Native ID

[Fishboy93]

thanks a lot

[flamingo]

Yup, no prob.

Pretty lucky you can go and catch those kind of fish.

The rarest or coolest thing i've ever caught (well my cousin actually) was a baby muskie that was about 5 inches..too bad his catfish ate it lol. I felt so bad because these things are hard to catch around here ( hence the name fish of a thousand casts) and we just happen to find ababy..was in my tank and was very cool and peaceful..than my cousin said it got eaten..i think he killed it and was trying to cover it up lol.

[Fishboy93]

lol sorry to hear about the fish lose though...yeah sometimes i take stuff for granted.....the only probs are i gotta watch for gators...

[Fishboy93]

Well the Mayan Cichlids ate everything in my tank but the mollies and mummichog...no my bro wont listen to me ARGH!!

[Fishfirst]

flamingonhot - be careful about taking native gamefish, the concequences are stiff around here, especially when you're taking fish I try to catch regularly in the summer and can't catch them

[flamingo]

Yeah, that's what we were worrie dabout fish first lol. It was a once in a like life time deal so we kept it...my only condition was that he gave it THE BEST care he could and never let it die lol. Well that didn't happen now did it... ANd yes, i was very suprised when we found out that it was a muskie lol.

At night in the summer we go down to the marsh down the hill from me ( we live on a hill thing and a huge cranberry marsh is maybe 600 feet from here and there's tons of mashes and stuff) at night and shine fish lol. So far we've found tons of catfish and A LOT of baby northerns. I wanted to keep one but sadly don't have the size of tank it needs lol. Usually we see at least 5 a night if it's nice out.

[Fishfirst]

check your local regualtions for size limits too, technically, you can't take fish under these size limits... if you want a baby game fish, check out a few places that sell natives for ponds... that way, its all legal

[Fishboy93]

hmmm as for game fish... i dont think i have any.. ill ask my lfs one time i almost kept a snapper but then remembered about that.

[Fishfirst]

I was also refering flamingonhot to my last post

[flamingo]

lol yup/

My dad said that if we ever go to a fish hatchery he's getting a bunch of fish lol.

He almost got a sturgeon or two once when he went up to one a long time ago.

[Fishboy93]

Originally Posted by Fishfirst

I was also refering flamingonhot to my last post

O thank you...phew i was worried there for a sec..... Anyway I caught two comb jellyfish and have them in a breeder net.....

[fishboy]

jellies are fun to keep, hard to feed. Though, unlike fish, they feal no stress do to lack of a brain

[Fishboy93]

yeah this type is incredibly hard to see but they dont sting so you can hold them in your hand...they also look cool under a UV light..

[flamingo]

hmmm...never kept a jelly and never want to...

And actually jellyfish do have brains...barely...

Some like the box jellyfish have bigger ones though...others are just very small....they can feel pain but prolly not much at all.

[fishboy]

Originally Posted by flamingonhot

And actually jellyfish do have brains...barely....

Wut are you talking about? I wrote a bio paper on jellies. They have a nerve net system(nerves are designed in a spaced out checkerboard) which contains additional nerve ring for bell control. This entire system contains no ganglia or any remote type of brain power. In fact the nerves are so widely placed that if you stab a Jelly with a pencil it is unlikely that you hit a nerve. But if you stroke one, you hit several. You won't find simple inverts with anything remotely like a brain till you get to flatworms which contain ganglia, I believe. And you won't find simple creatures with full brains till you get to mollusks.

Sorry for ranting, but I love science

[TheOldSalt]

Hehehe... science is cool.

jellies are a pain to keep, but i like them anyway. One of these years i might just get myself a kreisel and get a bunch of 'em. ( kreisel= a special rotating tank which keeps jellies suspended in the water )

Cassiopeia Upside-down jellies are pretty neat, too. They're easy to keep since they just sit on the bottom, and their symbiotic algae gives them a wide range of pretty colors. I saw a few hundred-thousand of them down in the Keys once, and it looked like a giant flower garden.

[Fishboy93]

Yeah in 7th grade at our school we do this thing called Sea Camp where you go to Big Pine Key and learn stuff. We were playing a man hunt type of game in a mangrove swamp and me and two friends got mauled by like 50 Cassiopeia jellies

[Fishboy93]

Going collecting hopefully tuesday so i will take some pics...

[flamingo]

kk osrry about that.

I just saw a thing about jellyfish like 3 week sago and I remembered that they said box jellyfish have brains, they said that other ones did but barely of anything. ANd that ven though the bexes had them all they could do is see light and movement and that stuff.

oh well don't know much about jellies so yeah lol.

[Fishboy93]

did you see killer jellyfish on discovery channel?? somethin i saw awhile ago..