Native Fish collection Trip

[Nickintex]

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It was fun... I didnt keep any for my fish tanks...  just caught em, loooked at them and tossed them back. are there any treatments y'all do other then quarantine, before you put wild caught fish in a tank with other fish?
I've started working on the barrel filter, but have been pretty busy and havent had a chance to do too much.  and I still need to find a place to buy PVC bulkheads.

James, bring them to the next GHAC meeting, I'd be interested. Or maybe I could join you on a collecting trip near you?
I treat wild fish with melafix, pimafix and aquarisol for a couple of weeks.

[Tiapan]

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mine just ended up going in a tank by themselves. didnt mess with them too much.

[JStrider]

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hey Nick, remind me a few days before one of the meetings and I can catch some for ya.

or if you want to come up here and wander around Spring Creek one day, just give me a pm and we can set something up.

[lachupacabra]

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anyone know a good place to go fish/plant finding in sw houston or not too far up nw?

[Mzungu]

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Oh, you're in a great spot! Really, just go exploring around your area for any bodies of water which are mostly permanent. Even roadside ditches work, especially for marginal plants that can easily be converted to aquarium plants.  :)  There's a great website detailing native fish caught in and around Houston, and many are from Buffalo bayou drainages near Hwy 6 and 1-10. Lemme find the link...

[Tiapan]

Well i went Fish Collecting Yesterday again. i was looking at the area that i hav been going to, to see if it would be ok for the Club trip, but it seems it has been hit pretty hard by IKE. I did find one or two small spots and made a great catch, but not enough areas were available for the club to go as a group. i will keep my eye out for any othe place.

[Rico]

anyone know a good place to go fish/plant finding in sw houston or not too far up nw?

there is a man made lake on fondren and the beltway. lots of fish. they even got giant plecos.

[prof_cook]

Info

I just jumped in here....go to our link at www.aka.org\TAKO\index.html and off the main page is collection that we have made .... might give it a try ... straight down 288. Easy directions.

Very interested in having Killies - got diabaties type 2 and can't do a whole lot of collecting my self but make a great supervisor from the bank and pulling fish from the net.

[riofrio]

Coming back from LA this last Sunday I decided to check out Tiapan's hunting ground around Winnie, actually from Port Arthur to Anahuac Hwy 73 to Hwy 65 and including Hwy124 and FM1941 I hit gold in a drainage culvert under hwy 73 and couldn't believe the Sheepshead minnows , adults and lots of babys. another hot spot was at the junction of 124 and FM 1941 lots of some kind of little shiners I haven't identified yet and a few pretty large mollies etc, then further west on 1941 there were several creeks that had more sheeps heads and different shiners, and a rice canal yielded a single Fundulus notatus. Notably absent were any Fundulus chrysotus [B]or least killifish, which is what I was really after. Apparently Ike really wiped the little guys out, or pushed them further inland.
I talked with a TPWD agent today and he said some of that road (Hwy 73) was under 10 to 12 feet of sea water.

[Mzungu]

Yikes, that's really too bad. I certainly hope they were able to move further inland.

Post some pics of the shiners if you kept them, maybe we can help you ID them. :)

Thanks for sharing about your trip! What and how many did you end up taking home?

[riofrio]

I brought home 10 or 12 sheeps head minnows, and 15 or so juveniles,1 fundulus notatus, 1 inland silverside, a few dwarf crayfish 2 of which are unusually very dark colored, and a few small as yet unknowns.
As I said, what I was really after was the least killifish, so if anyone knows where they can be caught I'm open to suggestions. (Have Nets ,Will Travel) Thanks

[Nickintex]

How's the silverside? They unfortunately usually do not take well to captivity.

[Sea-agg09]

Least killis like area's that sometimes transition from fresh into brackish water. While most books say they are exclusively freshwater fish, I catch them in Galveston all the time.
2 suggestions:
Turtle bayou, it is NW connected to lake anahuac, between 1-10 and FM 563
FM 146, heading north toward dayton. There are a ton of drainage ditches and culverts that make great hiding spots for killifish

These are both pure fresh locations, and i have caught them there. If you have no luck, I have a few more spots, but I'm not giving away all my secrets.

Ps. watch out for those cyprinodonts, they are crazy fish that have ridiculous attitudes. I personally wouldn't put them in a tank.

[riofrio]

How's the silverside? They unfortunately usually do not take well to captivity.

SO FAR so good, he/she is in a community tank with other natives, particularly a pugnose minnow and 4 bullhead minnows . they all look land act like him/her so they allget along OK especially at feeding time.

[riofrio]

Least Killies...

Least killis like area's that sometimes transition from fresh into brackish water. While most books say they are exclusively freshwater fish, I catch them in Galveston all the time.
2 suggestions:
Turtle bayou, it is NW connected to lake anahuac, between 1-10 and FM 563
FM 146, heading north toward dayton. There are a ton of drainage ditches and culverts that make great hiding spots for killifish

These are both pure fresh locations, and i have caught them there. If you have no luck, I have a few more spots, but I'm not giving away all my secrets.

Ps. watch out for those cyprinodonts, they are crazy fish that have ridiculous attitudes. I personally wouldn't put them in a tank.

Good Info, I know pretty much where that is, I had a suspicion they could be there, but Galveston is a surprise