Florida Flagfish and Other Native Fish - Collecting Wild Fish In Florida

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Collecting Wild Fish in Florida is quickly becoming one of my favorite ways to enjoy the fish keeping hobby. On this collecting trip a few months back, Kevin from Aquascaping Supply and I caught Florida flagfish, least killifish, golden topminnows, crayfish, and more. The fish we kept are doing well and I'll have an update soon.
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@WildFishTanks 5 лет назад

Collecting Wild Fish with Cory from Aquarium Co-op: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UTs8Es1IytM.html

@Orlandohaschanged 5 лет назад

Such a great lil spot! Great video! Thanks for coming out and all the support for the shop! We cant grow our dream without sharing in yours!!! So blessed to be in an area with such amazing Breeders/Keepers/Hobbyists!!! Its time to set up the FL Native tank at the shop~!!

@WildFishTanks 5 лет назад

That would be cool if you guys had a native tank, dooo it! Haha

@Jpm4231 3 года назад

I find myself watching your net each time as if I were there looking to see what "we" got. Thanks.

@magstheonlyone 5 лет назад

I love this type of videos, I used to do this when I was a kid and getting all excited about it was great. Still do it now and then for some wild guppies

@WildFishTanks 5 лет назад

Same here. Don’t remember this many species when I was a kid though. Glad you enjoyed, good luck on your next time out!

@ludokerfluffle6232 2 года назад

The nets. Where did you get the nets?

@deborahcheney432 4 года назад

I would love to go on a collecting trip with you guys!!

@madfishdiva 5 лет назад

Really nice native fish.

@COOPERSCICHILDS 2 года назад

Awesome episode

@WildFishTanks 2 года назад

Thanks for checking it out

@DanielGonzalez-gd3dx 5 лет назад

Wow very nice. The flag fish look like they are home in that tank.

@WildFishTanks 5 лет назад

Yeah they have settled in nicely. No breeding activity yet but I took the panda corys out because they were a little boisterous so it is just a flagfish species only tank now

@DanielGonzalez-gd3dx 5 лет назад

Wild Fish Tanks oh ok hopefully they start breeding for you. That will be be a cool video in the futher

@richardprofit6363 4 года назад

Those are (unfortunately) tilapia beds..bass won't bed that close too shore or that shallow, and their beds don't have those pushed up edges..

@drockingfish 5 лет назад

your so lucky you get to collect fish!!

@richardprofit6363 4 года назад

Hey, guys..I've been keeping wild Florida fish for a while - thought I'd share a few things that are hopefully helpful..good move putting the flagfish in the tank with algae, also least killifish and sailfin mollies are great algae eaters..least killifish eat MAINLY algae - they spend all day at it and will only take a few pecks at flake food (basically no cost fish that are mellow and don't bother any other species)..sailfin mollies eat algae all day, too; but are omnivorous and will stop eating algae to eat some fish food or worms or even grass shrimp...I keep a good number of grass shrimp in my tanks because they do some cleanup , and golden topminnows will chase and kill them , at which point the flagfish, mollies, gambusias, bluefin killifish and golden topminnows all join in pecking them apart ..all those species also like to eat fry, so if you're trying to breed you know what that means..( I have all these species in the same tank, so any fry born are just live food) ..too many male golden topminnows usually results in the smaller male(s) getting chased by the bigger ones pretty vigorously...mature male sailfin mollies are very beautiful (don't know if you're familiar with them yet - they have irridescent green tails, orange chests, and LARGE spotted dorsal fin with orange fringe)..if you get mollies, get 3 or 4 females to 1 male - the males spend a LOT of their time trying to impregnate the females , and will harass a female so much she can't eat if there aren't others to divide the male's time.."baby" bluegill (like the one you caught) and the species of small sunfish (caught 2 types here in east central Fla) seem to only want live food..the bluegill is fairly active but the small sunfish species will spend almost all their time frozen in some dark spot - they're apparently ambush predators ..they're pretty but I don't keep them anymore..another idea: about once a week I go to a nearby lake and collect duckweed and water lettuce in a bucket or 2, I then replace the same that's in the tank with the fresh from the lake plants; within minutes the fish will be up in the roots feeding on the little critters and whatnot that are there..free natural food, they seem to like it..have fun out there!

