Catching Wild INVASIVE Fish In Florida! kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZmeZlJJ6n5nagLw.html

I hit the thumbs up as soon as I saw you pick up the trash from the area! Looks like alot of fun fishing there!

@WildFishTanks

4 жыл бұрын

LRB Aquatics - Natural Aquarium Keeping Adventures thanks, Maybe the siren is something for Hayley to try her hand at breeding eventually

@throughtheendlessinertia1915

4 жыл бұрын

same^^

So I watched this video about an hour ago and decided to go netting on my canal next to the house. Within 45 minutes I caught 3 of these same sirens. Really made my day. Getting them acclimated to my 55 gallon as I'm typing this.

3:48 In Trinidad we call that fish a Coscarob (Blue Acara). They are found in almost all rivers, ponds, and streams here. I caught two using a fishing rod and kept them in an aquarium. They are truly amazing fishes to keep. The first one I caught was extremely skittish and never ate, but warmed up to me and started following me around whenever I was near the tank. The second one was extremely fascinating. Both fishes were silver when I caught them with a single black spot close to their tails, but I noticed that the pattern on them would change to stripes, then return. Most impressive however was that the second Coscarob turn black with deep stripes and started flaring its fins, all of them. He then got super aggressive and kept fighting with the other fishes in the tank. Once he had transitioned to Dark Mode, he never changed back.

I'm mostly subbed to gaming channels but recently I decided to get back into my childhood hobby of fish keeping. I think you're gonna be my first sub in this genre. Seem like a real dope dude.

@EuroGupper

2 жыл бұрын

Check out "Aquarium co-op", "MD Fishtanks" and "The Secret History Living In Your Aquarium"

+1 for picking up trash. A habit i generated some years back, if we all did it our environment would be much improved.

@HappyMomma412

3 жыл бұрын

Ohmygosh! So true!

Good to see the comments from people who also police an area for trash. Sometimes it feels like we’re the only ones. My son and I camped a lot and that was the first thing we always did. We called it setting up our garbage bag.

"CRAZY and FLORIDA MAN" in the same title. I knew shit was gonna be wild lol

Exactly 2 years later I found this video, thank you for putting out so much info on finding wild fish!

That is a siren larvae, i used to breed those guys. super Rare during the day,can eat anything you put in the tank, super cool find dude! Love your videos! And your shop

First few seconds...catching sailfin molly in the wild. That is my favorite fish as a kid. Instant subscribe. Love seeing these fish in the wild.

Wow! Can't wait to try this next time I visit family in South Florida! Thanks for sharing!

Awesome video looked fun playing with a net. A lot of respect for cleaning up the area I do the same thing.

Just found your channel... LOVE IT! I'll be binging it for the next few days! :)

I just found your channel and can tell in he first few minutes I’ll love it. I’m a strong believer in leaving natural environments cleaner than how you find them. I also enjoy doing exactly what you are doing up here in Pennsylvania. Been netting fish and critters as long as I can remember. At 3:20 is for sure a blue gill but the next looks to be an invasive maybe a convict cichlids.

Its a siren salamander. Texas jungle has a few in his aquarium, but i think those are a different kind.

@WildFishTanks

4 жыл бұрын

Yea I think you’re right, not sure if its a greater siren or lesser siren

@cliffordkennelscollection6883

4 жыл бұрын

Lesser Siren to be exact!! We have one just about 3 inches! They can reach up to 2 feet!

@rickyw.2631

4 жыл бұрын

How do they life? What do they eat? How bug to they get?

That was really friggen cool. Thanks for sharing

I've caught a full grown siren before in a ditch next to my old place, they have like a parrot beak and feed on worms and shrimp, I love your videos, because it's something I do myself from time to time, amazing work as always!

Man, that is the smallest siren I have ever seen! I had two when I was kid living in South Texas, but they were both huge! Great video, man!

This was the first time that I have seen any of your videos. I really enjoyed watching you and your upbeat personality. I look forward to to seeing more of your videos. Keep up the great work.

@WildFishTanks

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Debbie!

Nice thanks for the video

Thanks for sharing your fun collecting trip!

