I decided to take the kids down to Sandy Hook on Sunday and we had a blast collecting local critters from the salt marshes including glass shrimp, hermit crabs, and naked gobys. Since I had my quarantine tank running on empty for the past 2 months I decided to bring some home. I can’t stop looking at the tank! Has anybody else done something similar?
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- Thread starter Rockfish
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@Paulie 069 . Has invert tanks, seahorses all local!
Cool critters @Rockfish. The only thing I have brought home from Sandy Hook is sea water. I haven't done it since last November. I don't collect between Thanksgiving and Easter. It's too cold there. Carrying 5 gallon jugs across that long walk to the car in the cold isn't for me. I didn't resume collecting there this year due to the Covid pandemic
I can happily hook you up with some ocean water I got 15 miles offshore just hit me up
Anything for you Diana
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Very cool brother, I grew up around Sandy Hook, my wife and I had a 3 level townhouse on Shewsbury River by the big bridge. Was a sweet place,, out back door to dock with 27ft Silverton waiting for me, it was awesome, so mad I sold it I should have kept it, was paid off uggh if I could do it again I’d do it differently
Anyway I have an invert tank with all things I caught myself in the ocean and bay
3 sea cucumbers
2-3 small clams
1 bay scallop
1 small conch
Hand full nasirs snails
2 hermit crabs size of my fist
1 small mangrove snapper ( from Florida and no idea why it was in our bay)
4 seahorses ( have 34 all together)
Everything is a filter feeder or algae eater,, I’ve never had to clean up the tank just 5gal water change every 10 days with water I take out of my main tank. And it’s crystal clear,, the plant in pic I found in bay and sent it to Paul.B. and he still has it
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Use to go to SH a lot but then after Super storm Sandy - the back bay areas changed. I'm glad to see that you found an area that shows the fauna has returned. When I used to visit we'd see dozens of hermit crabs and those temperate "nassarius" snails. The really cool thing we once caught in the area was a pair of blue crabs in the middle of procreation...the tide was outgoing and they were being pulled out in about 3 inches of water. Easy scoop. After some poking and prodding by the kids, we released them to procreate. 
After superstorm sandy the dunes and other areas had been shifted/changed and the same fauna was no where to be found.
This time of year there is no fee to go in right?
After superstorm sandy the dunes and other areas had been shifted/changed and the same fauna was no where to be found.
This time of year there is no fee to go in right?
Yup but I got all my inverts in Barnegat BayUse to go to SH a lot but then after Super storm Sandy - the back bay areas changed. I'm glad to see that you found an area that shows the fauna has returned. When I used to visit we'd see dozens of hermit crabs and those temperate "nassarius" snails. The really cool thing we once caught in the area was a pair of blue crabs in the middle of procreation...the tide was outgoing and they were being pulled out in about 3 inches of water. Easy scoop. After some poking and prodding by the kids, we released them to procreate.
After superstorm sandy the dunes and other areas had been shifted/changed and the same fauna was no where to be found.
This time of year there is no fee to go in right?
@Paulie 069 - Very cool. Let's see some pics of the Mangrove Snapper. I hear in late summer that tropical species including butterflies are sometimes caught after big tropical storms. Now that would be interesting!
@Hawkeye - There is no fee this time of year.
@Hawkeye - There is no fee this time of year.
I had 2 yellow butterfly fish also caught in Barnegat Bay along with the mangrove but let em go they were showing signs of ick and I wasn’t taking chances,, this is one of my sea cucumbers
