Good start on my Florida aquarium

I love living on a canal in Florida. Catch a cool looking small fish, and it can become an aquarium piece. Always had to pay for fish, now they are right here.

I was gonna leave my aquarium stuff in Illinois, even was gonna throw it out. Ask my friends, I've been offering it to anyone that would listen. Tomtom even has one.

So I look up what a 120 gallon aquarium costs now a days, and I decide, hmm, maybe I need to bring that one down with me. Darn things are expensive. And it'll look great in the screen room. Although it might need a chiller come mid summer!

Anyway, here's the start of the collection.

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We have some nice looking fish here. Shu got me the Warmouth just two days ago.

Those are nice looking fish. It's really fun to watch them pop a cricket off the top.

Gonna be cool to watch. Pretty red belly.

Bet you'll have a lot of fun watching those fish.

My wife and I LOVE FLORIDA! Wish we would had moved here 20 years ago!

You know that happened in reverse too. Canals are full of Oscars and Mayan Cyclids from aquariums being dumped in them.
I caught these out of the canals in the Everglades. Ugly catfish in the middle, glad I only caught one of them!

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Those calico cats are pretty common in Florida - find them in almost all lakes from
Okeechobee to Crescent.

Need to get some greenery, rock, sediment structure in you AQ.
Good looking first additions

Just a bullhead. Some fine eatin right there.

If your tank is on the back porch, you will need a heater as well.

The hydrilla should be easy to find.--shu

That is a cool idea, neat fish!

Parents had a fish pond while growing up. I put everything in there you can think of. Yes even a alligator. Didn't have the exotic then that we have now. You can go to Tampa bypass canal and catch algae eaters but 120 gal. might not be big enough.

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Originally Posted by Jjsmarlin

If your tank is on the back porch, you will need a heater as well.

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Not in this weather! doh

Dang it's been hot. It's Winter, really! Where.

I agree that's a bullhead or speckled cat. We have them in many lakes around Tallahassee.

its not a bull head - to big - bull heads i would thing don't get any bigger
than 1/2 lb maybe 8-10" long
caught many hundred of them years ago in Indiana -Michigan-Ohio - Kentucky
and they weren't of marked like that one. Mostly kinda green/bownish -

Bullhead. Have caught many close to 2 pounds. Specially in cross Florida barge canal by Rodman

Calico Cat eh?? I had never seen one and I figured it was a refugee like the Oscars and Cyclids. We are headed back for a week first of April. Always a fun trip to Okeechobee and the Everglades.

Brown Bullhead
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_bullhead

Very nice, you can fish on the porch now:fish