@WildFishTanks

4 жыл бұрын

Appreciate you checking it out Dan, thanks for coming along

Inspiring! Congrats from Bolivia

Great video love doing this with my children I the summer always catch and release in the past with us we caught a baby axolotl just got me a 300lt tank and will be taking the kids down to the local pond for some catches

Appreciate that you clean up. Leave an area better than when you arrived is a great motto to have.

I subscribed just because you cleaned up the area and left it better than you found it. Thank you for that. The fish and wildlife content is a bonus.

I really enjoy looking at you videos. I am a fish keeper and things that i think of doing you are actually doing. You really inspire me. Thanks for your videos.

Sweet fish scooping adventure, you found some beauties for sure..

@WildFishTanks

4 жыл бұрын

Yea I’m glad I got out

So cool to see many wild fish species I grew up catching in ponds and ditches. The Kilifish was one of my faves as they thrive in grassy/algae laid areas. We have a small pond behind our rental loaded with Gambusia, Blue Gill, and Bass. May create a small aqua bowl (self-cycled) and try it with Gambusia or Kilifish from the pond behind us. Thx for sharing and enjoy!!

Interesting video! I live in Florida as well and I mite start a native tank using some of your techniques. You just got a new subscriber.

That was great. Thanks for taking us along.

@WildFishTanks

4 жыл бұрын

My pleasure, thanks for joining

Awesome video!! Love your enthusiasm.... Well done....

@WildFishTanks

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jim! appreciate you checking it out

I enjoy going on the fish collecting trips with you. Thank you.

@WildFishTanks

4 жыл бұрын

Appreciate you coming along Marty

That siren was cool. I’ve kept newts, salamanders, and frogs before but never seen a siren. Been wanting to do a tank of least killifish at some point. Nice vid. Looks like fun. Stay safe.

Awesome video!

Looked real peaceful and relaxing!

@WildFishTanks

4 жыл бұрын

It was! Just what the doctor ordered

Wow. Awesome. And thanks for picking up the trash, that was cool. :)

As soon as i saw you going through your net it was an Instant subscribe from me. I'm 47 and have netted my local waterways for 37 years. I've now bought extra ponds to keeps some of the water bugs I find.

Nice video man. You should have more like that. Thank you.

I wish it was warm enough to collect here!!!! I'M JELLY!!! Great video Ryan, as usual it was a fun watch!

@WildFishTanks

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Don! Hopefully it warms up soon for you, would love to see more poor mans Peru haha

Florida has ALL Kinds of crazy cool looking invasive fish. I hardly Never had to buy and freshwater aquarium fish. I Really Liked you’re video.

I love knowing someone else out there is just like me! I'm in a more densely populated area of Florida, Pinellas County. I recently used the litter I found walking down by the water as an excuse to what I was doing around a small body of water in a subdivision! 😄 Sometimes I feel like it's seriously too much of an addiction! LOL I have to see what's going on over in that water!! I caught two AMAZING male Sailfins a few days ago! Got them in quarantine, along with myself 😆 its a WOOPER!!! lol 🤣👍 it's freaking awesome!!

@WildFishTanks

4 жыл бұрын

Nice finds! Male sailfins are always so elusive. I haven’t had luck acclimating adult ones, I have two in my 55 now but grew them out from juvies. Good luck with them and Stay safe!

This is the wholesome content I am here for!

@WildFishTanks

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed!

New subscriber , you had me with the hillstream loach video 🐟

WOAH!!! You're killing it!!! Great finds, great vid as usual!!!!

@WildFishTanks

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! really had a great time filming this one

@monicawg

4 жыл бұрын

@@WildFishTanks you're welcome! It helps tremendously during the quarantine, especially in Northern NY! Our temps are still freezing at night!! Many thanks🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾!!! Keep on it!!!

Really glad I stumbled upon this! I've been doing this same thing but in Wisconsin the past 25 yrs or better.

Enjoying the content.. new to the game myself.. Beautiful species and education Bless y'all

@WildFishTanks

4 жыл бұрын

Welcome!

Me and my son do this in South Texas, love the vid going out in the morning to see what we can find to add to the tank,

Great catch love the video.

@WildFishTanks

4 жыл бұрын

Alan R thanks for checking it out Alan!

Love that title for the video 😂 great video too. Appreciate the content man

@WildFishTanks

4 жыл бұрын

Haha had to represent Florida man. Appreciate you checking it out Ryan!

