Here is what we picked up on our collecting trip today. Some of the stuff is being held in my 75 brackish until we can set up a big enough tank at school for them.
I went collecting today!
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And that was all found in brackish water? Some of them look like salt species. The sea cucumber may need lots of light to survive.
Gr8KarmaSF;530724; said:
JCA;530727; said:
They aren't eels, they are pipefish.
Think of them as non squigly sea horses, and yes, they came from a secluded bay in southern Delmarva.
Honda12;530810; said:
They are striped killies (males I believe). When we first caught them, they looked like striped bass fry. These guys are 4 inches now and I bet will get bigger. They are pretty cool fish. They are already going after pellets!
IMFishHead;530942; said:
Thanks, we would have pulled in more but we had a few difficulties when we were there. My partner was going to bring a cast net so we could collect from the kayaks but he left it at home. Also, the class has been historically upperclassmen, but this year it was a lot of very immature sophmores that did more splashing than seining which made catching stuff very very hard. One of the kids tried to put a full size Blue Crab in the collection bin with the killies and I was very angry to say the least! They do not understand that blue crabs are predators and will eat our catch. We did also catch a huge spider crab, which was pretty cool. We also caught lots of horseshoe crabs and saw an entire beach of fiddlers run at once into their little holes! I also saw a snail kill a crab in our collecting jar!
Taz2478;531112; said:
Thanks Taz!