Paul B
Premium Member
I just came back from collecting amphipods and there is nothing but crabs where there should be amphipods. All my life I have been collecting amphipods but now all of the available space is over run with tiny 1/8" japanese Shore Crabs. Millions of them, billions, nothing but crabs.
I also got shrimp and these wierd looking things that I have always called stick things. They are, well stick looking things with long arms, legs, pincers and more arms, legs pincers etc. I have always collected them but I never found out what they are. I dump them in my reef but I don't think they thrive because I never find any in a few days.
I will try to take a picture but they are tiny so I doubt that will work.
So now I have hundreds of crabs that I can't put in my reef and no amphipods.
I have a rope hanging in the water near my boat and I usually lift it and let the amphipods fall into a bucket. All tiny crabs, not one amphipod so I assume the crabs are eating them. I am not sure what this will do to the eco system but next year we will be over run with these crabs.
There is also a lot of that red sponge that I feed to moorish Idols but I don't have an idol now so I didn't collect any of that.
Crabs crabs crabs crabs crabs:fun5:
I also got shrimp and these wierd looking things that I have always called stick things. They are, well stick looking things with long arms, legs, pincers and more arms, legs pincers etc. I have always collected them but I never found out what they are. I dump them in my reef but I don't think they thrive because I never find any in a few days.
I will try to take a picture but they are tiny so I doubt that will work.
So now I have hundreds of crabs that I can't put in my reef and no amphipods.
I have a rope hanging in the water near my boat and I usually lift it and let the amphipods fall into a bucket. All tiny crabs, not one amphipod so I assume the crabs are eating them. I am not sure what this will do to the eco system but next year we will be over run with these crabs.
There is also a lot of that red sponge that I feed to moorish Idols but I don't have an idol now so I didn't collect any of that.
Crabs crabs crabs crabs crabs:fun5: