To many amphipods

[Paul B]

Today it was a beautiful day so my wife, I and another friend went out on my boat. We anchored where I usually do right off a tide pool in the Long Island Sound. I took my dinghy to the tide pool to do a little collecting and it is now officially amphipod season. I go here almost every week to collect and this week and maybe 2 more weeks the amphipods must be either spawning or playing soccer or just partying because it is the start of summer. They are all over the place and all I had to do was put my arm in the water and it was covered in amphipods. I collected a few thousand in a couple of minutes. Then, like always I dumped them in my reef but I think it was to much although the fish felt like they died and went to heaven. I probably collected a quarter of a pint, without water. That's a lot of amphipods and they filled my reef. I already still had plenty of them from last year so they can make new friends.
Here are some on a leaf.


Here is a video of some I took last year, they look the same this year so make believe I just took this today. I collected many more times this today.

 

[Reef Reaper]

Nice! Where did you go exactly?

 

[Paul B]

That is a tide pool in Port Washington called Leeds Pond. I take my boat there but someone could drop you off there on the road as there is no parking for about a mile.
Thats Plandome Road in the back

 

[Reef Reaper]

Ok. Thanks!

 

[Ariel110G]

can get some

 

[Paul B]

Can get some what?

 

[Clownlily]

Ooh nice thanks for the Info

 

[Paul B]

Today was a beautiful day so my wife and I went out with my friend and his wife to anchor where we always go a few yards off a tide pool in the Long Island Sound. I went to this spot yesterday and collected more amphipods that I could fit in my tank so I wasn't really collecting today. Just checking out the killer amphipods and other sea life. Our wives stayed in the boat and spoke about women things, I have no idea what that is, and don't want to. My closest friend and dive partner narrated this Spielberg film. These are videos and it was an underwater camera so you have to put your volume up.

 

[Paul B]

OK, I did it again. I wasn't going to collect so much but I can't help myself so I collected another couple of thousand amphipods, snails and mud and threw it into my tank. It looked like a swarm of weirdo's going into a Lady GaGa concert. They are all over the place. I also may remove some snails as there really are to many. I want every rock in my tank to be loaded with amphipods and I think I accomplished that. I am going back tomorrow with my Grand Daughter, Greta because I want to teach her about fiddler crabs, horseshoe crabs, shrimps, worms etc. She doesn't yet get the concept that there are so many different types of creatures in the sea, but she names them all Greta.

 

[ReefLord]

Can you just collect stuff and throw in your tank? Aren't they cold water and will dies in a reef tank?

 

[jr973]

Can you just collect stuff and throw in your tank? Aren't they cold water and will dies in a reef tank?

Not only that but what about any bacterial or diseases that could be transferred into your tank by adding something from the wild directly into ones tank ?

 

[Paul B]

Some stuff will die but the amphipods and snails will live just fine as I have been doing this since the 60s

Not only that but what about any bacterial or diseases that could be transferred into your tank by adding something from the wild directly into ones tank ?

The tank is running for 43 years and I started the tank with local water, bacteria and amphipods from here. Some of the breeding fish are 23 years old. No problems yet.

 

[jr973]

Some stuff will die but the amphipods and snails will live just fine as I have been doing this since the 60s



The tank is running for 43 years and I started the tank with local water, bacteria and amphipods from here. Some of the breeding fish are 23 years old. No problems yet.

True OG to this Reefing hobby