Collecting Tropical Fish and exploring Aquatic habitats in Central Florida

[@cameroonkendrick6312]

The native fish in Florida are so underrated, I like the metallic shinners and Pygmy sunfish

[@tgoeshelbykaye5252]

Thank you for visiting! Great video❤!

[@themadaquarist]

You guys made it so worthwhile

[@jlatimer1234]

Awesome video!👍🏻

[@Baffi_]

That one net full had half the species I want from Florida in it Wish you could have brought that back 😅

[@themadaquarist]

No fish for you

[@MakoyUnggoy]

You can't beat a good rummage around undergrowth and water, you never know what's going to turn up! Hope to see an animal update soon on the farm now the weather is warming up mate!

[@themadaquarist]

Funny you should ask… I filmed one this past week… only to find out I had the microphone plugged into the wrong port. I will do one next week when I return from the reptile/plant expo

[@caewalker9276]

Thanks Chris.👍💚🇦🇺

[@themadaquarist]

I’m Hank you kindly for watching

[@audrameyer9558]

Thank you for sharing this adventure!! That looked so very fun and educational 🤗

[@themadaquarist]

I love sharing my adventures with people like yourself Audra

[@billmeyer4773]

Very educational experience here . I want to Thank you so much for taking the time out of the day to Share your experiences and thoughts with us all . So many plants i wound love to have and those beautiful lily pads .Wow If possible kindly keep putting our those magnificent video's as long as you can, because when you get my age and you get sick ,it gets harder to go do what you do. Oh by the way i can't expess this enough times . Thanks So very much .

[@themadaquarist]

Thank you so very much Bill for the kind words. I will do so until I am Unable to

[@damionmarkham9835]

Awsome dude , truly amazing

[@themadaquarist]

Truly kind thank you

[@sghettinona]

Fascinating!! Thanks for sharing. I'm going to have to get to those springs! Very cool! It's easier to sort a dip net if you dip the bottom in a bucket and sort it in water

[@themadaquarist]

So Much to do and explore in Florida

[@kjeaquatics]

very cool

[@themadaquarist]

Thanks Keith

[@geofishdude9488]

Really cool ecosystems, I wonder what fish are living down in that cave

[@themadaquarist]

There’s a solid white almost translucent crayfish species and I believe some other inverts from some Of the reading I did

[@geofishdude9488]

Fascinating stuff, crazy how life finds a way to adapt to any situation

[@PaulZyCZ]

Even non-endemic would be cool, if sad to find. A colleague from California mentioned Dwarf Gourami are invasive in Florida.

[@themadaquarist]

They are listed but truthfully I personally never seen or caught any in the many years and trips

[@Rannulfur]

I don't think that's a correct ID on the Bluefin Killifish. There's another native lookalike around here that's easy to mistake. The caudal fins look wrong on yours. Great video!

[@themadaquarist]

You may very well be correct. I’ve just gone by what the locals told Me

[@cameroonkendrick6312]

The rainwater killifish, they only live in springs

[@waldnerpeter7173]

Did you stuff your pockets with leaf litter??

[@themadaquarist]

Not this time no

[@FreshwaterIchthyology]

I ask how much is natural, what we see as natural particularly recently is far off. I think it's the forgetting of how freshwater is manipulated and that plants can be damaging and invasive. In the UK a lot has changed, weirs/barriers and the increase of silt/nutrients has changed everything the most. Looking in over ones lifetime doesn't show how much it's changed. It makes me wonder as I come from a chalk stream area and so much of that is gone now, what people see as natural isn't. Also moving to somewhere that definitely was temperate rainforests with surviving pockets it highlights it further and the levels of flash flooding are on another level to most of the UK.

[@themadaquarist]

Very true my friend, very true

[@TomWilson-g3e]

I caught big bass there years ago

[@TomWilson-g3e]

Newts are not in my area. They are north fl and above.

[@TomWilson-g3e]

Im in Hernando county