Hello, Geezer coming back to this forum. Paul B
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Hopefully she gets better soon!
Paul B
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The beach behind my house is all rocks like all Long Island Sound beaches. I would mush rather walk on a rocky beach than our south shore beaches which are just pure white sand which I find very boring. You never see anything interesting on a clean sandy beach although swimming is probably better there.
I also did almost all my SCUBA diving on the Sound because just like in a reef tank, fish prefer rocks to sand.
I also did almost all my SCUBA diving on the Sound because just like in a reef tank, fish prefer rocks to sand.
Paul B
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This morning on my beach walk it was very windy so the sea was rough. These horse shoe crabs have been on Earth for 100,000,000,000 years and they haven't yet learned not to go into shallow water on a windy day where they will get thrown up on the beach and their tail spine will be useless to turn them over because it only wotks under water. I rescued about a dozen today. Like Really!!!
Vinny Kreyling
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GD will keep you both on your toes!
Paul B
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This morning like yesterday it is cool and windy. Not great weather to go amphipod collecting but I went anyway because the rocky coast is on my morning walk. I only go walking at about 6:00 am and at that time no one will see this fish Geek walking around with a pail turning over rocks like a 5 year old.
Last week you could put your shoe in the muddy water under rocks and come up with a thousand amphipods, but today was different.
Almost every rock had under it crabs. Japanese Shore crabs which are an invasive species and took over just about every inch of real estate so they are here to stay.
But the adult amphipods were gone. Not one. I don't know if it was to cold (71 degrees) I doubt it, or it was Prom night.
I couldn't collect even one adult amphipod but I got a lot of mud and these limpets which are extremely common.
They won't live more than a few months in my tank but occasionally I collect them just because I can. I may throw them back in the sea in a few weeks.
Looking closely at that muddy water, now that I am home, I see that I did collect multides of baby amphipods and other microscope creatures which will all go in my tank. I also see that I collected many very tiny Japanese Shore crabs which I will not add to my tank. They are not very harmful and grow to about an inch but I don't want them and may put them in a small tank just for the coolness factor or I may mail them back to Japan.
I mainly want the mud which contains all sorts of bacteria which I feel is beneficial to my tank and probably also harbors what many hobbyists would consider pathogens. These will not harm anything and will only help to boost the immunity of my fish.
Last week you could put your shoe in the muddy water under rocks and come up with a thousand amphipods, but today was different.
Almost every rock had under it crabs. Japanese Shore crabs which are an invasive species and took over just about every inch of real estate so they are here to stay.
But the adult amphipods were gone. Not one. I don't know if it was to cold (71 degrees) I doubt it, or it was Prom night.
I couldn't collect even one adult amphipod but I got a lot of mud and these limpets which are extremely common.
They won't live more than a few months in my tank but occasionally I collect them just because I can. I may throw them back in the sea in a few weeks.
Looking closely at that muddy water, now that I am home, I see that I did collect multides of baby amphipods and other microscope creatures which will all go in my tank. I also see that I collected many very tiny Japanese Shore crabs which I will not add to my tank. They are not very harmful and grow to about an inch but I don't want them and may put them in a small tank just for the coolness factor or I may mail them back to Japan.
I mainly want the mud which contains all sorts of bacteria which I feel is beneficial to my tank and probably also harbors what many hobbyists would consider pathogens. These will not harm anything and will only help to boost the immunity of my fish.
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Those limpets look huge
Paul B
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It's a beautiful morning so I went out at 5:30 to watch the sunrise out of the sea. That never gets old.
Interestingly, in the background of that picture where you see that last hill go into the water, there are 5 WW1 shipwrecks half way up the beach. They were not military ships and now just some wooden hull planks remain.
Sometimes I walk there and it is a 3 mile walk round trip.
The seagulls also enjoyed it.
I turned over some rocks and found a baby eel. I didn't take it.
Interestingly, in the background of that picture where you see that last hill go into the water, there are 5 WW1 shipwrecks half way up the beach. They were not military ships and now just some wooden hull planks remain.
Sometimes I walk there and it is a 3 mile walk round trip.
The seagulls also enjoyed it.
I turned over some rocks and found a baby eel. I didn't take it.
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Looks like a nice step for in front of the fish tank for small kids
Paul B
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I am in a conundrum. This leather coral grew to a foot high and it is hitting the front glass and wants to stick to it.
I need to move it but it grew on a DIY rock that takes up about a quarter of my tank so I will have to remove many pounds of rock to re locate it.
It needs to be done but I have to work my way up to it. I also will get a new shoulder in 2 weeks so everything will be on hold that requires my left arm.
I need to move it but it grew on a DIY rock that takes up about a quarter of my tank so I will have to remove many pounds of rock to re locate it.
It needs to be done but I have to work my way up to it. I also will get a new shoulder in 2 weeks so everything will be on hold that requires my left arm.
