Anyone keeping pygmy sunfish?

[crash83]

If my memory serves they were scaly sand darters, it has been some many years since I went darter collecting though. I recommend overlooking Dan Johnson's website of local Houston darters, he usually lists collection points if you are searching for specific species. Spring Creek @ Riley-Fuzzel is a great site and Peach Creek @ the entrance to Roman Forest subdivision yielded tons a few years ago and the water is shallow and crystal clear.

Right down the street from me and my best collecting site..however no pygmy sunfish there.

[mnemenoi]

The pygmy sunfish I colllect out of the drainage ditches around Sawdust, they are everywhere

[crash83]

Man what are you using to catch them?
I've been trying to catch them and some darters and have had no luck.

[eklikewhoa]

when I went with mnemenoi we used a dip net and just netted under all the foliage that grows along the bank. Thats how I caught all the ones I did.

[crash83]

Ok i'll give that a try ...we normally use a dip net and a siene[sp?].

[decal]

I had a hard time finding them around Lake Sheldon until I finally got into them one day... and then I started catching them all the time. The weedier it is the better. Still water, lotsa hornwort = money.

Darters are a lot harder in my experience. The places mnemenoi have suggested are solid for dusky darters though. Seine might work, I've had a lot of luck just sticking my dipnet downstream of rocks, tree roots or plants in moving water and then kicking them from upstream. They're pretty hardy too, just don't stick them in deep aquariums without much surface agitation