I'm in winter garden and I've been doing the same thing! Crazy that this was recommended

@blaketundra3216

4 жыл бұрын

Last week I got hair grass, Monty carlo and 10 mosquitofish. This week ima setup a tank with duckweed and maybe make a cast net. Hope everyone is okay.

Great video In the last lake in your video I Caught some jewel cichlids I put them in my fish pond

I’ve always called them mudpuppies where I’m from and I normally catch them in my minnow traps in my ponds but they are normally about 6in long

So exciting. That is a baby greater siren!!! Rare

Great Video.

yes! more of this i love it

@WildFishTanks

4 жыл бұрын

Something tells me I’ll be getting out again pretty soon

Sub’d to you! Didn’t take long! Your videos are awesome bro!!

Great video. I'm a bit envious.

Good job man. Good f'n job

It's really nice having you back in KZread world.

@WildFishTanks

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks man! Glad to be back, appreciate you

good stuff! I'm going to try netting next time we visit FL!

Really enjoying the video. I want to shoot an underwater video feeding panfish soon. This really has me motivated. We keep a native fish tank in our living room just so we can experience all that nature has to offer even locally.

Great video

Awesome!!

Get those things up for sale. Wild catch

Man mad respect for cleaning up the trash. I hate when I see people use public or private land and not only leave there trash do nothing to improve it. I was always raised to leave a place better than you found it. Glad someone is putting it out there.

There's fertile ponds nearby that hold lots of ghost shrimp that I use to feed my baby sunfish that I net caught. Feed him shrimp and invasive cut fish (blue tilapia/mayan cichlids/brown hoplo) catch big ones on fly rod or net catch smaller ones that he eats cut.

I am sooo jealous ! I have always wanted to do what you are doing right now but I never did. I live in the northeast (Massachusetts)

You remind me of myself...except I am from Canada (less biodiversity!). My whole life I always dreamed of living somewhere like Florida, just for the critters! I feel you I geek out bigtime watching this type of video cause I can't get in that water myself. God bless.

Very cool. I grew up scooping in New Jersey for madtoms and mudpuppies mostly. Stay safe👊🏾

@WildFishTanks

4 жыл бұрын

That's awesome. I grew up on long island and my fair share of scooping and digging around. Had no idea what a madtom was until last year when I caught one though haha, have two now kzread.info/dash/bejne/opOZk9lmpdTZY6Q.html

love these videos ryan please do more =)

@WildFishTanks

4 жыл бұрын

I have a sneaky suspicion they’ll be more where this came from 🤫

Wow! Check out that beard!👍👍Looking Good! Cheers, Chris

@WildFishTanks

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Chris! Growing it, we’ll see what happens haha. Hope the weather warms up so you can get outside on the island soon

@Cgraseck

4 жыл бұрын

Quarantined at the moment and my allergies are crippling. I have to make a video about all of my classroom fish living in five gallon buckets in my dining room. Interesting times my friend. Interesting times. Cheers and be well, Chris

where i am in Colorado you find those salamanders in the mountains and they get big , one snatched a piece of bread from around our camp fire , no joke

Good swipes bro!

Man with how often “snake discovery” is in Florida i really think it would be awesome if you guys did a group video. They also have a lice if freshwater fish and do a lot if talking about the invasive animals in Florida. Lots of turtles and bugs in addition to all the lizards and frogs and they all gotta eat. I bet there is a ton of crossover in the two hobbies. They have done goldfish netting before too :)

i kept a wild caught water siren for a couple of years caught in n.c. he was 20 inches or so, and was not at all difficult to keep. i eventualy released him back to the wild as i do all my native captures.

Nice videi man,hello from Croatia🇭🇷🇭🇷

Awesome channel. Its awesome being able to go catch aquarium fish. I have to the pet store 45min away and hope they have something. (Ky)

Really like this type of vids

@WildFishTanks

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Philip, glad you enjoyed!

Yes plz sell them little killi fishes. I would love to added them to a nano tank.

I spend a lot of time on the Winter Park chain. I am curious what might be caught dip netting, there is a ton of vegetation

Awesome video Ryan, got some good stuff this trip.

