Natives!

[srusso]

Can't steal Al's thunder, but he got me thinking....

What thunder would you be stealing? Did he find local fish?

[Discus-n00b]

He did.

http://forum.simplydiscus.com/showthread.php?t=81305

[Darrell Ward]

Cool! How much for a styrofoam fish box full? These would make tasty feeders for cichla!

[Ryan]

Mosquitofish are really easy to find here in Florida. They live in basically any body of water. They are exported all over the country (and the rest of the world, I think) for mosquito control. They eat like half their body weight a day in mosquito larvae.

Have you ever seen the black and white morph? It tends to only show on the male fish, but they look like dalmation mollies.



I used to have tankfuls of these things. They do make great feeders. Never put them in with other peaceful community fish, though! I learned my lesson there. I mixed mine with platies and some tetras and the Gambusia shredded their fins and attacked them constantly. They are highly aggressive for such tiny fish.

[Discus-n00b]

I've never seen the black and white ones, pretty cool.

[GoingDiscus]

Cool! How much for a styrofoam fish box full? These would make tasty feeders for cichla!

They are excellent for feeders, and they can handle very diverse water conditions, when my pond dried up they lived in the remaing mud holes till birds ate them and the water was almost the consitincy of syrup. and it was hot.

[GoingDiscus]

Hey Matt if your getting into natives I can get you a mudfish this spring pretty easy. I see them on my artifact hunting excursions. also have you seen them little punkin seed bream? super colors and somewhat easy to find....
By the way them Discus are doing great

[GoingDiscus]

Hey Matt if your getting into natives I can get you a mudfish this spring pretty easy. I see them on my artifact hunting excursions. also have you seen them little punkin seed bream? super colors and somewhat easy to find....
By the way them Discus are doing great