florida Tank?

Elassoma okeefenokee (Pygmy sunfish) IF you dont have one get one.. lol
Heterandria Formosa (least killiefish)
Jordanella floridae (flag fish)
Lucania goodie (bluefin Killie)
Fundulus chrysotus (golden topminnow)
Gambusia Affinis holbrooki (Mosquito Fish)
how is that for a list of scientific names. I dont know the madtom but this pretty much what you have in your tanks. And i am soooo jealous. I had a plan on the type of tanks i want.. endlers and merry widows, which i just got!!! whoo hooo. But i have yet to set up my tank for the Formosa and Elassoma. grrr. i gotta order them first. But soon, yes very soon i shall have my florida tank and then next the world. BWWAAHAAHAHAHAHA ahemm.. ok. i am fine now.
As for live food.. i would try some daphina. A place you can get them is
http://www.aquaculturestore.com/
the shop is located at St. Augustine.
jim
 
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Thanks for the info Jim ;) ChilDawg gave me some good leads on what the madtom may be. Here are the scientific names he gave me in a seperate thread:
Here are the Maddies of FL:
Tadpole (Notorus gyrinus)
Speckled (N. leptacanthus)
Black--Panhandle-dweller (N. funebris)

So far what I've found for my bass would be Micropterus
Salmoides floridanus (subspicies of FL with 14 abdominal vertebrae)

And then theres that mystery 'shiner' thats still in there that was mentioned way back in this thread. Someone suggested that it was a blacknosed shiner.. but to tell you the truth, it looks JUST like the fish in the homepage for AquariaCentral.com! (the one right next to the freshwater info. I'll look into that more :)
 
Vette-
that fish on the front page looks to be a SAE. The ones you are thinking are not. But what you could do is ask your local DNR. They may be able to help you. Unless someone else can help you. Maybe spike may have a lead on this fish.
jim
 
This one? That's an SAE, I think...
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Yup, that one! Its a siamese algae eater, correct? I'll take a few more pics and post them in a moment. He was caught in the SAME location as the madtom... are they natives to FL? I'd never caught one before.
>flash flash< and here's the pics:

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They were taken as he was sucking pieces of algae off the glass where my CO2 is injected. Coincidence?

Edit: After seaching for pics... he's not a SAE.. he looks more like the False SAE's ... but still not quite the same.. and blacknosed shiners are a bit different too, mostly the anal fin.. this ones compleatly triangular, the drawing isnt. The seach goes on!
 
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