Angler/Frogfish

Today I went to the beach and some freak current must have washed a few hundred baby anglers (about 1 cm long) on the shore. Since I live in Florida, anglers live around here, but I have never seen so many tiny ones being washed in. So i scooped up as many as I could (about 60) and put the bucket aside while I went fishing. When I came back, none were left. Someone took them. It was getting dark so I managed to find 6 more before leaving.
The 6 anglers/frogfish are in QT right now while I'm dosing with herbtana micro-lift. I would really like to keep them. They are so small that I might have to start feeding them amphipods. There's no way they could eat feeder ghost shrimp.
But my main question is, can they be put in my main REEF aquarium in a few weeks after QT? When they get larger I was planning on putting them in a FOWLR aquarium. Will this work? I think they are some sort of Atlantic dwarf angler though....

 

First things first, is it legal to collect for a private aquarium in Florida? (I don't know, that's why I am asking)

Second: I bet the first batch got used as bait... how ironic...

 

your gonna get a lot of heat here for taking them. im all for it because they would have died, but just be prepared

 

Yeah, it's legal, but you have a certain limit on tropical fish and soft corals.
I was going to let most of the anglers in the first batch go, but someone probably used them as flounder bait.
The anglers are are kind of drab looking with a few markings.

 

Why does it matter so much that I caught a few anglers if most of the fish in this hobby are w/c anyway?

 

I didn't see or here anything about that over here, so you must be on the east coast. Do you know what kind of angler they are?

 

You can keep anglers in reef tanks, just bare in mind that they will eat anything that can fit in their mouths.

 

hey man, its no biggy really, just make sure its legal, all anglers are wild caught and its no big deal because there are so many of them! when you get done QT them, i want one if youll ship. just putting that out there, but make sure its legal first!!

 

try brine shrimp and mysis shrimp to get them to eat.

 

I live near panama city/Destin. I don't know if they are baby ones that just hatched and the current picked them up, or if they're adults, because some of them looked extremely fat (it looked as If some had eggs).
And I don't think their dorsal spines are fully formed, because they were really flimsy.
I still have no idea what they are. I can email a pic to someone from my phone (camera's at the repair shop).