jawfishray
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...no pics, as they are under moonlight and resting right now, but tomorrow I will take some shots of them...them being a pair a seahorses!
Yahhhhhhhh for me!
4.5" measured with tail curled, big H.erectus. One dark phase and the other a muted yellow/gold/black banded. Very cool and man were they hungry.
I received them from the local high school marine science lab. They had them as rescued members from a dredge while on a field trip. The teacher was feeding brine every couple days, yikes!
So I took my lack of pods in stride and made a dive to get some.
While in route to my beach dive I came across a most unusual item, a plastic laundry basket. It had been at sea for some time, as it was fully encrusted with fine tube worms, goose neck barnacles, pink barnacles, 3-4 different matting algea, and best of all pods by the thousands.
It had been ashore for a short period of time, as it was still very wet but starting to dry at the top. So I broke out the buckets and started picking through the muck.
When it was all said and done I had hundreds of adult pods, thousands of juvie pods, dozens of juvie crabs (tear drops with eyes), hundreds of the long alien looking shrimp whose name escapes me (some thing like an inch worm body type with little waving arms), and dozens of other micro fauna that escaped my notice until presented to the system (baby bristle worms, red marine worms, etc).
It was a major pain in the ass to gather those guys but in the end I have more than enough to start my colonies, more than enough for the pipefish and seahorses (along with all the other happy tankmates) to eat right now, and there was no shipping costs lol.
I have the remaining 4lbs of sludgy muck algea scrapings setting outside overnight so that I can secure the next batch tomorrow.
So far the seahorses and my pipefish are getting along great, everyone is full and happy.
Just wanted to share
Ray Boemler
www.peanutbutterjellyfish.com
Yahhhhhhhh for me!
4.5" measured with tail curled, big H.erectus. One dark phase and the other a muted yellow/gold/black banded. Very cool and man were they hungry.
I received them from the local high school marine science lab. They had them as rescued members from a dredge while on a field trip. The teacher was feeding brine every couple days, yikes!
So I took my lack of pods in stride and made a dive to get some.
While in route to my beach dive I came across a most unusual item, a plastic laundry basket. It had been at sea for some time, as it was fully encrusted with fine tube worms, goose neck barnacles, pink barnacles, 3-4 different matting algea, and best of all pods by the thousands.
It had been ashore for a short period of time, as it was still very wet but starting to dry at the top. So I broke out the buckets and started picking through the muck.
When it was all said and done I had hundreds of adult pods, thousands of juvie pods, dozens of juvie crabs (tear drops with eyes), hundreds of the long alien looking shrimp whose name escapes me (some thing like an inch worm body type with little waving arms), and dozens of other micro fauna that escaped my notice until presented to the system (baby bristle worms, red marine worms, etc).
It was a major pain in the ass to gather those guys but in the end I have more than enough to start my colonies, more than enough for the pipefish and seahorses (along with all the other happy tankmates) to eat right now, and there was no shipping costs lol.
I have the remaining 4lbs of sludgy muck algea scrapings setting outside overnight so that I can secure the next batch tomorrow.
So far the seahorses and my pipefish are getting along great, everyone is full and happy.
Just wanted to share
Ray Boemler
www.peanutbutterjellyfish.com