ReeferTJ Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 I live on the Chesapeake Bay and i desided that i was going to make a 10 gallon biotype. I all ready have some empty barnicles about 1 inch wide ,and 3 open oyster shells. Also I've also have a naked goby about 1.4in. long. But, other than that its empty. All ideas welcome Thanks. Link to comment
johnmaloney Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 my idea would be to get a chiller and a smaller signature. Link to comment
ReeferTJ Posted December 23, 2009 Author Share Posted December 23, 2009 My signature is glitching up and i am working on getting rid of it. Link to comment
dshnarw Posted January 1, 2010 Share Posted January 1, 2010 send me a pm...i'm interested in collecting from the same area. Link to comment
XiaoNio Posted January 5, 2010 Share Posted January 5, 2010 How about the ubiquitous blue crab? Hardy and tons of personality. Also, available live at pretty much anywhere that sells seafood. Though it'll eat anything else you put in there, I don't think you can really fit much in a 10 gallon anyway. Link to comment
timdanger Posted January 5, 2010 Share Posted January 5, 2010 That's easy -- just dump a bunch of fertiziler/construction/paving/sediment run-off into it. then fill it with a bunch of hair algae. it'll look just like the chesapeake bay! Link to comment
bluefunelement Posted January 5, 2010 Share Posted January 5, 2010 blue crab and horseshoe crab would be good scavengers - both will outgrow a 10g and eat any smaller fish- good local red macro! http://www.dnrec.state.de.us/MacroAlgae/in...entifying.shtml New York collected Link to comment
dshnarw Posted January 5, 2010 Share Posted January 5, 2010 How about the ubiquitous blue crab? Hardy and tons of personality. Also, available live at pretty much anywhere that sells seafood. Though it'll eat anything else you put in there, I don't think you can really fit much in a 10 gallon anyway. There are TONS of small gobies and other fish that would be appropriate, anemones and hardy gorgonians. Much better choices, and lots of them, in the Bay. New York collected The only thing in that thread actually local to New York are the anemones. All the others are tropicals swept up by the Gulf Stream to die in winter. The tropicals in that thread aren't found in the Bay in the summer either, except at the mouth, as they're not tolerant of the relatively fresh water of the Bay. Link to comment
XiaoNio Posted January 5, 2010 Share Posted January 5, 2010 Guess no one else here read "Chadwick the Crab" when they were in elementary school featuring such lovable favorites as Toulouse the Goose and Orville the Oyster. Link to comment
hooligan_78 Posted January 5, 2010 Share Posted January 5, 2010 You could catch some fiddler crabs from the salt marshes. Link to comment
Marine1 Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 I live on the Chesapeake Bay and i desided that i was going to make a 10 gallon biotype.I all ready have some empty barnicles about 1 inch wide ,and 3 open oyster shells. Also I've also have a naked goby about 1.4in. long. But, other than that its empty. All ideas welcome Thanks. How about a heron and an osprey? JK Here are some ideas, but I don't know how you would go about setting the tank up: For fish you could have any of the following: striped blenny (Chasmodes bosquianus) feather blenny (Hypsoblennius hentz) naked goby (Gobiosoma bosci) seaboard goby (Gobiosoma ginsburgi) green goby (Microgobius thalassinus) Lined seahorse Northern puffer (probably gets too big) You could do: an oyster reef OR barnacles redbeard sponge (get 8" X 12") boring sponge ghost anemone sea squirt Clean-up crew: try to find a small blue crab horseshoe crab fiddler crab hermit crabs black-fing mud crab marsh periwinkle arks atlantic oyster drill zebra mussel clam Chesapeake Inverts: mantis shrimp grass shrimp OR a comb jelly tank would be cool OR an underwater bay grass tidal marsh: http://www.chesapeakebay.net/shallow.htm http://cte.jhu.edu/techacademy/web/2000/healy/wqtemp.html Link to comment
C-Rad Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 I recommend that you look up when some really low tides will happen, and then go to a few places at low tide, roll over some rocks, see what lives there, and take some pictures (always put the rocks back, oriented the same way). Then go do some homework and learn about anything that you saw that looks cool enough to keep in your tank. Get an idea of what the animal's requirements are, and what might be compatible with what. Then when your tank is set up and cycled, go back and catch some of the things you've decided to target. BTW - be sure that collecting is legal in the spots you try, and that you have a fishing license or whatever if you need one. Link to comment
Outofstock Posted February 9, 2010 Share Posted February 9, 2010 Wow I didnt no so much was in the bay as in Marine1's post. Ill have to look more next time im sailing in the bay. Always catch a skate haha. Or I saw a lot of small needle fish swimming in between the docks. Link to comment
rockhead01 Posted June 16, 2010 Share Posted June 16, 2010 How about the Manatee that was spotted up by Havre de Grace? =) Link to comment
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