aandtsociety low tide collecting trip

Saltliquid

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Another great trip.

The weather wasn’t the best, there were a few showers, but there was some shelter and when it stoped, it was great.
Feeder shrimp, peppermint shrimp, seahorses, little ocys, crayfish and a small Chelmon, I won’t put the Chelmon pic on as we see heaps of them and I forget what else was gotten as these are the only pics I have to use.

No one wanted any seahorses at the moment so none of them were taken, only one pipe fish was wanted and this is the first time for ages a little ocy was kept, they are normally a pain as they escape easily, so they are always left behind, the area it was put in, there is no escape and it can be fed and looked after easily.

Lots of peppermint shrimp around as there has always been here since the first time I came to this spot in the late 70s with my brother.

The life forms are a little greater in numbers than over the past 6 or 8 years as the water the last two seasons did not get very cold so there is a bumper year out there for all life forms except the corals, they did very badly and the algae did very well, but that is always the way, when the algae blooms the corals go down, shame, it has been like that for three years now and the coral numbers a diminishing.

The crabs, lobsters, prawns and eating fish are doing so well these days; in some areas you can hardly see the bottom of the ocean!

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ocy &

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The ocy is in a small section of the scrubber,it took a shrimp out of my hands after 2 days and the pipe fish is in the open area of the scrubber as once it settles in there it goes to the clubbies tank.

There is a lot of natural foods in there to get it to settle down and then do really well.

The shrimp and little fish we shared,the ones i got are for my lion fishes,there are 16 in there so they need a lot of feeding.

The female shrimp go in the scrubber until there eggs have hatched than gone and than the are lion fish food.
 
we have a ball!!!

we have a ball!!!

we are very lucky as to what we are so close to.

There is a thread that has nearly been finished in our reistered members section of the clubs forum about a trip four days ago that was a mind blower.

It was better than something you could call paradise.

The spotted cray in the photos had to suffer a stupid mistake i made two days ago.

On a recent trip we got a clown trigger or two and i forgot it was in with the little cray.

The second day the clown trigger had completely devoured the poor cray.

I was going to move it and i was to late,it owned where it was until the trigger came along,i was to slow!
 
that is really cool. i know someone in SC and ive found interesting things there but nothing like that.
 
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