Walking around the reef at low tide
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I love your posts! I hope you realize how jealous we all are of you!
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Thanks for all the views and comments guys 
If you want more make sure to check out the reef central thread "How rare is this" as his pics are awesome and most are from almost 10 years ago in the exact same area
If you want more make sure to check out the reef central thread "How rare is this" as his pics are awesome and most are from almost 10 years ago in the exact same area 
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Well luckily it seems like the photos that I linked here haven't been impacted by photobuckets nonsense however I will be using the new Reef2Reef media centre from now on (this forum really is awesome)!
I haven't been out to any more low tides recently, both because of work and a lack of really good ones. However on the last trip the fellow reefer I went with collected a few little shrimp that we believed to be peppermint shrimp (which are commonly found out there).
After getting them all back to his tank he noticed a couple of them had claws. After a few weeks the largest of the shrimp has now grown a fair bit, and also killed and eaten all of the actual peppermint shrimp as well as the smaller shrimp with claws and even one small fish (which was already sick). I was wondering if anyone here knew what it is and is it a danger to his other fish or red line cleaner? It looks almost like a coral banded shrimp without the bands?
I haven't been out to any more low tides recently, both because of work and a lack of really good ones. However on the last trip the fellow reefer I went with collected a few little shrimp that we believed to be peppermint shrimp (which are commonly found out there).
After getting them all back to his tank he noticed a couple of them had claws. After a few weeks the largest of the shrimp has now grown a fair bit, and also killed and eaten all of the actual peppermint shrimp as well as the smaller shrimp with claws and even one small fish (which was already sick). I was wondering if anyone here knew what it is and is it a danger to his other fish or red line cleaner? It looks almost like a coral banded shrimp without the bands?
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Wow June 2017, almost 3 years ago was the last time I went for a low tide walk 
I've been studying and working full time for the last 3 years and haven't been able to get out on any of the good tides (only 2.5 more semesters to go!) but last night there was a good low tide and I was convinced by 2 other local reefers to join them for a look around.
Given the current world events we are extremely lucky here. We have had no community transmission and our social distancing restrictions are much less extreme than other places so going for a walk outside with 1 or 2 other people is ok as long as you maintain a decent distance apart. So with that in mind we headed out at 2am to have a look around
We didn't really see much that isn't in any of the other photos already and I didn't take any where near as many photos as I intended to, but here is a couple of pics I did get that weren't blurry!
I've been studying and working full time for the last 3 years and haven't been able to get out on any of the good tides (only 2.5 more semesters to go!) but last night there was a good low tide and I was convinced by 2 other local reefers to join them for a look around.
Given the current world events we are extremely lucky here. We have had no community transmission and our social distancing restrictions are much less extreme than other places so going for a walk outside with 1 or 2 other people is ok as long as you maintain a decent distance apart. So with that in mind we headed out at 2am to have a look around
We didn't really see much that isn't in any of the other photos already and I didn't take any where near as many photos as I intended to, but here is a couple of pics I did get that weren't blurry!
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That octopus is beautiful! These photos are wonderful! I am so happy to see you back on here...I will keep hoping for more critter pics! Thank you for sharing with us!
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Very nice. I wish I can walk out to our beach and see these.
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Thank you for sharing
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Best thread I've ever read!
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Pretty sure I mentioned it somewhere else in the thread but I live in the Northern Territory, Australia.
And the scribbled angels are a beautiful fish. I only just got rid of mine as I have downsized from a 6' to a 4' and it was just too big!
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Holy moly I live in Atlanta Georgia ( a suburb) and man I would give anything to do this! What are there laws on taking the corals! I saw a YouTuber who went out and took fish and a ton of stuff and I was super surprised assumed it was illegal...
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Pretty much everywhere in Australia it's very illegal to take coral without a licence, everywhere except where I live (at least as far as I know it's the only place). Here it is almost the opposite of everywhere else in Australia, it is legal to collect coral for personal aquariums, the flip side is that it is very illegal to sell any aquatic life (even rock). Doesn't matter if you purchased it interstate for big $$$ or if you aqua cultured and fragged it yourself, if you don't have a licence to sell (which are very limited and expensive) then the fines for selling or trading are huge.
It probably sounds like a dream come true to most reefers, and it is nice to be able to collect pieces here and there when you go out for a look at low tide but honestly while its very cool to see and walk through the tide pools, 99% of the coral out there is really not anything impressive compared to the stuff you can buy, even cheap stuff.
While most locals I have met do the right thing and only collect sparingly, are mindful of sustainability and are quite careful to only take what they know they can care for, I have seen some people abuse the laws quite badly. Some seem to think they should take whatever they want and as much as they want just because they can with no care for sustainability or as to if they can adequately care for it.
Luckily we have a pretty small reefing community here and we try our best to educate any new comers to prevent pillaging such behaviour is strongly frowned upon.
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Do you ever see any Black Ocellaris anymore? There was a similar and spectacular thread on RC years ago. The OP eventually got out of reefing and stop posting. Then all the images were gone due to software upgrade money requirements so the thread fell apart
It was a very popular thread for a LONG time
It was a very popular thread for a LONG time
