Re: NANFA-L-- ID of Sunfish and Taking Pictures

Al G Eaton (sege7_2000-in-yahoo.com)
Mon, 16 Jan 2006 04:50:23 -0800 (PST)

1. Try Peterson's field guide to north american fish.

2. Feed the fish and while they are occuppied eating,
snap their pictures or make a blind with a black piece
of paper leaving an access holes for the lens and
flash to poke through.

Klaus


--- deanmarkley-in-comcast.net wrote:

> Hello all! I am in need of help identifying some
> sunfish I have in my 110 gal tank. I know I have a
> single pumpkinseed. I also four others that seem to
> resemble a pumpkinseed but also have other traits
> that indicate maybe redbreast, redear or outside
> chance a bluegill. The fish are young, being about
> 7-8 months and are about 3 inches long. The
> pumpkinseed came from the Chiques Creek, a tributary
> of the Susquehanna here in Lancaster County. The
> other four came from Grubb Lake, a 6 acre flooded
> open pit iron ore mine here also.
>
> So, my questions are:
>
> 1. What are some good sources for identifying
> these?
>
> 2. How the heck do you take a good picture of these
> nosy fish? I've been trying with my Nikon Coolpix
> 4600 but they keep coming nose on to the camera.
>
> 3. Assuming I can get pics, where can I post them
> for people to see?
>
> Dean
> --
> Dean A. Markley
>
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