What's in florida?

Hybridfish7

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What sp. of exotic fish are currently in florida (that I don't know of)?
so far I know there's
blue/nile tilapia
mozambique tilapia
spotted tilapia
buttikoferi tilapia
hemichromis fasciatus/elongatus
hemichromis lifalili
aquarium strain convicts
port acaras
black acaras
vieja melanura
amphilophus citrillenum/labiatus
cichla ocellatus
cichla temensis
channa micropeltes occasionally
bullseye snakeheads
red tail catfish
tiger shovelnose catfish
pacu
mayan cichlids
t.salvini
oscars
jags
common plecos
brown hoplos
clown knives
bettas sometimes
severums sometimes
that weird long eel looking catfish i forgot the name of, probably walking catfish
sailfin mollies
platies
swordtails?
guppies/endlers
ancistrus sometimes
firemouths
dovii
can there possibly be ANYTHING else?
 
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These seemed to be the most often dumped. Yea these are all there. Seen flowerhorns and a bichir from photos.
 
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oh i almost forgot blood parrots. seen around 3
 

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I’ve seen your posts Hybridfish7 Hybridfish7 and it appears to me that you can go far in this hobby if you stay down this route, I see you ending up something like duanes, you’re an earlier version of Hendre if you will.
 

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I sure hope so, I plan on studying marine bio in college and getting into aquaculture after.
 

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Ive seen peacock bass and also grass carp these two are pretty common and there is two types of nonnative eels in Florida the asian swamp eels and also peacock eels.
 

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i listed p bass
cichla ocellatus is the butterfly peacock
im not sure on the common name for temenesis but i know it's alot less common
iirc there's a third sp in there too but i forgot which it was
 
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