Well enjoy and any info on the fish and/or ID verification would be nice. Especially on the possible blue fin killie. Or any of them actually. All input will be gratefully recieved. I was sure excited to see these fish.
Daniel
Posted 07 March 2009 - 03:32 PM
Posted 08 March 2009 - 03:39 PM
Just thought I would share and also see if anyone else has come accross these type of fish. One I think is the black and white spotted mollie that they have down there. Another is the sailfin mollie bu the color of these are awesome. After googling florida mollies I read that the regular sailfin mollie would interbreed with the normal mollie down there. Is this what I possibly saw. The spotted mollie and a regular sailfin cross in the attached photos. And in one I think I see a blue fin killie.
Well enjoy and any info on the fish and/or ID verification would be nice. Especially on the possible blue fin killie. Or any of them actually. All input will be gratefully recieved. I was sure excited to see these fish.
Daniel
Posted 08 March 2009 - 04:00 PM
Posted 08 March 2009 - 07:14 PM
Posted 08 March 2009 - 09:57 PM
I've seen the exact color combination of the prominent black/white/yellow guy in the first picture on Gambusia affinis in coastal SC.
Posted 09 March 2009 - 09:25 AM
Posted 09 March 2009 - 09:35 AM
Poecilia latipinna (Lesueur 1821); Sailfin Molly
and one
Lucania goodei Jordan 1880; Bluefin Killifish
Posted 10 March 2009 - 11:48 AM
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Posted 12 March 2009 - 05:43 PM
Posted 12 March 2009 - 07:10 PM
Edited by critterguy, 12 March 2009 - 07:10 PM.
Posted 12 March 2009 - 08:14 PM
Definitely Sailfin molly (Poecilia latipinna). I've caught many spotted individuals in southern Florida and they seemed to be most common in marshes near the coast. Both Gambusia and golden topminnow (Fundulus chrysotus) can also have this spotted pattern.
Marcus
Posted 12 March 2009 - 08:21 PM
Not sure you are talking about the same fish as the others. There is no doubt about the sailfin mollies in the photos. The fish in question is the black and white slim speckeled one in the top right corner in one of the photos. Some think mosquito fish (gambusia) and some think regular molly (non sail fin type) I kind of think it is a molly and not a gambusia but the photo is really not at the right angle to determine. I have looked at some of my other shots that I have not posted and blew them up to examine and I am still not sure. So it goes with trying to ID a fish without enough of the fish to ID.
Daniel
Posted 12 March 2009 - 08:22 PM
Does anyone have an opinion whether these melanistic mollies are truly wild or if they have some fishfarm blood in them?
Posted 14 March 2009 - 12:59 AM
Posted 14 March 2009 - 07:02 AM
I vote sailfin molly, not dambusia.
Never seen a dambusia with distinct yellow, but it's common in brackish water native mollies of Florida.
Never seen a dambusia with distinct flash of electric sky blue in the tail, but it's common in male native mollies.
Never seen a male dambusia that was as long or longer than a heavy-bodied (adult) female native molly, but that is common in well-grown male native mollies.
But then again there's a lot of things I've never seen.
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d.d.
Edited by nativecajun, 14 March 2009 - 07:06 AM.
Posted 14 March 2009 - 12:19 PM
Just to try to clear things up. Again I think you are speaking of the wrong fish in question. There is no doubt on the sailfin mollies. I will attach the fish in question so that maybe everyone will know from now on what fish we are talking about. Again the sailfins everyone has no question about it is the black and white speckeled fish which I will post a couple of photos that I cropped right here. The photos will seem very pixelated because I cropped into them a lot. But I think you can get a better handle on things here with these photos of fish in question. I am beggining to think gambusia but like i said before I do not think there is enough angle on the side of the fish to really tell. But by the size one would think mosquito fish but IDUNO
Thanks,
Daniel
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