sighting cichlids in the Everglades
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If possible, I wanted to catch a bunch of juvie Mayans and bring them back, but all I saw were adults. I figured juvies might make the 3 day drive back home to the tundra, but not adults. There's always next year.
Really cool. I've always wondered exactly which cichlids were in Florida now days.... I new about peacock bass n I heard oscars too, but never knew what else. I wonder if dovii or umbee or festae could make it there...
I was 'net' fishing the Tamiami Trail in mid December and ended up catching several 2" T. mariae and Hemichromis bimaculatus along with Fundulus chrysotus 'melanistic', Jordanella floridae, Lucania goodei, and lots of little sunfish too small to identify. I got the rod out and hooked an Oscar and what looked to be a sunfish of some sort. Many people fishing the canal along side of the road had large Oscars, Red Devils, and Tilapia in their buckets ... for food
. One cool experience ... got to go back soon!!
My dad worked in Miami for about a year when I was in middle school and we went castnetting in the retention pond behind his apartment building one weekend. The whole pond was full of a spawning cichlid that I couldn't identify but I loved them so much. I brought some home and took pictures of them, then sent them to a cichlid guy online and found out they were port cichlids. Thus, my love of acaras was born. 
That nasty freeze we had a few years ago killed off a ton of invasive stuff (which is a good thing). You could just drive by ditches and see thousands of dead little fish. The tropicals weren't built to withstand 7+ days of temperatures in the 20s.
That nasty freeze we had a few years ago killed off a ton of invasive stuff (which is a good thing). You could just drive by ditches and see thousands of dead little fish. The tropicals weren't built to withstand 7+ days of temperatures in the 20s.
