No thank you! I love talking about natives they are my favorite.
Minnows/Shiners/Dace: (I'm not sure about purchase on all of these, but depending on where you live, you'll be able to catch most of them)
Rainbow Shiner
Red Shiner
Blackside Dace
Redbelly Dace (always available and super cool IMO)
Blackstripe Topminnow (not colorful but definitely a neat top dweller)
Cardinal Shiner (BEAUTIFUL, but only lives near Arkansas and Oklahoma and surrounding states)
Tennessee Shiner (Also beautiful but in Tennessee only)
Spotfin Shiner (really cool when breeding, otherwise a super metallic shiner silver which I think is still cool)
Bluefin Killifish
Golden Topminnow
Sunfish:
Orangespotted (my favorite, it's my profile picture)
Bluespotted
Blackbanded
Possibly a Western Dollar or Northern Longear (I said possibly cause they are really aggressive)
Green Sunfish (if you're willing for it to be just him and the madtoms... he will eat the shiners) they are not the most colorful (there are exceptions however!!! like mine) but have personalities that IMO are just as great and sometimes surpass cichlids.