more collecting pics from the aandtsociety

[Saltliquid]

This winter season we need to give thanks for global warming sought of,the oceans temp that used to make up normal winter temps of 16c in the water at this time of year is a nice 19c to 20c,not bad at all.

This will greatly impact of breeding for these waters and survival rates for tropical temp species.

For 11 years now we have not had water temps below 18c in winter and that is big news for fish and non-stationary inverts, but bad news for corals!

Tons of corals lost their lives this last 12 months on the sun shine coast in particular, making a lot of live rock for us aquarium collectors.

From what we have seen possibly 70 to 80 percent of all stags and plate acropora are now dead up there at the shoreline and close to shore reefs.

The only ones hanging in there in some numbers are the akans, don't get me wrong, all will be replaced as the ocean does each time our global warming kills some of it off beyond normal events, its just a shame that this type of thing makes it very hard to find some life for our tanks that in the past were so abundant it was not funny.

So for now we swim along and see the dead coral skeletons in droves and find a bit here and there still alive for us and wait for this years breeding season bringing masses of new life from the great barrier reef and outer reefs to provide new life for the coast and hopefully this year there isn't a major rain event and over warm waters through summer to make it hard for life out there to regenerate.

Some of what has been collected.

Has any one seen a latezonatus and a clarkii pair up in the wild, I mean a tropical and a temperate amphiprion trying to get it on, what the, and in the south east, we don't get clarkii here?

No wonder the clownfish variations change over the years.

These are a few of the beautiful things we get to see.

One of the many varies coloured flat worms around.

A club member and company.

One of the algae's we target for the aquarium or scrubber.

One of the nice calm days to head out for photos and collecting.

Lots of blue surgeons around this season,they love the extra phytoplankton from the excessive rains for their time as planktonic life.

That's it for this time.

 

[brannock_16]

Wow! Great pics. It is truly amazing that a wild clarkii and latz clown would become a pair! I find that absolutely fascinating.

 

[Saltliquid]

When we saw these two in the one anemone doing the little dance that latz normally do before they are about to head for the hills, my first thought, was,a deformed lat?

Than they both took off together and the lat tried to lead me away, so i went about getting some pics of a school of kingfish that had been eye balling me and came back after a while to get what i thought was a deformed lat,there were no other anemones around, no way that they could not be together.

So now they have been living in my tube for a few weeks, waiting for the new reef tank to finish cycling, they get on really well and dance around each other a bit as if they want to lay something, but the others in there would soon put an end to that,lol.

The waters in close around the northern parts of South East Queensland were severely devastated by the floods and the cyclone low depression soon after that, the last time this happened here, but not this bad was in 79 and than 88,the spots that just survived those times were totally wiped out this time.

It's of a huge benefit to the outer reef reproduction processes though, the phytoplankton loves what the massive freshwater flushes pushes out to sea for them to feed on and than feed the planktonic masses growing as they listen and look for an accidental reef find.

Oh well, it will all be renewed soon enough, I just hope these extreme events that global arming attract do not keep increasing as predicted.