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22 responses to “45 mins From Chicago We Caught All These Beautiful Native Fish! Fish Collecting w/ Johnathon Butkus”
I would like to set up the aquarium (first in decades) I’m currently planning with native fish but am severely disabled…are there folks who breed and sell them?
Beautiful, makes me wonder what is in my beautiful little river
This is a great video, i love the idea of setting up a wild fish aquarium, ive seen wee minnow type fish in the ponds and lochs in my area of Scotland, it would be cool to have a few in a tank, cheers from Fife 🏴
bc i live in cali
I love the sculpin… so are they a type of goby im guessing, very cool my gf loves rainbow shiners, and i love warmouth not just native to ohio but every time i catch one, their colorations are so crazy and different from each other and are a super cool looking fish…maybe one day ill do a biotope setup with small warmouth, and maybe a baby bowfin, time will tell 🙏 great content my friend!
Alex thanks for another great video, if I wanted to go collecting locally where would I get started? Tips for someone who has never gone collecting before? Do you have like a beginners guide I may have missed? 💜
Fast question for yah ,when do I start feeding beta fry at day 4 ish ? Can I leave the father in after I start feeding? I seen most people say take him out at day 4 ! But dexter world video said day 10 take him out !
Native fish can be some of the most hardly fish to keep. It's very likely that your water will be perfect because that is what they are already living in it. I also think if more people collected their own aquarium fish, they would be more likely to want to conserve the waterways.
Thank you Aex I really enjoy your out and about footage 🤗💖
I think my favorite northern creek fish is the red dace. The darters and sticklebacks are cool too!
love this one Alex!
What fun!! The turquoise on that rainbow darter and the pattern on the johnny… 😍 My boyfriend and I have talked about collecting fish while scuba diving, but I never thought about doing a PNW natives tank. 🤔 I am surrounded by streams and ponds; time to research some local species!! 🤓
Hi, sent you an email can you see it?
Very cool. Johnathan is a really nice guy.
It's nice to see this vid again without technical issues, bunch of super pretty fish, puctures really don't do most of them justice ^^
Two fish near the end you were wondering about, the nice olive one and those smaller ones you had a small group of, I could definitely be wrong but those look like minnows imo. Please do tell if you figure it out though because they look like a young crappie minnow and some wild type rosy minnows, first is a common baitfish here where I am in Texas and latter is a common live feeder if they are them, so already available comercial bred if you know where to look, but crappie minnows are around 4in max so bigger tank schoolers. Super cute though, all of these guys, and most of the ones you saw are pretty energetic species, which is always fun to see them when they're relaxed and just vibing or messing around lol
so glad to see the full version of this! thanks for the re-release 😀
Wish I could get some rainbow darters for my 45g! Beautiful fish!
That was a really cool video man! You know your stuff, that's for sure! The other dude sounded really knowledgeable as well. Well done.
Thanks for reshareing nice to see these fish
Love this type of content!!
I had two native aquariums when I lived in Wisconsin. My favorite native fish is the Iowa Darter. Gorgeous and intelligent.
I've got some blue gill from here in Round Rock, TX and Austin.