Dipnetting Duo Again

[Rex740]

This time me and trojannemo dipnetted together at his usual spot. We caught amazing fish, including a really nice blue spotted sunfish. I will post pics of the fish I caught soon and trojannemo will post pics of some of the fish we caught later. I miscounted and apparently came home with 14 fish. I have 13 in my 48 gallon aquarium now and I am wondering if this will trigger an amonia spike. Any advice on adding these fish? Should I add some stress zyme or something? By the way the fish are blue fin killies, golden top killies, swamp darters, and black marbled gambusia.

 

[Rex740]

I have pictures of mine for now...

These are the Marbled Gambusia. They are the main things I was trying to catch. We never actually caught them dipnetting, as for dipnetting, you just scoop up plants and see what you get. I saw one Marbled Gambusia a couple feet from the shore and Trojannemo caught it. Then I saw another later on and when I tried catching it I thought I lost it but my net ended up haing two in it. Unfortunately they are all males...

These are the few blue-fin killifish males we caught. I think Trojannemo destroyed the whole population when he caught over 10 the last time he went.

Here are the Fundulus Chrysotus. I ended up bringing 5 home, 3 males and 2 females. One female died almost right away. I am the most excited about the giant male. Two of the males are average size with some color, but at the very end of the trip Trojannemo caught me a huge male with some pretty good color on it.

The one that died is the one lying on the bottom front. The giant one is on the left.

Last is the Swamp Darters. Last trip I posted pictures of the Sand Darters I caught but apparently these darker colored relatives are also present around here and are twice the size of the sand darters. I just hope I can get them to eat which I can't get the sand darters to do.

Trojannemo will post his pics up later. Some of them are mine but when they were caught and some were really nice ones that we caught and released, such as this beautiful blue spotted sunfish that we were tempted to keep.

 

[trojannemo]

you think we're just annoying people with all these dipnetting posts and pictures?

until someone tells me to stop then i'll keep the pictures coming! here are my pictures...i tried narrowing it down to one picture per species caught...

Lucania goodei - bluefin killifish - Rex740 is correct in saying i destroyed the population...last time i was here i took home about 22, mostly males! this is one of the ones we caught yesterday:

my favorite of the day - this is what i wanted to catch last time! E. gloriosus - Blue Spotted Sunfish:

Fundulus chrysotus - one of the more colorful ones i caught...THE best looking one managed to jump out of my hand before i snapped the picture

one of the swamp darters that were very abundant - E. fusiforme (?)

Rex740's much wanted mosquito fish - Gambusia affinis - sorry no out of water picture:

one of the larger guys i caught - i believe this is a mayan cichlid?

a molly - no luck getting sailfin mollies, only the standards

sunfish - warmouth or bluegill? many of these guys around...

caught many many little T. mariae:

so far this is the biggest fish i've caught dipnetting, approx. 4" T. mariae

besides what's picture also caught the standard variety gambusia, ghost shrimp and spiders.

other than the ghost shrimp, everything else caught and pictured was released (except the few Rex740 took home)...

comments welcome, help with the IDs NEEDED!

 

[aussieant32]

these fish look fantastic, when you say dipnetting do you mean you go to a local stream etc and catch wild fish?

 

[trojannemo]

that's the idea, except we dont have much in the way of "streams" thanks to our super busy and crowded cities down here. what we do have are canal systems that go all over the state, and the everglades! as long as you have a freshwater fishing license you're good to go, it is legal and lots of fun

 

[Darkerwhite2]

All these fish go into your tanks? That's pretty cool. Do you do research about what fish your catching before you do for your tanks?

Just curious

 

[trojannemo]

All these fish go into your tanks? That's pretty cool. Do you do research about what fish your catching before you do for your tanks?

Just curious

other than the ghost shrimp, everything else caught and pictured was released (except the few Rex740 took home)...

 

[Rex740]

Most of the research I see is experiences with other dipnetters that have kept the fish. In reality, most of the fish we catch are never really sold in pet stores and there is very little aquarium information on them online. For example the swamp darter, there is very little information on keeping it in the aquarium due to pet stores not selling them. All you really have to know is compatibility and food. The water parameters aren't really that hard, as all the fish are adapted to the water in the canals. Also a good portion of the species are non-native and are very tolerant of water levels.


Also to Trojannemo: I am not allowing you to fish in that canal anymore due to it needing serious replenishing, especially of blue-fins.

 

[Shred]

I dont know anything about the fish that you caught so I cant help with IDs but I would just like to say thank you for posting the pictures! I'm so jealous!

 

[OldMan47]

You have found some nice fish there but no Heterandria formosa? They should be abundant in the shallower water areas and up under the banks.

 

[trojannemo]

yes we catch those all the time but those go back in the water as soon as i notice them, just like with the gambusia...

sorry for not taking pictures of those!