Collection of Long Island: Article

[Mario]

I dont know if anyone saw this on the www.nytimes.com website, but they showed a video (one of those embedded videos) of collection of tropical fish by Atlantis World. Here is the URL and look at the bottom roght hand side for the video

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/11/douglas-manor-swimmers-ignore-health-warnings/

 

[prattreef]

Thanks for posting this.

 

[jhale]

cool piece they shot.

 

[Mr.First]

Anyone want to meet me this Sat. Hampton Bays and do some collecting.
I have the spot, parking sticker, and a house to hang at. I need the net and a body on the other side to hold it......

 

[eric]

Anyone want to meet me this Sat. Hampton Bays and do some collecting.
I have the spot, parking sticker, and a house to hang at. I need the net and a body on the other side to hold it......

pm sent

 

[Treef]

Awesome I had no idea there were tropical stuff in ny!

 

[Mario]

Anyone want to meet me this Sat. Hampton Bays and do some collecting.
I have the spot, parking sticker, and a house to hang at. I need the net and a body on the other side to hold it......

This would be great, but I cant keep anything else in my minute 26 gallon tank unfortunately... Three small fish is my maximum.
Reminds me of my boyhoood days in Kenya's Coral reefs year ago doing this. Who would have thought global warming would all use to catch tropicals here in NY!!!

 

[D1J8Z]

cool

 

[Domboski]

Awesome video.

 

[Chapz]

Just saw vid. Good info. Thanks.

 

[Lenny718]

Interesting video, Thanks for sharing.

 

[dickenscd]

Excluding the copperband and cleaner wrasse, all the others including the seahorse in the picture were caught in Sept.2007 LIRA collection trip at Hampton Bay.

Butterflies lasted no more than 2 months, but seahorse was kept with other peaceful fish for 10 months until a giant coral banded shrimp beated him.

James

 

[hwttdz]

Why do you suppose the species fared so poorly?

Also a direct link to the video is at
http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_story=88ef0d96b1f94264ff747574ea06904ae21ced69

 

[hwttdz]

James why do you suppose the species collected fared so poorly?

Permanent direct link at
http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_story=88ef0d96b1f94264ff747574ea06904ae21ced69