Anyone catch their own fish for their tank

JFrar · Feb 2, 2015

I'm in brevard florida and we used to go to the sebastian inlet and catch tropical fish... the prized catch out the there is a french angel which we've got 4-5 over hte past few years... but we kinda stopped because we lost 2-3 on our own and the other 2 we just did not keep....they seemed to keep dying so i just stopped..rather leave them out there

But, the rule is i think 6 angelfish can be caught in one day as long as there over 0.5'' and we honored that.... there are assorted damsels out there too which have no limit

TJ's Reef · Feb 2, 2015

I've collected many of the Fish and Inverts in my Reeftank from Hawaii. Mostly from Snorkeling or Tide Pool collections with a hand net at night. All have been small juvenile's which I feel is a more responsible and sustainable practice in collection.

Cheers, Todd

P.S. I collected all Fish and Inverts under a 'Personal Aquarium Collection' permit from the Hawaii DLNR

Sea J · Feb 2, 2015

Yeah I'm gonna do some research on permits for smaller fish..I have to get a bigger tank thou so I have a buddy that will sell his 150g for 300..great deal for me and big enough to store the fish I want from my part of the ocean...I wish I could make a pelagic tank with small dolphin, sailfish and wahoo as when I go swordfish in we catch them in our nets while trying to get tinker macs...pretty cool stuff

cracker · Feb 2, 2015

I "think" You can purchase commercial collecting license ? I "do know" You can't keep a small game fish. A swimming pool would be cool. If You lived on the water for constant clean water, You could keep legal reds maybe a snook. Shoot You could keep a bunch of spiny lobsters as long as they were legal! A strawberry group maybe? couple of stingrays. You would need a constant supply of finger mullet to feed. That would be cool! I think Marine Land was for sale some years back, 7 million if I'm not mistaken.