Florida freshwater wild fish

[ODPILOT]

I mentioned several weeks ago I was going to start a new freshwater tank with some local South Florida native fish. I got these from near the edge of a local canal. They are very young and I believe they are "mosquito larvae minnows". These small minnows have a great appetite. They eat frozen baby brine shrimp and -- surprisingly -- Tetramin flakes as well.
Not very interesting to look at -- we'll see how big they get -- they are supposedly live bearers. Something different for a change.

 

[WeedCali]

Looks like Gambusia to me.

 

[ODPILOT]

Same thing: Gambusia = Mosquito Fish -- and are one of the most common fish on the planet.

 

[Mgamer20o0]

there are a ton of cool native fish in fl heck there are a ton of non native fish there too

 

[Rollinondubz200]

those fish will not get to much bigger..im in southwest fl. ive caught jewel cichlids, oscars, mollys , mayhan and midas cichlids, tons of ghost shrimp, guppies.plus some i dunno what they were

 

[ODPILOT]

Further out in the water, I saw atleast a couple of different types of cichlids -- too far for me to go -- the little ones near the shore seemed to be mostly these Mosquito Minnows.

 

[RiVerfishgirl]

Not surprising that they'll eat flake food. I've caught several before and they will eat nearly anything, just like the captive bred ones.

There are a ton of interesting north american natives. The best bet is to wade out into the water with a dip net, or use a sein to find them. Also try netting in the substrate right along the shoreline since a lot of fish will hide in leaves and plants.