwateraquatics where do you buy your fish?
We catch most of our fish ourselves, but if I buy fish from someone, it's Jonahsaquarium.com .
2:46 How did you get a western mosquitofish from Florida?
@@TheFishingNomad from a friend in Florida.
@@MrBeeznutz What I mean is, western mosquitofish aren't found in Florida. Also, to my knowledge, there has never been any instances of melanism found in western mosquitofish, only eastern. I'm pretty sure yours is an eastern.
@@TheFishingNomad ok, maybe it was an eastern, thanks for the clarification.
why no black basses? Largemouth smallie or kentucky bass make just as cool pets as the pickrel
I would love to raise up a smaller bass from down south. I'll probably raise up a largemouth from a fry this year, atleast that was my plan.
How do you not have a largemouth?
I should, I'm slacking, 😆 it's been something I've been thinking about.
I know it’s a long shot that you’ll see this, but my biggest white whale is a yellow bullhead tank. Everywhere online says they can’t be kept in tanks, I see you have three in that tank in this video, and it’s a year later, how are they doing now?
They're doing great, I keep 3 of them in a planted 75. Here's a video from about a month ago.th-cam.com/users/shorts7xN2R1Te1gc?si=HQBDGMS042JckU65
@@MrBeeznutz thanks for the response! I somehow missed that video when I was looking. Thank you!
@l_crow1575 You're very welcome. Feel free to ask any questions you may have at any time
How big is the rainbow shiner tank?
It's a 20 long
Potamoheton sp. Shuld check what species live in your aeria, oweral allmost cosmopolitan genus
Thanks I'll look into that, I believe there's a few species of pond weed around here
Not an expert but you’re “War-gill” looks to me like a Lepomis punctatus (spotted sunfish) and your green sunfish looks like bluegill x green sunfish.
Thanks, as far as the spotted sunfish goes those are native to Southeast US and this guy was caught by us here in Northern Indiana. Appreciate you coming by the channel and taking the time to comment.
@@MrBeeznutz my bad, it has a related species that was separated from the spotted sunfish, know as Lepomis miniatus (red spotted sunfish) which at its northern most native range is ironically northern Indiana according to the USGS
maybe it’s a female of that species?
@@trueHerpnerd I'm pretty confident it's a hybrid between a bluegill and either a warmouth or green sunfish but who really knows. Been in this area my whole life and never caught any sunfish besides bluegill, pumpkinseeds, red ears, green sunfish and warmouth. But they could also be elusive. Either way glad to have you here.
What temp does it get down to for the coldest in your tanks ?
55 degrees during the coldest winter months.
Do you heat the room?
Nope.
Years ago banded sunfish we’re the poor man’s cichlid
That makes all the sense in the world, thanks for sharing John.
Are they the same care as freshwater fish? As in temperature wise, water changes, using water conditioners? etc?
Absolutely the same just lower metabolism due to the lower temperature.
@@MrBeeznutz Do they require heaters?
@SwagYaj no, they do not require heaters
That's jungle val not dwarf sagittaria
Yeah, It's been questioned multiple times, all I know for a fact is that when I bought it at a local swap it was labeled as dwarf sag. So yeah🤷♂️
@@MrBeeznutz definitely jungle vale it grows a lot taller and like a weed
I thought Native fish were illegal to keep in an aquarium
The laws are different depending on which state or country you live in. Here in Indiana, all that is required to possess native fish is to have a valid fishing license
In Michigan the fish just had to be in season. You gotta remember people age allowed to catch and keep fish as bait, people just leave them in buckets. What’s stupid is you’re technically supposed to release he fish once it’s not in season
Why are some of these not in the hobby?
There's very few in the hobby, hopefully that changes as time goes on.
i do the same but yours is much more impressive lol
Hey you gotta start somewhere, I love hearing about people keeping natives, thanks for sharing birdman519.
@@MrBeeznutz Im getting hooked on them! My rainbow shiners are doing well. Also finally got 3 pairs of X. droadrioi yesterday and 3 more pairs set to arrive today.
Also scored a lone female H. Formosa at the lfs. It arrived in a shrimp shipment only about half grown and they didnt know what it was but they sold it to me for $1 so I was stoked. Once I get another tank cycled Im gonna order her some friends. I told the lfs if they get anymore mixed in the shrimp to text me so i can pick it up.
how do you keep the water so clear
The live plants take care of that.
@@MrBeeznutz when i had real plants in my native tank it got supper dirty so i had to buy some iv ray filter
@@Rippinandfishin I set all my planted tanks up with dirt under a sand cap of about 3-4 inches. What kind of substrate did You use? Sand works much better than gravel in my experience. Other than that I just use sponge filters and try to stock the tanks on the light side.
@@MrBeeznutz I use sand
What size tank? What fish how many and what size fish?
where do u get the 150 gal
It was originally an oceanic 150 I found on marketplace.
@@MrBeeznutz like eBay
@@fishyiscute Facebook marketplace, it's like Craigslist
4 years is not at all old for an aquarium really
I suppose you're right, but after a few years of some big fish disturbing the substrate, it seemed to take its toll.
You need pygmy sunfish
They've crossed my mind, but II seem to be heading towards the larger natives instead of the smaller ones.
@@MrBeeznutz get a pair and throw them in a 2 gallon jar for a desk tank, heard that people get them breeding in gallon tanks
They all need to be free to live out there in the wild. YOU. Are bothering them at all give are little frainds. There freedom.
It's illegal to reintroduce a captive fish back into the wild once it's been in captivity in my state. I get your point, though.