Have you ever taken things from the Ocean to put in your tank?

[ZoWhat]

Have you ever taken things from the Ocean to put in your tank? What did you take?

Laws are different in each situation.

I believe you can buy a Fishing License in Florida and permitted to take certain things at certain qtys.

 

[Cory]

I once had my mom bring a small cup of seawater from cuba so i could verify my refractometer was accurate. Was exactly 1.026!

 

[ZoWhat]

I once had my mom bring a small cup of seawater from cuba so i could verify my refractometer was accurate. Was exactly 1.026!

That's one heck of a calibration fluid

 

[RyanHoan]

I used to live in Hawaii and would get everything from the ocean (live rock, sand, water, fish, corals, algae, etc.) it was very not legal. oops.

 

[sagee]

When I lived in Florida I would get snails hermits and all kinds of fish from the ocean yes French angel, Atlantic blue, tangs midas blennys, lawnmore blennys all kinds of damsels all free diving.I

 

[Reefer Reboot]

Decades ago I ran a temperate cool water So. Cal. biotope aquarium where everything was hand caught. The part friends and family enjoyed the most was the added on tank that I would stock with lobsters (during season) for weekend BBQs. ;Drool

 

[NashobaTek]

I personally haven't, but I do have dead coral skeletons that I purchased from a diver in Florida for the aquarium.

 

[ZoWhat]

I personally haven't, but I do have dead coral skeletons that I purchased from a diver in Florida for the aquarium.

You have a skeleton of a dead driver from Florida?

Cool.....







Lol.

 

[NashobaTek]

You have a skeleton of a dead driver from Florida?

Cool.....







Lol.

Yep keep him hidden in the aquarium

 

[Miami Reef]

You have a skeleton of a dead driver from Florida?

Cool.....







Lol.

Zoa.....WHAT??????

 

[Gtinnel]

When I setup my first tank many, many years ago I brought home a cooler of sand from the beach while on vacation I struggled to carry it back to the car, I apparently never considered how heavy a cooler of wet sand would be, my wife was not happy. Once I got back to my apartment I decided to boil the sand in a pot on the stove, you know to kill hitchhikers. It splashed sand water everywhere, my landlord was not happy.
Oh to be young, broke , and stupid again.

 

[kcschwabe]

I currently have lots of Texas gulf critters including two blue crabs that’s were smaller than a dime when I caught them she gets out of the tank a lot .... here’s one of her the other day and one when she was super tiny

 

[Suohhen]

Only shells. I know boring. No hermit has seen them to be fit for their new home. I know even more boring. ;Pigeon

 

[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

Cant seem to find my mermaid...
D

 

[Mickeyt1reef]

Yes. I use to dive A LOT always added things from the gulf. Never worried about pest. In fact the only pest I ever had an issue with were a few crabs easily caught and a few small mantis shrimp, easily killed.

 

[snorklr]

brought a couple nerite snails back from the bahamas in the waterproof case for my mask...survived the trip just fine but crawled out of the tank and vanished

 

[gonzo620]

Back in 2014 we drove down to Florida. The kids wanted to keep the the hermit to put in the tank. So they made the road trip back to Indiana.

 

[Paul B]

When I started my tank everything came from the sea. The rocks, coral (which was dead at that time)

Barnacles, fish, crabs, shrimp, horseshoe crabs, urchins and anything I could find that was alive and small enough I put in my tank.
The water I still collect in the sea and of course amphipods.



I once had an urchin collection business where I would SCUBA for urchins. I went to the environmental protection agency for an urchin collection permit and they said to me,
"Whats an urchin"? so I figured I didn't need a permit.

<----------------<<<< My avitar is a local New York hermit crab that was about half an inch long. Very common at one time here but not any more. I took that picture at night on a lobster dive.

This guy.


These guys and dozens of pipefish and seahorses.

 

[snorklr]

when i was on LI i kept a 30 long with an undergravel filter in the 80's...all local stuff...hermits,kept 2 seahorses on different occasions....kept a killie trap in the canal behind my shop and put in whatever i found...if i couldnt get it to eat i'd just throw it back after a week...grass shrimp were great scavengers...very active and didnt hide... i wish i had some now

 

[ZoWhat]

Yep keep him hidden in the aquarium

Just the skull? Right?

Maybe add air bubbles to come out of his nose