FLORIDA NATIVES UPDATE ON COLLECTING TRIP

Hi there, it is Friday morning. I wanted to show you some of the fish that we caught on our collecting trip and also do a little update on the three battery jars. One of which looks good, the other two of which look terrible. So let's take a look real quick. this is um let's do the terrible first this one has dead shrimp in it this is uh this is the mud tank with baby tears on top it's showing a definite uh lack of oxygen the the mud obviously has overtaken the ability of the tank to sustain itself we'll see how the plants do they should be able to pull it back. I'm keeping light on it, so we'll see how it goes. There's some scum on the top. It's good to move that out of the way to give CO2 and oxygen a chance to precipitate in and out. Looks pretty nasty. We'll check it again on Sunday. This is one of the sand tanks. Now I added water to this and stirred it up kind of made a mess of it it's uh you can see it's got some strata in it so it's settling and i did see a couple of fish in there there's one back there so it's not killing everything off but it is kind of messy the fact that i'm not using a filter means that the very very fine particulate matter has to precipitate out and that's going to take a while so that's one two here's the third one this is actually the first one we set up with sand plants and a rock and it's looking real good it's cleared up nicely the fish are swimming around these are blue line killies here blue fin killies keep saying that over and over blue fin killies and that is a Formosa, that little tiny one, it's a male the females right above it and that other one you just came back and then left, it's kind of a gold color that's the uh golden top you know, so this has got some fish in it that are looking good the tank's looking pretty good, this is what they all should look like, um we're just going to give them time, they'll settle down, we'll show it again on Sunday Now, I wanna go over here and show you some of the fish that we've caught These on top, these longer fish, are golden top minnows. There are guppies in here too, so you'll have to kind of distinguish That's one, just a very pretty, very pretty little fish Here's a group of them down here Hopefully you can see the sparkle in them. They're kind of shy, they're darting away from the camera Let's see, oh there they there's a group of them The guppies are all looking for food. Let's go over here, we've got more over here I think there's also a Florida flag in here, you might see Few guppies in this as well These are, they're all kind of hiding in the back They're shy little things Down here are bluefin killies and Formosas almost exclusively Of course these are native fish. The Formosa is a tiny live bearer It's one of the smallest live bearers in the world. The Bluefin Killies are just a very pretty little fish. There are some varieties of these that are quite spectacular. They're further north in Florida. Pretty, pretty a little fish. Let's see what's over here. It's all more of the same. These are mostly Formosa. The little eye bears. Here's a group of blue fins. Pretty fish. See, we can't get a really good picture of the golden topminnow. They're such a pretty fish. They're all being very shy. They get much larger. These are inch, inch and a half. I've caught them at four inches, and they're spectacular. The bigger they get, the more color they get. These guys, they show silver flecks in the gold body and some red on the tail, at least among the males. Let's see if I can pick up one or two in here, maybe. Scooting for the back. You can see them going along the back. Well, okay. So, that's it. That's what we got for you today. Just a little quickie to show you some of the things we caught and how the bell jars are doing. We'll post this and it's Friday. We'll do an update on Sunday at our regular 3 p.m. live stream. Take care for now. Father Fish signing off. Ten, nine, eight.