Greetings from Pittsburgh, PA! Last year my husband Michael and I had the great pleasure to join your club for a day of collection, and were blessed to meet so many of you, including George and Regina Grippo, whom we are thrilled to be visiting again in less than two weeks now! We were wondering whose been out there poking around the bays and bridges, and what kind of tropicals have been turning up so that we can know what to expect. Last year we brought home nearly 50 fish for the members of the Pittsburgh Marine Aquarium society, and hope to be able to do so again this year!
Anyone make any great tropical finds this season?
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Hi Tom! Yes, you did take me diving last year and it was an unforgettable experience! The snowy grouper we caught is my prized fish! He is doing extremely well! He's about 8 inches now- I have tried REALLY HARD not to overfeed him to keep his growth rate down... I'd love to catch a lionfish or some other large puffer, burr fish, etc. to keep him company!
Would you be up for a dive next Sat. Sept. 6? We would love to meet up again with you, although it's Michael's turn to dive this year as I am pregnant... Just let us know what time to be at the bridge and if we need to we'll get a tank the night before to not run into the problems we had last year with timing... Please let me know!
Would you be up for a dive next Sat. Sept. 6? We would love to meet up again with you, although it's Michael's turn to dive this year as I am pregnant... Just let us know what time to be at the bridge and if we need to we'll get a tank the night before to not run into the problems we had last year with timing... Please let me know!
If the conditions are good I'll gladly take you out. Ironically nobody here really wants the snowy groupers, so there will be lots to see. A lionfish would be a lucky catch, but your grouper would eat it. We won't get any burrfish on the dive, only if you go seining.
John I've never seen an atlantic blue. mostly ocean surgeon, some doctorfish
John I've never seen an atlantic blue. mostly ocean surgeon, some doctorfish
Thanks Tom! We would love to meet up again! I am thinking that maybe I should get a small grouper, give away the one I have, and catch him appropriate tank mates that will grow in pace with him if I possible. I know he is going to eventually outgrow his tank, so if I can get another, I should. I am also in dire need of a school of butterfies. The mojano problem in my tank has reached apocalyptic proportions, and the ones I bought home last year picked every piece of rock I gave them clean as can be. I should have just put them all in the main system, but at the time I had too many corals for them to destroy. Now that isn't a problem because the anemones have choked out most of the corals...
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Went to the bridge this afternoon. Saw a snowy grouper, spotfin bf, lizard fish and loads of adult northern puffers. A rather large puffer stalked and attacked me while i was filming his buddy. You can't see the stalker in the video but you can see my reaction when it went for my hand.
http://youtu.be/X6ABoYS5EgI
http://youtu.be/X6ABoYS5EgI
Nice haul! The leopard print groupers are scamps. We also caught all of the above (ours may have been a trunk fish instead of a cowfish), plus some cool stuff like 2 starry blennies, a really need bumblebee pattern scorpion fish, lots of twin spot butterflies, serveral black-banned puffers, 2 foureyed butterflies, a slipper dick wrasse, and about 2 dozen a Atlantic moon fish (lookdowns)! I'd love to post pics, but I don't know how!
Nope, no large puffers around the bridge, but we were bringing them in by the dozens at Oak Beach (last year we caught ONE and it was less an 1"). This year there were times when we brought up the net and it looked like balloons filling everywhere! LARGE North Atlantic Puffers and many small black-banded tropicals. I'm in the process of adopting out about a half a dozen of the black-banded ones... I felt bad throwing some back, but it got to the point that there were simply too many to rescue them all!
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