I have been searching around this website for months and finnally decided to join. I am a novice fish keeper having only kept Goldfish, African Cichlids, and Tropical fish. I decided my next setup would be a native biotope. Im glad to be a member of this forum.

Welcome to the forum
We have a quarterly magazine and a trading dock, too, if you'd like to join NANFA. It's also usually less expensive to register for our annual convention, which next year will be in North Carolina.
http://www.nanfa.org/join.shtml
http://forum.nanfa.o...-north-carolina

If you have any questions about captive care and tank setup feel free to ask them here. I love Florida's fishes. There are some of the most colorful nano-sized fish in the country there. Elassoma gilberti (black and neon blue), heterandria formosa, leptolucana ommata (lemon yellow), etc. Here's an list with some pictures of some of the fish: http://www.flmnh.ufl...gladesfish.html
(lol, I did not know about this one. How funny looking http://www.flmnh.ufl...illifish.html )

Hello and welcome! I'm from Florida, too, although I moved away almost 15 years ago, and have fond memories of collecting both freshwater and saltwater fish while growing up there. I keep two FL biotopes myself: a semi-tidepool saltwater setup with Z. sociatus zoanthids and C. sertularioides macroalgae, for Molly Miller blennies; and another 50G cube planted with E. montevidensis hairgrass and Najas grass--still deciding on the inhabitants for that one. The people here are great--hope you enjoy it.

(lol, I did not know about this one. How funny looking http://www.flmnh.ufl...illifish.html )

Adinia xenica (diamond killie) is a great fish. It is a brackish-to-salt water species, however.