Native fish don't get the attention they deserve. Your tanks look amazing.

Native tanks are so underrated 👌good job

Very nice and they all look extremely happy in the environments you have provided 👍

Best native tanks I’ve seen. Learned a lot. Thanks

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!

VERY COOL, ENJOYED. Thank you…from East Tennessee.

I love your nothing-fancy tanks. They look more natural than the fancy ones

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

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.

Wow the collection is amazing. I love the bowfin and pickerels. The shiners and white sucker are really cool as well.

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!

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!

Great tanks and I loved to see these fish I've never seen before myself. You really watch over your fish!

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.

Impressive! Love those Rainbow Shiners and everything else. Thanks.

I love your fish room, Brandon -- great tour!!!

The unknown plant from a local waterway is probably Potamogeton sp.

Oh man! That bowfin is absolutely gorgeous! I love catching them but the way the dorsal fin moves makes me want one for real.

Yeah, amazing view of native fish! Very impressive!

Cool fish room, looking good! Rocking that yard dirt👍

Very cool fish room. Being in MN I have had a couple different times. This has inspired me to do another...

really nice native tanks thanks for sharing 💯👍✌️

Cleanest native tank room on KZfaq. Awesome stuff 🤘

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

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

Really cool stuff man.

Amazing room 💗

Amazing!!

Hello! Glad Pumpkinseed and Bowfin are working out!

My favorite tank of all time is a tank with 2 pumpkin seeds I caught from from a local lake. Mine are very orange.

Very nice tour. Got a 45 that wants to go native. 👍😁

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.

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.

That wargill looks like a green gill lol. Very cool fish room man.

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).

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.

Bandeds do great with bluespotted👍

Now I want North American native fish for my aquariums. I need to do more research on these fish.

Thanks!

Lovely

That’s a dream of mine to do a native tank!

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.

Yo- west coast tide pool anemones, they’re gonna be big soon Super easy, beautiful and interesting

When I was a kid I had my first freshwater native tank where we had blue gills and crappies

Everything in that 90 gallon is delicious 😋

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!

central mudminnow one of my all time favorite fish

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.

Impressive

That pickerel is something else

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.

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.

Cool fish

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

Hey, Can you please make a list of all the fish in the tanks and add it to the video description? Thanks

The native plant you couldnt ID, it is Potamogeton lucens.

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.

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.

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.

I'd love to see a hog choker tank!

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What is the brand name of the black blasting sand you put in your first aquarium you show with sunfish.

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.

For a moment, I thought you were Justin gaethji(ufc fighter)😂😂😂 nice fish though

What temp does it get down to for the coldest in your tanks ?

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?

Are you going to put the bowfin in pool pond or build an outdoor pond, when it’s an adult

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.

Did I miss a tank for bass species? Micropterus species? Any plans to add them?

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

@coldwateraquatics where do you buy your fish?

Where did you get the bowfin? I have been searching everywhere.

Are they the same care as freshwater fish? As in temperature wise, water changes, using water conditioners? etc?

How big is the rainbow shiner tank?

How do you not have a largemouth?

I have a home made tank I wanna start some native fish but I have no idea where to get any I don't wanna take any out of my near by lakes cuz they love their natural environment do you know where I maybe able to find breeders?

Potamoheton sp. Shuld check what species live in your aeria, oweral allmost cosmopolitan genus

why no black basses? Largemouth smallie or kentucky bass make just as cool pets as the pickrel

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?

Years ago banded sunfish we’re the poor man’s cichlid

Do you heat the room?

where do u get the 150 gal

how do you keep the water so clear

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.

Why are some of these not in the hobby?

i do the same but yours is much more impressive lol

I thought Native fish were illegal to keep in an aquarium

That's jungle val not dwarf sagittaria

4 years is not at all old for an aquarium really

You need pygmy sunfish

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.