Collecting trip

So me and my kids went down to the ditch about a block away where I have seen fish. Looks like we caught 3-4 different kinds along with some ghost shrimp! My son even caught a dragonfly larvae so they got to learn about those and why we didn't want to bring it back. I managed to net a small red eared slider turtle so they could check it out and then we put it back. All in all it was pretty fun and we all got good and muddy
I put everything we brought home into an empty 10g with a sponge filter that I just cleared out.
I will get pics of all the fish and shrimp that we caught, but it will have to wait till morning, I am beat!
Looks to me like live bearers and/or killifish. I am going to need help IDing these guys for sure! There are spotted ones and stripey ones and some plain silver ones.

Plain ones are probably mosquito fish, Othrer may be mollies. (of course who knows what was dumped in a florida ditch. LOL)

I got some pics, looking like mollys killis, some kind of dwarf cichlid and god knows what else, More kinds than I originally thought!

Awesome little fishes!

cool fish to be comin out of a creek

Not even a creek, it was a drainage ditch out front of the kids school
Fun little outing with benefits

Last pic mosquito fish second pic almost looks like a puffer. pic 5 looks like least killi fish, pic 7 of course a wild molly. and looks like some kind of dwarf pencil fish in there also. Good Finds!

The 2nd pic seems like a pup fish in my very quick research, not puffer like but looks like it in that pic. Still cant seem to find any decent sites that have the small Florida fish on them.
I will have to look up least killifish.
Do some pencil fish live in Florida? I fully agree that some look like pencil fish but never thought that they lived here.

Not too sure what I will do with these guys, some may be up for grabs after a 2 week QT.
I know that after catching them and adapting them to tank life that I cant release them back into the wild.

I will try to get pics of each different kind in a catch container soon.

The fish in the last pic is a Gambusia Affinis...Very bad aggressive....People used these for feeder fish and they wound up nipping the fins off the fish that were supposed to eat them.

I see one Green Sailfin Molly female......Not knowing how big they are , but sone of the fish with the dark lines and red tiped fins look like Formosa mosquito fish.

The largest 2 fish are 2" They both look like female mosquito fish to me. The rest of the fish are along an inch long.

On the Gambusia Affinis I think you are right, I have lots of little ones in there of those as well.

Heterandria Formosa, seem to be the ones with the not solid stripe running along them. http://www.seriouslyfish.com/profile.php?genus=Heterandria&species=formosa&id=122


Dano, that was a big help!

Jordanella floridae looks to be the odd shaped spotty one

Lucania goodei seems to be the solid striped ones

Glad to see you found some IDs.

Was only up till 3am finding them Noo I'm not a fish addict I swear I'm not

these kinds of posts I find among the very best - wish we all did it more field reports with pics, including me

Local collecting is a blast! Even if its all catch and release its neat to see whats there!

Fern.. denial is the very first sign of addiction. .

ya ya
actually I am giving my dad the 'keeper' ditch fish to go into the 75g I'm hooking him up with. Then me and him will go catch some crested gobys for his tank

I love those crested gobie guys!!!!

You get to help catch em!

neat

I wanna go out collecting!! There is so much freaking water around here I've been going nuts.

May have to schedule a day after the holiday madness is over My dad wants some shrimp and some more least killifish so now I have a reason to go

I'd love to tag along if you'd have me! If it works with my schedule that is.