Show me your fish and inverts you caught diving
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r-balljunkie
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all of it.
i cant get dr fosters to give me an arrive alive guarantee.
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2016812&highlight=marshall
i cant get dr fosters to give me an arrive alive guarantee.
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2016812&highlight=marshall
r-balljunkie
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Stop that! Not a fair thread.
Johan, not much local, but lots of stuff in the Keys. Make sure you have a valid fishing license and obey the limits.
FYI, Lee county has a no live shelling law. Even hermit crabs apply. Peppermint shrimp are OK. You can find those out on Sanibel this time of year.
Johan, not much local, but lots of stuff in the Keys. Make sure you have a valid fishing license and obey the limits.
FYI, Lee county has a no live shelling law. Even hermit crabs apply. Peppermint shrimp are OK. You can find those out on Sanibel this time of year.
There are, on my personal profile, a couple of fish I've caught for my aquarium. The photos are from a couple of years ago, just after I got back from a Caribbean vacation with the juvenile Spotted Drum in those pics. There is also a pic of a Scrawled Cowfish I caught in NJ as a tiny Gulf stream Stray and a few Short Bigeyes, also local. These pics were all posted on the same day, immediately after returning from a dive trip. Only the Drum was newly caught. I still have that Spotted Drum, now almost a foot long. The Bigeyes and the Cowfish were donated to a Jersey Shore public aquarium after they got too large.
Interestingly, I returned just this morning (3/18/12) from the Caribbean with a couple of Angelfish and some unusual benthic shrimp I collected for friends, plus a small deep purple seafan I'm adding to my reef. I enjoy collecting at least as much keeping aquaria. Except for a Blotched Anthias and a pair of clowns, I've hand collected almost all my fish and inverts. The Anthias was a trade for some Lookdowns three years ago. Collecting is not easy, but it is a piece of cake when compared to transport over long distances and dealing with the clueless TSA, customs inspectors, etc. Local collecting is so much easier.
A new element this trip was lionfish killing. I killed 23 over the course of a week, most very deep, beyond normal sport diving depths. The monsters are spreading like a disease.
Interestingly, I returned just this morning (3/18/12) from the Caribbean with a couple of Angelfish and some unusual benthic shrimp I collected for friends, plus a small deep purple seafan I'm adding to my reef. I enjoy collecting at least as much keeping aquaria. Except for a Blotched Anthias and a pair of clowns, I've hand collected almost all my fish and inverts. The Anthias was a trade for some Lookdowns three years ago. Collecting is not easy, but it is a piece of cake when compared to transport over long distances and dealing with the clueless TSA, customs inspectors, etc. Local collecting is so much easier.
A new element this trip was lionfish killing. I killed 23 over the course of a week, most very deep, beyond normal sport diving depths. The monsters are spreading like a disease.
Where's the like button on this!!!!!:celeb1:
NiTr0x911
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Because most ppl dont have the opportunity to collect their own.Kind of like ppl who pay for Grouper or Snapper etc for dinner.I used to be able to get my own from the ocean when I lived In South Florida.Reason number 1,000 why I miss living in South Fla.
These Lionfish are pure evil, a metastatic malignant cancer. They are Indopacific fish that were stupidly introduced into Florida waters and have spread throughout the Caribbean and as far north as water temps allow, at least to the Carolinas. They are a catastrophe in the making. The next few years will make this clear.
I watched one destroy a group of four cleaner gobies on a coral head in just a few minutes. As the gobies approached the Lionfish gulped them down. Countless generations of evolutionary adaptation make these cleaners unafraid to approach another fish. They will even try to clean your hand. Indigenous fishes leave them alone because of genetic programming that makes them off limits, gives them an immunity to predation. Lionfish, being aliens, do not have this programming. As the cleaner fish and shrimp disappear disease problems on the reef will spiral out of control.
I saw Lionfish eat small French Angels (also cleaners at that size) and a juvenile Spotted Drum. All easy picking for these monsters, whose numbers are increasing at a horrifying rate.
There are some foolish people who oppose the rutheless extermination of alien Lionfish. Their understanding of the natural world and ecological reality is on the same level as a Disney cartoon. It was fools and criminals of this kind who probably dumped their Lionfishes into Florida waters when they were no longer willing or able to care for them. Those morons thought they were being humane. They actually were being more destructive than any pollution producing chemical plant or reef destroying real estate developer.
I watched one destroy a group of four cleaner gobies on a coral head in just a few minutes. As the gobies approached the Lionfish gulped them down. Countless generations of evolutionary adaptation make these cleaners unafraid to approach another fish. They will even try to clean your hand. Indigenous fishes leave them alone because of genetic programming that makes them off limits, gives them an immunity to predation. Lionfish, being aliens, do not have this programming. As the cleaner fish and shrimp disappear disease problems on the reef will spiral out of control.
I saw Lionfish eat small French Angels (also cleaners at that size) and a juvenile Spotted Drum. All easy picking for these monsters, whose numbers are increasing at a horrifying rate.
There are some foolish people who oppose the rutheless extermination of alien Lionfish. Their understanding of the natural world and ecological reality is on the same level as a Disney cartoon. It was fools and criminals of this kind who probably dumped their Lionfishes into Florida waters when they were no longer willing or able to care for them. Those morons thought they were being humane. They actually were being more destructive than any pollution producing chemical plant or reef destroying real estate developer.
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