Saltliquid
New member
There are always trips by the club into our wonderful marine environment to get our own marine/reef aquarium species, as usual.
The aandtsociety has been doing field trips for both marine and freshwater aquarium species since the late 1920s.
The club doesn't promote the freshwater side of things anymore, the name associated with us now is (marine/reef aquarium society) we have been mainly marine keepers for a long time and its time to only show what we know best, collecting and keeping of marine fish and inverts, also attaining a wealth of knowledge in the collection of our marine pets.
We are lucky in that we do not have to rely on how good or how bad pro collectors have handled their catch that they sell to the shops, or the way the fish have been imported into auz,than you have to take what is available there, using careful catching and transporting ways, we get our own!
The club has only been on the net for a few years, so there isn't much pictorial history of the vast experiences we have had the pleasure of partaking in over the years, but if you want to see our many trips beyond the few pics on our thread here, than follow this link, its where all trips are, since we started taking photos of the trips.
http://marinereefaquariumfo.aforumfree.com/f18-marine-fish-and-invert-collecting
These peppermint shrimp were from a low tide rock pool trip, lots around at the moment, hundreds seen, also there were far more boxer shrimp, some blennies and gobies as well, these weren't kept, still interesting to see the different varieties though, it makes for a good day at the marine habitat.
The day provided some quality caulerpa amongst many brilliant marine life forms to try and remember their latern names.
A Lemon peel angel, along with a clown trigger and some colourful cardinals,etc, it is just one of several fish collected for Marks massive tank.
A beautiful and surprisingly friendly mature pair of latezonatus amphiprions, with a young perideraion, some young akindynos and as usual a few young trimaculatus,all living with the latz.
This is one of the few anemone fish that will tolerate and live with other damsel family varieties happily, the family all amphiprions are a part of as well.
Non of these were touched, this is from a photo trip only, they certainly make for a nice group photo,lol.
One of the three sharks hanging around on the photo only day.
One of the guys insisted it was a young grey nurse, but some one else has said it isn't, the two others checking us out that day were grey nurse though.
Personaly, it was a bit to sleek and quick for a grey nurse, plus I am not interested in sharks, they are seen regularly by us on certain trips, not organised club trips, just members trips, but as long as they keep at a distance, the aquarium species are far more interesting.
Sharks are not an issue really, most are cowards, even the whites we have seen, but at this spot.it's not rare to see sharks, there are no club collecting trips to these types of spots, and this was for the ones keen for photos only.
The aandtsociety has been doing field trips for both marine and freshwater aquarium species since the late 1920s.
The club doesn't promote the freshwater side of things anymore, the name associated with us now is (marine/reef aquarium society) we have been mainly marine keepers for a long time and its time to only show what we know best, collecting and keeping of marine fish and inverts, also attaining a wealth of knowledge in the collection of our marine pets.
We are lucky in that we do not have to rely on how good or how bad pro collectors have handled their catch that they sell to the shops, or the way the fish have been imported into auz,than you have to take what is available there, using careful catching and transporting ways, we get our own!
The club has only been on the net for a few years, so there isn't much pictorial history of the vast experiences we have had the pleasure of partaking in over the years, but if you want to see our many trips beyond the few pics on our thread here, than follow this link, its where all trips are, since we started taking photos of the trips.
http://marinereefaquariumfo.aforumfree.com/f18-marine-fish-and-invert-collecting
These peppermint shrimp were from a low tide rock pool trip, lots around at the moment, hundreds seen, also there were far more boxer shrimp, some blennies and gobies as well, these weren't kept, still interesting to see the different varieties though, it makes for a good day at the marine habitat.
The day provided some quality caulerpa amongst many brilliant marine life forms to try and remember their latern names.
A Lemon peel angel, along with a clown trigger and some colourful cardinals,etc, it is just one of several fish collected for Marks massive tank.
A beautiful and surprisingly friendly mature pair of latezonatus amphiprions, with a young perideraion, some young akindynos and as usual a few young trimaculatus,all living with the latz.
This is one of the few anemone fish that will tolerate and live with other damsel family varieties happily, the family all amphiprions are a part of as well.
Non of these were touched, this is from a photo trip only, they certainly make for a nice group photo,lol.
One of the three sharks hanging around on the photo only day.
One of the guys insisted it was a young grey nurse, but some one else has said it isn't, the two others checking us out that day were grey nurse though.
Personaly, it was a bit to sleek and quick for a grey nurse, plus I am not interested in sharks, they are seen regularly by us on certain trips, not organised club trips, just members trips, but as long as they keep at a distance, the aquarium species are far more interesting.
Sharks are not an issue really, most are cowards, even the whites we have seen, but at this spot.it's not rare to see sharks, there are no club collecting trips to these types of spots, and this was for the ones keen for photos only.
