Those are isopods tooThey look like pill bugs/ wood lice/ rollie pollies
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Those are isopods tooThey look like pill bugs/ wood lice/ rollie pollies
Some isopods arent reef safe.Who can feed those to? Lol! Some of them are about about an inch big… (low key looking for an excuse to get a mandarin)
They’re on the rip rap rocks too. I don’t know if they go underwater?They look like pill bugs/ wood lice/ rollie pollies
I see. This is going to be a great experiment. I’ll keep checking salinity this weekend, and find the ideal drop off point. I took it next to my rip rap and it’s 1.005. Neighbor saw me, and he said try the beach it’s probably higher.Some isopods arent reef safe.
I collected a bunch of macro algae and a small rock with rooted macro on it from the local beach here but when i was rinsing it i found a few amphipods and a big isopod. Ended up taking it back to the beach lol.
Rollie pollies are crustaceansThey’re on the rip rap rocks too. I don’t know if they go underwater?
I'd check at high and low tide and take an averageSalinity is 1.005.
Will check again in another area throughout this weekend
That’s smart. I took that initial salinity during high tide ^_^I'd check at high and low tide and take an average
Good point. Temperature of my part of the water is actually 78 degrees. I believe it stays this way plus or minus 3 degrees up until early SeptemberOne thing that hasn't been discussed is temperature. If you soak the rock and get bacteria and critters on it, those are temperate organisms. Just as you have many species adjusted to life in the bay, you have totally different species in tropical water. For example, you will not find a queen angel near Baltimore or a white perch near Key West. let's say the bay water today is 65 degrees. You put it in a tank and crank up the temp to 78, you most likely will have a massive die off of those critters that cannot handle the higher temp.
You may even see tropical species up that far in the summer. People catch butterfly fish, queen angels, etc all the way up to Rhode Island, they travel up in Gulf Stream, probably as larvae and settle out in the shallows. I once found a butterfly in Rhode Island that was in 55 degrees in October, tempered to mid 70's in about three hours. It did survive a few weeks in my aggressive FO. I did a similar seed of Narragansett bay stones in my FO years ago, I got lots of amphipods and such from the collection.Good point. Temperature of my part of the water is actually 78 degrees. I believe it stays this way plus or minus 3 degrees up until early September
no but next time i go diving will doNice you should definitely try it, as long as you have a quarantine/observation set up! Have you tried checking the salinity?
i am only assuming this but i would expect that being its basically "reef" you'd need proper cites permits to harvest ocean rock legallyIs it legal to take live rock from the ocean? In Florida to aquaculture rock I think you have to have a permit. If a game warden sees you, you might have a problem explaining what you're doing.