How rare is this?

[tufacody]

Yea, nothing like tidepools, no matter where you are. I gre up on the coast of NH/Me andused to love playing in the tidepools. Even there there was no end to the urchins, starfish and crabs you could find. Even though I moved to MN many years ago, I always make it a point when I go back to NH to take my kids and let them play in the tidepools as well.

Last summer I visitied my folks who retired to Clearwater, Fl. While wandering the beach I found a fully-grown queen angel washed up on the sand but still breathing. Although it must have been dying, I scooped it up, but it back in the surf, and it swam away! There is just nothing like those experiences. We can react with our tanks everyday but reacting with these animals in the wild is a whole different level.

 

[lgndrympterry]

hey Lewy i can view these pics your speaking about in this whole forum. Can u maybe pm them to me or e-mail them. <<email removed>>.
Also I have a pair of the Black and White Ocellaris clowns, and they are tank bred but do come from austraila. I really appreicate that you bought the tank bred ones rather than taking them home. Its keeping the reef alive, which is the most important thing.
I was wondering if these clowns will host into a rose bubble tip. Also I have them in a 125 with an Orange ocellaris and they dont fight.

 

[Korrine]

Dude, I wouldn't put your email on a worldwide website. PM him.

 

[REEF-n-Chicago]

very, very cool!

 

[acrodave]

What are the collection laws like were you are at. can you take rock and fish just like that..what about corals

 

[Lewy]

Collection laws are pretty lapse at this stage. As a hobbiest we are allowed to collect fish and corals for our own personal use.

But things might change next year as there are always individuals that ruin it for everyone.

There are only 6 collection licences up here and they are complaining that the hobbiest are taking away business from them.

In reality only two or three of the holders are actually collecting for the retail market and the rest are holding onto them hoping to sell them for a profit. One only collects hermit crabs from what I have heard.

Were they currently collect is around the Gove region to the East. That is where a collector got taken by a crocodile a few years ago.

The coastline is huge around where we are and largely unaccessable when the monsoon season hits. So the impact of the hobbiest is so minimal that it isn't funny.

 

[criccio]

Lewy, do you ever see any other clown species in the Darwin area? Also, are there any other hosting nems that the black o's are found in other then the S. gigantea?

 

[Lewy]

We also have Amphiprion rubrocintus or black clown fish. You can find them on virtually every bubble tip anemone you see up here. They are really aggressive to other fish and get up to 140mm in length. Very aggressive I ahve been told to divers.

The bubble tips that they host in are very prolific and get very large and split regularly in the aquarium

 

[criccio]

I was wondering if the rubros were in the same waters, good to know. There is a pic of a pair I have in my gallery.

Thanks

 

[Lewy]

The pic you have is them. I always get them confused with Tomatoes.

The rubros do change colour when they grow larger and the adults are downright ugly. Very cute as juveniles though.

 

[CA2OR]

wow great pic's please post more. Wish I lived there

 

[criccio]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13958245#post13958245 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Lewy
The pic you have is them. I always get them confused with Tomatoes.

The rubros do change colour when they grow larger and the adults are downright ugly. Very cute as juveniles though.

Here's a local to you that caught some real young ones... http://www.masa.asn.au/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=195065&highlight=rubrocinctus

 

[Lewy]

Yeah I now the guy.

 

[trigger24/7]

Some nice pictures you got there.

 

[Lewy]

Next year when the tides are good again. I'll go to our other collection place and take some more.

Completely different with large pools of large acro table. Very cool. It is only really accessable during certain tides as you have to cross a channel to get to it.

 

[Lewy]

Went out again today.

Have a look closely at the rock that was totally covered with anemones. There are four on top that were closed up due to being out of the water.

 

[SirusX1721]

Awesome Pix! That would be cool to experience something like that. And those crabs are makin' me hungry : )

 

[colorfan45]

would love to have all that in my back yard:eek1:

 

[Henryreef]

This makes me want to move closer to a real reef

 

[LukFox]

I wish the tide pools here were that amazing . Truly beautiful pictures.