Awesome shots C.
You still catch your own fish?
Yep. Got really lucky and hooked up with a guy named Brian Greene, formerly of Twilight Aquatics. He’s one of the premiere collectors in the world, been out with Richard Pyle to collect on scientific expeditions….not just aquarium stuff. Real marine biologist type. He showed me the ins and outs on collecting. Really don’t have a choice out here but to go and get your own stuff, live aquaria doesnt ship here :.
Don't have to drive a car, don't have a cell phone???? You get to catch all the fish and pick your own coral???? Sounds like someone went to Heaven?
That is awesome. Thank you so much for the post and pictures! Your tank is amazing!
Thanks. I always say pluses and minuses. The weekends make it worth it put here.
Love those midget chromis
me too! I think I have six of them now. They’re tricky to catch. You have to catch them hanging out in corals that don’t have somewhere to dart into. Its like a magic show when you break out the nets, chromis tend to disappear!
MAn love that Leopard you got. You catch that? When you coming back Chuckie?
yes. They’re pretty easy to catch. Some fish just dart into a hole, wait you out. Leopard wrasses want to keep moving, so you can keep after them and eventually net them.
I suggest asking your dive buddy collector before he goes to Hawaii, what is the process to collect for payment? Who does he supply to and who do they sell to in the United States.
Once we narrow it down to the collection station that ships to the US, we will be sure to get your catch in Houston.
I will look and see what collection stations are close to you and see what info I can get from them.
Look into flights that hop your island or start boozing it up with pilots. You will find many owner operator pilots will let you take a "hop" for some fuel money. Being a military base do you ever get a chance to take military hops, they are free for authorized personnel? Since you have a clearance, their may be opportunities for you to accompany transport items to their destination?
Cheers
Brian
Brian,
Found the weak link in getting fish off this atoll. The ONE guy who has the license on Ebeye (next island over) is totally not reliable.
All fish need to be cleared thru the RMI government. He’s somehow connected, family wise in the Marshall islands. And has the racket going.
Local politics are weird around here.
im a civilian contractor, dont get free hops. gotta pay for airfare. of course we have direct dod civilians out here...
Hey that is awesome that you picked all that yourself down there. How big it your tank and do you use the water fresh right out of the ocean? I wanna look up where marshal island is at.
no, I mix my own ASW. NSW is very inconsistent from day to day, and it rains a lot here. I wont collect seawater after it rains, too much freshwater runoff.
Its hard to time the weather, easier to mix it up.
Heres my tank rundown
58G Oceanic Illuminata rimless, Mazarra LED x 3, Tunze 6095 x 2, Eheim 1260, BM-180 skimmer, TLF reactors, Apex LT
quickie update, tons of anthias in the waters now. Beautiful schooling fish. I managed one bartlett anthias on my last outing. Broke one of my nets collecting deep, stuck collecting in 20-30 feet of water. its uper hard to collect with only one net. Im going to go back for a couple more bartletts, thin out some of my other fish in the tank.
Shooting for 4 rhomboidalis in the tank ….i have 2 now. Love em.
