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Cool aquariums.

After I lost all of my tropical fish after the extended power outage following Super-storm Sandy, I decided to only buy cold-tolerant fish. I caught a bunch of one inch-long Pumkinseed sunfish and added them to the aquarium. The sunfish will sometimes eat floating pellets, but their favorite foods are earthworms and small pieces of shrimp.

Sunfish are definitely the most aggresive, nastiest fish I ever kept. They chase each other around constantly until they figure out who is the weakest one. Then they harass and beat-up that one weak fish mercilessly. The beat-up fish would turn black and hide in the rocks. Every time he poked his head out to eat, he would be in for another beaing.

Eventually I removed the fish that was getting beat-up. The sunfish then started fighting until they selected another fish to beat-up.

One-by-one I kept removing the fish that was getting beat up. I am now down to ONE Pumkinseed Sunfish.

The wood and rocks were getting kind of skuzzy, so I added a Chinese Algae Eater to keep the tank clean. So far, this arangement seems to be working.

I'll post some pics after I get home.