I overdid it with amphipods

[Paul B]

Today it was a beautiful day so my wife, I and another friend went out on my boat. We anchored where I usually do right off a tide pool in the Long Island Sound. I took my dinghy to the tide pool to do a little collecting and it is now officially amphipod season. I go here almost every week to collect and this week and maybe 2 more weeks the amphipods must be either spawning or playing soccer or just partying because it is the start of summer. They are all over the place and all I had to do was put my arm in the water and it was covered in amphipods. I collected a few thousand in a couple of minutes. Then, like always I dumped them in my reef but I think it was to much although the fish felt like they died and went to heaven. I probably collected a quarter of a pint, without water. That's a lot of amphipods and they filled my reef. I already still had plenty of them from last year so they can make new friends.
Here are some on a leaf.




Here is a video of some I took last year, they look the same this year so make believe I just took this today. I collected many more times this today.

 

[madadi]

do you rinse them before you put them in the tank?

 

[Paul B]

No, I want the bacteria that come with them.

 

[Paul B]

Today was a beautiful day so my wife and I went out with my friend and his wife to anchor where we always go a few yards off a tide pool in the Long Island Sound. I went to this spot yesterday and collected more amphipods that I could fit in my tank so I wasn't really collecting today. Just checking out the killer amphipods and other sea life. Our wives stayed in the boat and spoke about women things, I have no idea what that is, and don't want to. My closest friend and dive partner narrated this Spielberg film. These are videos and it was an underwater camera so you have to put your volume up.

 

[Zacktosterone]

So many amhpipods....

 

[wildman926]

Very cool Mr. B. I wish I were located near a source like you. You have so much fun....

 

[Paul B]

Yes I do, I just came back from that tide pool but I have so many amphipods that I only hung out with them and didn't take any. Amphipods to the left of me, amphipods to the right of me, I can't move with all these amphipods.
It's like Supermodels, they are just all over the place. :eek2:

 

[LeslieP]

Hmmm - I'm on the other side of the Sound - I'm going to have to stroll down to the beach and try to find some tidal pools to harvest myself!! Did you even try to gather them with a net or were they just crawling all over everything?

 

[Paul B]

A net will not do it. You need to lift rocks at low tide and swirl them in a bucket of water. They don't do much free swimming.

 

[LeslieP]

Thanks - better get me a bucket!!!

 

[FullBoreReefer]

Send me some!

 

[Paul B]

I can't even give them away. 3 people were supposed to pict them up and all 3 cancelled.
I had so many I had to change the water twice a day until I got tired and many of them died. The rest I threw in my tank. I am going there to the tide pool again today but I won't collect any as I don't need any more and I am not going to hold them any more.
Before the summer is over I will collect again for the winter or maybe I will set up a vat just for them, but it would have to cycle for about a month.
The last time I mailed them, the guy thanked me for the boiled shrimp so I don't mail them either.
You mid westerners just have to move here by the sea. :lol2:

 

[Nina51]

do you have a room i could rent?

p.s., if it makes any difference, i am a super model.

 

[Paul B]

Actually, I have 5 of them. And being you are a Supermodel, I will pay you.

 

[andex23]

looks awesome, I am surprised they survive the temperature gradient. seems like the water parameters would be very different.

 

[Paul B]

looks awesome, I am surprised they survive the temperature gradient. seems like the water parameters would be very different.

I collect amphipods in a shallow tide pool that is formed at low tide, during that time fresh water from a lake fills the pool making it fresh enough to raise kissing gouramies in. The temp goes into the 90s. I have also collected the same amphipods under the ice in the middle of winter. They seem to be very stupid animals and don't care about salinity, temperature or what re hab facility Lindsey Lohan is in at the moment. I don't acclimate them, sing to them or do anything else but throw them in my reef. They are very hardy and you have to step on them to kill them, twice.

 

[pmrossetti]

looks like a sci fi movie.

 

[johnike]

do you have a room i could rent?

p.s., if it makes any difference, i am a super model.

It's true Paul.
An she makes a mean meatloaf.

 

[Nina51]

i'll give you a pass on this one but if you even THINK about posting that other one...

 

[johnike]

This is not the place...