@WildFishTanks

4 жыл бұрын

The Biker Aquarist thanks Ray! I wanted to stay close to civilization even though I knew I’d be “social distancing”....lucked out with these spots, we’ll all have to go together

@thebikeraquarist7978

4 жыл бұрын

@@WildFishTanks Sounds good, it's been awhile so I'm looking forward to it!

In my country we call the black acara, black cuscarub and they grows pretty large and grate aquarium fish and they taste good to.

Also hit the like button as soon as you picked up trash. Good for you. Wish everyone was this conscious of the planet!

That is indeed a Black Acara, I find them mostly in small lakes, ponds, and slow moving creeks. They do have established breeding colonies all over Florida, recognized as an established invasive as far as I know. As usual loving the content and glad to have met you at the Tampa auction.

@WildFishTanks

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the info Shane! Crazy how Mia you species there are, native and invasive. It was great meeting you also, hopefully everything is back to normal in time for this falls auction

@shanemendoza3595

4 жыл бұрын

@FreeRoamFantasy No problem! Hardy fish that has a good bit of personality. I have found them anywhere from penny sized up to about 5-6". Usually along the shores of creeks and ponds. Dense vegetation along the shore is usually where I catch them. You can find a lot of smaller ones in the flooded grasses in the rainy season.

If you're ever in Tampa, I would love to go out collecting! Second thing - what net are you using, looks solid and I'm curious where you bought it. Thanks!

I dig the video but the beard is looking fresh my dude 👌🏼 beard and wild fish game is on point.

@WildFishTanks

4 жыл бұрын

Been shaving the head but haven’t cut or even trimmed beard or stache in awhile. Think I’ll just let it go for a bit

i always clean up the area i am fishing in. i wish more people followed the leave it better then you found it way of thinking. it never fails that i always find fishing line and trash every where i go. strange how people can bring the crap in with them but can never seem able to take it back out with them. when ever i taught kids fishing or outdoorsmenship i always told them never leave anything behind that you brought in and leave the place better by cleaning up what you can and if you could not report it so it can be done. thank you for spreading that message and doing your part

I'm in sarasota fl are you located close at all. I've been looking for black acaras for awhile and havent found them. Very awesome catch!

Something I've noticed about gambusia is they can sort of change their colour from pale light brown to a much darker brown

Nice video! that Siren thing is a sweet find. I have a morphed axolotl myself.

@WildFishTanks

4 жыл бұрын

That’s cool, what morph?

@creepygallery3303

4 жыл бұрын

@@WildFishTanks it morphed into its salamander stage. Would love to see an update on the Siren in the future.

First time I`ve seen your videos. like your sincere passion about the wild life nice to see. hard to say from video but they look like blue gills that are common in south jersey others could be someones old pet or blue gills wide variety in colors

What an awesome, wholesome channel. We need more content like this.

That really Kool first video I've seen of yours but to have access to do what you doing is the best I'm in the process of doing the same thing I have a few tanks just getting back into things after I have moved saltwater tanks Coral's and all was my thing about 11 years ago I now have more space hence the few tanks I have I'm doing mostly cichlids now but I also want to do a tank with just native species from the lake around me love to hit those lakes and waterways around you some time in future

That lake reminds me when I used to fish behind Ocoee city hall / I think it was starke lake been years since I been out there!

I have a entire set up just for salamander fry/ they love staying by the land in leaf piles and shit /brine shrimp and bloodworms

Literally seen the first 10sec of video and subbed!

@WildFishTanks

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks David, welcome!

Those plants are native to Florida it's called watershield it's a type of pond lilies. 👍 it's the water hyacinth that's the big problem. Stay safe I really enjoyed video.

When I was a kid we would use a heavy tine take and just throw the rake all the way out and pull all the weeds in and look through them and catch all kinds of fish and turtles crayfish . Works better than the net.

@680ecks

3 жыл бұрын

Go raking

That was quite an adventure. i am inspired to do something similar here. i very nice way of spending a lockdown. No stress. How do you keep your water so clean, do you change it regularly. how regular do you change it and how to you grow wild fish. how do you know what they eat and how they bread etc etc. Great hobby. i bread catfish as a business, but i am inspired by your activity to add ornamental fish. B regards Mulamata