@1toastandjam1 Год назад

I’m in Orlando am interested in where you go in central Florida to catch fish? I found a few places to check out but more interested on the east side of town any specific locations would be greatly appreciated thank you.

@NYGOLD 5 лет назад

Looks like so much fun!! You're getting good at identifying local fish. Great video!

@WildFishTanks 5 лет назад

Trying. It’s been a lot of fun getting out there and learning the different ones

@thefishylife6823 5 лет назад

Gambusia holbrooki...the dalmatian gambusia!!! Awesome score and the flagfish are amazing!!! I just went collecting the other day and scored a bunch of fundulus Escambiae!! I saw you caught a Fundulus species also, I still have yet to get the pygmy sunfish but I'm going to keep trying, I'll be collecting in Santa Rosa county next week

@WildFishTanks 5 лет назад

Best of luck! My friend and I caught our first Pygmy sunfish yesterday, a female. Got to go back and try for some males soon. Nice score with the fundulus! I’m still a novice especially when it comes to them but I have a nice pair of fundulus chrysotus that I’m going to try to spawn.

@thefishylife6823 5 лет назад

@@WildFishTanks yeah Fundulus are cool group of fish commonly known as "star-head top-minnows" , great video keep them rolling out!!!

@Jpm4231 3 года назад

In Gambusia sp. it appears the melanotic (spotted ) state is a sex-linked genetic variant.

@tropicalfreshwaterabodes8997 5 лет назад

Sweet, Now that would be fun!

@WildFishTanks 5 лет назад

Depending on where you live, there may be some cool stuff you don’t even know about

@nirmaldas2879 5 лет назад

Excellent job, appreciated sir

@WildFishTanks 5 лет назад

thanks for watching Nirmal, glad you enjoyed

@Jordan-hw9yt 4 года назад

Love your videos. Great spots near me in Bradenton area for different species if your ever in the area!

@scotmckittrick7059 3 года назад

I will be in Cape Coral in a couple months. Any experience finding Florida Flag Fish there?

@TheFishingNomad Год назад

3:19 It's a regular eastern mosquitofish (gambusia holbrooki) that has melanism (a genetic mutation).

@FishmanEricRussell 5 лет назад

Cool! Would love to be able to do that

@salvalenti5870 5 лет назад

i fell in love with your blue fin killies and spent about a week to two weeks trying to get a pair in the stream near my house and i finally got them and the reds and blues are so awesome haha

@WildFishTanks 5 лет назад

Congrats Sal!! I haven’t bred them yet, been keeping them in a native only 55 gallon with a few other species I’ve collected. My friend David got a pair of his to breed in a 10 gallon full of java moss though. The males really pop!

@salvalenti5870 5 лет назад

@@WildFishTanks yea i have them in with some real small wild caught jewel cichlids and they are super active

@catfishcave379 5 лет назад

Keep us updated on the algae control. Great video.

@WildFishTanks 5 лет назад

I’ll have an update in next few weeks but the short version is they devoured it all and then most of the plants lol. I also moved the pandas cories out after a week or so because they flagfish were too feisty

@aquaman269 5 лет назад

I have a native tank that I’m looking to add some flag fish soon!!! Keep the videos coming 💪

@WildFishTanks 5 лет назад

They are cool but I did ended up taking the panda cories out because they can become feisty. I’m setting up a 55 gallon native tank and have a few juveniles but may take them out when they get larger.

@LeeDfined Год назад

Are they easy to acclimate from the wild to aquariums

@DavidRodriguez-jt1ns 5 лет назад

Female flagfish have a black spot at the rear of the dorsal fin, and on your crayfish if the claws are long and narrow they are males, if the claws are chunky looking they are female.

@WildFishTanks 5 лет назад

Awesome, thank you for the info David!

@ZeethK92 5 лет назад

How are the flagfish with those corys? I heard that they can be pretty aggressive.

@WildFishTanks 5 лет назад

They were pretty aggressive. I ended up moving out the panda Corydoras an now the flagfish are in there all by themselves

@ZeethK92 5 лет назад

@@WildFishTanks that's to bad. They are some good looking fish though.

