Coldwater
Fish
Coldwater Fish Already on This Site
These fish are already on the site somewhere else.
We will tell you where they are located on this site.
Zebra, Leapord, Pearl, and giant danios, cyprinids
All goldfish, cyprinids
Hillstream loaches, cyprinids
Black Skirt Tetras, characins
Rosy Reds, cyprinids
High Fin Marble Sharks, cyprinids
Native Fish
These fish can be found in your own backyard (if you have a pond or stream). They like room temperature and neutral water. Most sunfish get a little less than a foot long and are good for large coldwater tanks. Smaller sunfish include the 4 in. blue spotted, orange spotted and black banded sunfish, and the 2 in. pygmy sunfish. The predatory largemouth bass gets about 2 feet long, so it is bad for the average home aquarium. All darter species stay smaller than 5 in. and are great for small to medium sized aquariums. Perch max out at about a foot long and are very pretty for a native fish. Most native minnows are about 6 in long and make a good schooling fish for a decent size tank. The creek chub has the same requirements as most minnows, except that it needs a big tank because it can get 1 foot long. Madtom catfish are great for small aquaria because they only get 5 in. long. Bullhead catfish get about a foot long. Native killifish will be on the killifish section of this site.
