Did the freeze help anybody else??

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kakojones

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Not sure if this is the right place but hey:

We went out to Myakka State Park (big rain fed lake leading to a river) yesterday to do some collecting for my friend's pond o' natives and found dead tilapia and plecos as far as the eye could see. Seems the freeze got rid of a bunch of invasives. There were a few dead blue gills (maybe 10 out of 1000's of fish) and about five dead snook, but the rest was plecos and tilapia. Guess mother nature takes care of the invasives sometimes.

I doubt all the tilapia and plecos are dead but it's still something to let the natives catch up again.

needless to say we didn't do much collecting since we didn't want to walk through the dead fish.
 
Deacon: Myakka is in sarasota florida and there was a two day freeze about a week or so ago.

Davo: I have only seen the common ones that I have collected. I'm sure there are others, but here we only see the commons and that's all that we saw floating (although some of those could have been different species, they were all bloated and changing colors and most had been partially eaten by birds and stuff)
 
I heard about the freeze on the news. Apparently it took out a ton of iguanas too.
 
kakojones;1425911; said:
Deacon: Myakka is in sarasota florida and there was a two day freeze about a week or so ago.

Davo: I have only seen the common ones that I have collected. I'm sure there are others, but here we only see the commons and that's all that we saw floating (although some of those could have been different species, they were all bloated and changing colors and most had been partially eaten by birds and stuff)
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You see the big dens the plecos make to breed, it is amazing. In the canals down there are thousands of holes in the walls that the pleco dig out to breed.

Hate to hear about the snook dying off though.
 
the freeze pppfffff you floridians are spoiled. Try -40 degrees Fahrenheit. I can take a cup of warm water and throw it up in the air and watch it fall to the ground as ice.

One cold day in Florida and its like a national emergency. Replace one of your 6 ar conditioners with a heating unit and you will be fine ahahahah

sorry I am just jelious
 
Chago09: i was gonna say, I wasn't complaining about the freeze. I was just seeing if anyone else found a bunch of dead invasives.

reverse: There weren't to many snooks, just the couple that got land locked in the lake after they ended up in there to get away from red tide.
 
a few snook dying is okay when you consider how many invasives are gone.
 
dont talk about florida cold till you experience it. its bone chilling, i can run around up north naked in 20* and be fine, but i come outside here and my body starts braking down.

the iguanas didnt die, they just stopped there boddy or something I forget where I read it.

I lost most of my fish outside, and a couple inside :(
 
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