I could put you in touch with one if you'd like, a good friend of mine owns ecoaquariums PNG, only mariculture/exporter harvesting from Papua new guinea
No need. I don't have any good fish catching stories to share with him. Been getting stumped lately. It seems I've already collected the dumber species"¦I'm still looking for rhomboids, mysteries and multicolor angels. Oh sigh"¦the search go's on.
Hi Chuck, like the pic of your snorkeling buddy! Like you said its a life lesson that will never be forgotten. Looking forward to your next video.---Rick
Yes, he is getting "˜kwajified', running around bare foot, chasing lizards and playing with crabs. The other day for dinner, we offered him pizza, he insisted on grilled Ohno tuna (freshly caught that day) instead. What 5 year old wants fish over pizza
Greetings from east coast USA, LoL!
Today it was sunny and about 65, with lots of pollen. No ocean in site, but we still have pruned hands from playing in the salt water most of the day
I had to call the wife over to help me find the other two Rhomboids in your picture, but we eventually got all four. We've never have done scuba yet, but we are getting to where we go snorkeling more when we get to the Caribbean on our trips. We are certainly living vicariously through your posts as most here have said. So enjoyable to share your south pacific life with you - all the best and please be safe on those really deep dives...I don't know crap about scuba but know enough that those depths are dangerous. Thanks for sharing!
Ish"¦.I haven't seen 65 degrees in awhile, nor long pants, nor sweaters.
Peter Pan islander syndrome. You should consider diving. It offers another dimension to being in the water. Yes, it can be dangerous, but we all preach safety safety safety. We are very lucky, we have not had an incident here for some time. Foolishness is not a trait you need when diving. We have a hyperbaric chamber here on island, but its only been used for a couple of people here on TDY (temp duty), and fish collectors out of Majuro, flown in (locals) who weren't so safe. You only have 10 minutes or so at these depths, then you start hitting deco. Not good.
I'll say it again"¦.when you go to the LFS and you see that price tag on a fish. Don't just think about the logistics of where the fish come from; think about how difficult it is to collect certain species.
Great topic. One of the best in RC.. Please keep up the good work!
Greetings from Istanbul..
And a Yokwe and Aloha to you"¦.
Nice to see an international audience.
One of my best friends growing up was Turkish"¦.mmm I could eat a few dozen dolma's. I'm making myself hungry.
Welcome.
Very cool topic! Good to see the natural environment. It would be cool if you could do a comparison picture of a piece of SPS in natural light, and then in your aquarium to show the color difference.
Hmm, hard to do. I can tell you, corals AND fish color shift once in your aquarium"¦.significantly. ive pared my tank down quite a bit, making room for something different. I think damsels are universally regretted if ever introduced to an aquarium.
Absolutely one of the very best threads on RC. I admire your desire to leave the city life behind and relocate to the Marshall Islands. And your dive pictures/excursions are priceless. Thanks so much for sharing your little corner of paradise with the rest of us. :thumbsup::thumbsup:
Well I'm glad you think it's one of the best"¦..just ad libbing and faking the funk as I go along. At some point, I hope my diatribes are a little interesting to some.
As mentioned earlier, I gave the tank a makeover. I still need to do some more tinkering. For equipments, I got another TLF reactor in, gonna run carbon and GFO separately"¦.need to put my LED fuge light on the controller (flip flop normal light schedule).
Livestock wise, emptied the tank to get some fish out whereas I was getting a bit crowded. They've been issued a reprieve, back to the ocean you go. Not sure if keeping a fish captive is cruel or not. Mostly speaking, no one is trying to eat you and you get 2 good meals a day.
I also purged the tank of some corals and returned them to my favorite walk in coral head.
I went and got some new live rock, and managed to rearrange the aqua-scaping (this is soooo not a real word, but you know what I mean).
Bye bye pesky trio of damsels. Bye bye oversize, easily caught tangs"¦..bye bye a couple of wrasses. It seems more peaceful in my tank now.
I thought I would highlight collecting of live rock for this update. For practical purposes, I don't think it would be prudent to collect at 60' or so. It would be very impractical to carry around pieces while on your dive. You cant just pop up to the surface, put it in the boat and go back down. This rock has been collected in the pools shown at low tide, and is probably under 20' of water at normal tide. When the tide is low and the pools are accessible, the rock is somewhere around 6' depths. Makes it easy to go and sort thru and pick out shapes.
You only get a decent tide once every couple of months, and it really helps if they fall on a weekend.
Here's some pics .There's one particular pool that has a great deal of live rock. I tried to put my flipper in one of the pictures to give scale. What's funny is that you would think the coralline would be on the top of the rock"¦.no it's actually on the bottom of the rock. I got a few nice shapes, and even managed to snag a juvenile scopas tang while on snorkel.
Ive snuck in a few dives in between, but nothing to rave about, especially since I have blanked going after what I really really wanted to catch..oh well, always next time.
I'm going to take a break next weekend, awesome UFC coming on. They usually start around noon time here, time zone differences.
Enjoy the pics.
C
