Wild Sailfin Mollies

Also - we'll most likely be selling/giving away the fry from the Mollys because we don't have a ton of extra fish room, and unfortunately we don't have the capability of acquiring a new tank at the moment.

So once I find out the legality I'll see if we can't arrange some deliveries! :)
 
As far as I know, Florida law is that if it was legal to catch them it is legal to keep them.

If you had a permit and fishing was allowed then the main concern would be if there were any limits. But as SubRosa said, they are probably considered baitfish so I doubt you would have hit any limits on them.


The shrimp would depend on what they look like. Ghost shrimp probably though? Those things are just about everywhere water exists.
 
If they were crawling around his driftwood as in like miniature adults, then not ghost shrimp, ghost offspring going through floating larval stage.
 
:) way cool!

For your own sake. You really should check on the legal stuff with them. The Fish and Game people don't mess around, when you are messing with their animals.
If you have a fishing license, you probably have a book, that will have this in there somewhere.
It's been a few years since I last bought one, but thats how it worked back then.

Still cool! though. : )
 
I have several mollies, (i had to buy mine :-( ) I'd love to see some pics of "wild" mollies. Please post some as soon as you can. Thanks.
 
Sorry, I just found the pics. They are beautiful. You're lucky. I can't seem to find and thing but regular mollies around here. I even went to That Fish Place, which is a HUGE local (and on the web) fish store near me. All they had was the standard fin, black, white, yellow and dalmation mollies. I was fortunate to find 2 black and yellow (golden panda) mollies at a petsmart about 30 miles from here and they had babies. Now I have about 30 panda mollie fry in a 10 gallon breeder tank. I'm not really sure what to do with all of them. I tried the local pet shops and no one wants them. I am willing to give them away to good homes, I'm just not sure how to do it. If anyone has any suggestion, any help would be greatly appreciated. I live in south central PA. Thanks.
 
Sailfin mollys are apparently classified as baitfish. There are legal ways of catching them, but since we used nets that were less than four feet we're ok! :)

There are also no limits as we intended to catch them as aquaculture for aquaria. So as long as we're licensed, we're good. Yay!
 
trigiver01 said:
I don't know how common they are to north/central florida springs, but my wife and I were enjoying a day out today and found schools of sailfin mollies in the spring we were visiting. We managed to catch five and brought them home. They're acclimating well to their new environment. I hope to get a few good pictures of them when they settle in and let their colors fly.

One has a huge dorsal fin (wider than the fish's body) that's lined with gold, and his tail is a brilliant sky blue. His side scales are speckled with black and gold, but his "base color" is probably silver. He's probably a good 4" long.

We got another smaller one with the sky blue tail, but his body colors aren't developed yet.

The other three are silver with black specks on their sides. I hope to show them off soon!
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What spring did you find them in? I live near ponce de leon springs and we go there all the time, will keep an eye out
 
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