Collecting fish off florida
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new2salt1
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I thought you were from Omaha?? Do you live in FL now? It's funny...years ago I interviewed Conor at a show in Philly and now I can't get him to do more than a phone interview! That's cool though...he deserves to be that big. He's the most important writer of the last 30 years IMO.
justinwwwallin
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Dude.. Oberst over the phone? Lucky! Ha
my parents are moving to Florida and I'm 17 so I really have no option.
But I'm like 100% sure when I'm 18 I'll get a place in Omaha.
I love the music scene here
my parents are moving to Florida and I'm 17 so I really have no option.
But I'm like 100% sure when I'm 18 I'll get a place in Omaha.
I love the music scene here
nuro
Member
i got my scorpion from tampa bay 
i live right on the water, theres alot of great wildlife in the bay and in the gulf but not much i'd want to add to my tank. sea horses are everywhere around me but id never take any and try to keep it. IMO youre better off looking in seagrass beds for inverts then goign for fish. i found an awesome little octopus at ft desoto a few months back, i nick named him wiggles, but i left him out there. if i dont know for sure its safe to collect i wont collect it, im not an expert enough to know what local species are safe and/or have a healthy population. i yelled at a lady at the beach last year for drying seahorses.. man i was hot about it.
i live right on the water, theres alot of great wildlife in the bay and in the gulf but not much i'd want to add to my tank. sea horses are everywhere around me but id never take any and try to keep it. IMO youre better off looking in seagrass beds for inverts then goign for fish. i found an awesome little octopus at ft desoto a few months back, i nick named him wiggles, but i left him out there. if i dont know for sure its safe to collect i wont collect it, im not an expert enough to know what local species are safe and/or have a healthy population. i yelled at a lady at the beach last year for drying seahorses.. man i was hot about it.
novahobbies
Well-Known Member
Originally Posted by ADEE
http:///forum/post/3175018
there are a bunch... we have a new one very close to us in plantation called "the reef zone" and we also shop at big al's. Big Als is more for looking around and the Reef Zone has better prices on everything. I picked up some new corals today for killer prices (A colt and leather toadstool for $5 each) not sure were able to talk about different stores here, may be against TOU, PM me if this gets deleted.. Big als almost always has ick on their stuff and are way over priced IMO.. The Reef Zone in Plantation is strictly family owned and operated, they seem to really care about their stock and customers too.. my parents have a family owned and operated company that my husband and I work for so I tend to help them out more then other places. Weve been to exotic aquatic but it seems very dirty to me... I have pretty high standards though so perhaps thats being unfair
Man, sounds like I have a couple new places to check out! I totally agree with you about Big Al's. Like I said, I like going there mainly to window shop. Exotic always LOOKS like a hole-in-the-wall but the owner is great and I've always had healthy fish from them. The only exception was a single small clown for my nano...he never ate and died in QT. Exotic took him back and exchanged. That's pretty rare these days.
http:///forum/post/3175018
there are a bunch... we have a new one very close to us in plantation called "the reef zone" and we also shop at big al's. Big Als is more for looking around and the Reef Zone has better prices on everything. I picked up some new corals today for killer prices (A colt and leather toadstool for $5 each) not sure were able to talk about different stores here, may be against TOU, PM me if this gets deleted.. Big als almost always has ick on their stuff and are way over priced IMO.. The Reef Zone in Plantation is strictly family owned and operated, they seem to really care about their stock and customers too.. my parents have a family owned and operated company that my husband and I work for so I tend to help them out more then other places. Weve been to exotic aquatic but it seems very dirty to me... I have pretty high standards though so perhaps thats being unfair
Man, sounds like I have a couple new places to check out! I totally agree with you about Big Al's. Like I said, I like going there mainly to window shop. Exotic always LOOKS like a hole-in-the-wall but the owner is great and I've always had healthy fish from them. The only exception was a single small clown for my nano...he never ate and died in QT. Exotic took him back and exchanged. That's pretty rare these days.