@heavenboundfarm2159 4 года назад

You need to get some and sell love to have some very beautiful

@citizentrucker 5 лет назад

Man you have way better luck finding Formosas then i do lol love them little suckers. Gambusia, bluefin killi, and jewels are what i keep pullin out lol south miami though i gotta go more towards the everglades to try

@WildFishTanks 5 лет назад

In most spots they are usually the second most common species to gambusia. I haven’t seen any jewels up this way although my friend put in Tampa has caught a ton and I heard they are just south of Orlando too

@shawnbrown3124 2 года назад

@wildfishtanks do you all ship?

@kurtschnepf9452 5 лет назад

I am in Melbourne fl. Get grass shrimp there do you get them where you are?

@4wtsage 3 года назад

Do you do meat an greets at all would love to take my son on one of your outings

@jaythefishman41 5 лет назад

The "spotted" gambusia are a melanistic strain of the same species. They are not "super" males, as they have to fight to mate just as much as the others. The great majority of melanism appears in males. In some areas you will find high populations of the strain. In others, only one or two for every one to two hundred males.

@WildFishTanks 5 лет назад

Sweet, thanks for the info Jay!

@Cgraseck 5 лет назад

Florida has over 50 species or crayfish. Don’t feel bad about not knowing which one you encountered. 🧐cheers, Chris

@WildFishTanks 5 лет назад

I’m still trying to learn all of the fish species lol. I ordered some platinum medaka (this time juveniles) to try out also. Still have the couple gold I hatched out too

@Cgraseck 5 лет назад

Good luck with the platinums! I had some Myuki fry earlier this year but their heater was leaking voltage and they all died before I figured out what was wrong. Love the Fundulus crysotus by the way. I’d like to see you put a melanistic pair up on GetGills.

@richardprofit6363 4 года назад

One more thing..watch those crawdads! They grow FAST, and they will catch fish..

@jaythefishman41 5 лет назад

Female flagfish has black/white spot on lower rear part of the dorsal fin and less color than male.

@dugangant 4 года назад

Where do you get your dip nets at?

@WildFishTanks 4 года назад

It’s called “the perfect dip net” by jonahs aquarium

@SunfishForFish 5 лет назад

You need to start a brim tank especially them sunfish man vary cool fish too keep

@WildFishTanks 5 лет назад

They are beautiful but I would need a decent size space to keep them. Maybe one day but I released those

@SunfishForFish 5 лет назад

@@WildFishTanks yep I just have one green sunfish in a 75 gal with a common pleco and a Jack Dempsey fixing to get at 120 Lol they are getting bigger

@alexspoficial788 5 лет назад

👍

@oscararellano4152 2 года назад

I watch too much of videos like this I get convinced too much

@Between_the_numbers 2 года назад

I’ve ordered from Kevin before via Offer up

@Suislide16 5 лет назад

What's a gambugia and what's the problem with them ? Haha

@WildFishTanks 5 лет назад

Nothing really wrong with them they are just very common (also called mosquito fish because they eat mosquito larvae). They aren’t too colorful either so usually they are all just released right away.

@Suislide16 5 лет назад

@@WildFishTanks thanks for the info, I heard it in many other videos and wasn't familiar with it... Though im familiar with the popular name mosquito fish... Good videos by the way, really cool to see aquarium fish in the wild...

@Xray2j 5 лет назад

DUDE, you ok?

@jhickox 2 года назад

Melanistic male gambusia

@drewscott7883 5 лет назад

Second?

@WildFishTanks 5 лет назад

Can confirm

@حسنالبحراني-غ3د 5 лет назад

هل تتكلم العربية لدي بعض الأسئلة

@FrankAndrews 7 месяцев назад

shouldn't touch them with bare hands, that can kill them.

@jasonmcguire358 Год назад

HA I think you had a red spotted sunfish it is not native to Florida.

@chrisp4769 5 лет назад

1st

@WildFishTanks 5 лет назад

Quick on the draw!

@dominiclloyd1716 5 лет назад

so frustrating seeing you man handle fish awful i have unsubcribed

@WildFishTanks 5 лет назад

Sorry to hear you’re unsubscribing Dominic.Can I ask what you mean by manhandle? We released most of the fish and the ones I kept are doing well and are healthy.

@SunfishForFish 5 лет назад

How do you think they collect the fish that you buy at the store Lol you silly person