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More or less,it's a meredithi,east coast version of a personifer. we get a few around here. There was a pic of it in one of our trips with it in my hand. Cocky little fish,loves its cunji and the young tips on the caulerpas,turtle weed and coralines. The one i had before,i gave to one of the...

I have one main tank,but mainly five plastic marine environments,one is a dedicate algae scrubber. The plastics are always very messy the display looks better.

There are two more trips coming out of the members section very soon for all unregistered to see. This trip was mainly just a day out for a snorkel and video a particular favourite fish of some one,it was a small lip stick tang and this was seen the day before, we see large ones but this one...

We go from the sunshine coast down, the islands, to near the border for our trips. The club has been doing these trips since it formed in 1926 as a marines and freshwater aquarium society. The club used to have near on thirty boat owners in it, so the trips were huge. The last trip was...

These are a few pics of the wrasse trip recently. There are a couple of the leopard wrasse (Macropharyngodon meleagris), both the juvenile and the adult that went into one of the clubbies tank. Than there is a very nice comb wrasse (coris picta), it and a couple of others went into another...

This would have been the quitest trigger i have seen,very good nature! We always divide all that we get among the members, who is there gets first choice. One of the new guys,on our amazing trip that was had on Sunday(it is in our members forum for a while, its not quite finished, but it is...

These are the fish that were caught out at the wreck on a very nice day. The vis was only around 7 metres and the swell was nearly a metre, but it didn’t prevent a top day out. This wreck is nearly half way from Stradbroke Island to Moreton Island just out behind the surf on the bar. The...

Its an indemic form of bristle tooth tang. Very hard to catch,mark wanted some as they are one of the few that eat all agaes including the red algae/bacteria combo slimy variety. Lovely harmless fish,but you may have a heart attack trying to catch one of these,i nearly did. The island trip we...

it was on the gold coast. Finaly we had lovely clear water to enjoy. We just finished two more trips,one was a wreck trip and one more in two days to the island. The link that follows has our past trips and in the members section there are the very recent trips for the clubbies to look...

Another wonderful day out in the ocean chasing some inhabitants for our tanks. The water was from 20 to 25 metres vis and 25 degrees temp,basicly perfect. The first pic is how nice the day was and the second is of how busy it was there,lots of divers enjoying the clear water. One of the new...

Check out this picture of an angler fish we got today on the club collecting trip, only a mother could love that face, Yuk!!! I know lots of hobbyists that love these things, but I can’t stand them, I was almost sick hanging on to it for the photo.eeerrr. We see heaps of these in certain...

Thats what holidays are for. If any of you are ever over here for a holiday,contact us and we will point you in the direction of some top spots for a look around.

Hi all, some lazy people from the club went out during the week a while back and got some cool fish for the aquariums. I especially like the hog fish (bodianus mesothorax) nice fish, even as an adult, can be a bit nasty to the little aquarium pets. Of course an old faithful for a tank, another...

That one is nearly half grown. There was a huge school of them,much larger ones,but i believe that once they are of a breeding size,if there is not a good reason to take them,than we don't. they have never been in breeding numbers at this reef as the commercila guys used to get them all,for...

If any one is interested this link will take you to our water sports forum and click on the late april blue tang collecting trip and some photos and video. http://southeastqueenslanda.aforumfree.com...al-sea-life-f5/

This a link is our water sports section, just click on the 24th of April shrimp collecting trip & 25th low tide walk for the photos to look at if you want. http://seqaquariumkeepers.aforumfree.com/s...al-sea-life-f5/

I am putting this link,in because the clubbies have had to look at it for a few days now. Now it’s for all to look at, if you want to. Click on the Easter Monday collecting trip thread once in there for the pics, our fun and adventures are for all to view...

Thanks guys and gals. I like showing what we do as it gets what we do and our great ausy marine hobby and sport combo noticed by heaps of people. Sharing on some forums is good in other ways as well,we all learn things as there are some guys getting on the forums and telling there collecting...

We see them from time to time,they are cowards. I will get some film of one next time. We were watching one near the shoreline not far from home the other day(we live 5 mins from the ocean) when we had the dogs down the beach and i landed a nice big stick right on its head,it took off very...

Another great trip. The weather wasn’t the best, there were a few showers, but there was some shelter and when it stoped, it was great. Feeder shrimp, peppermint shrimp, seahorses, little ocys, crayfish and a small Chelmon, I won’t put the Chelmon pic on as we see heaps of them and I forget...

Hi 'bigc'. It is wave break island. The larger island south straddie has (sought of) far more life than wave break, but the vis is always one quarter of wave break,because of the tidal flow there. Next time you are going to be out this way contact us and we will give you a number of another...

sorry i thought it didnt go in!

These March collecting trips have been very popular with our new members in particular. Some had next to no fish in there tanks and some have started more tanks and others have lost most of the tank life because of power failures. So we have all been very busy going on our collecting trips, not...

Here at the bottom are two links to the regs in Queensland in regards to private collecting,someone asked about ,do we need a liscence as such? We put these on the forum so anyone can have a look at the current laws and than have some fun legally colecting like we do. Seeing how they act in...

This trip that I am showing is one of the main club trips and it was in November last year. On this trip the club paid for a rental on the island and some basic supplies and everyone came backwards and forwards as they wanted over the three days that we had the house. We got the house and...

I think i have said it before,but if anyone comes here for a holiday use the contact us on our site and we will tell you where to have some good times in the ocean around here.

I absolutely love this spot. We used to come here nearly every weekend 10 to 20 years back and it hasn’t changed much. We get out there about 2 times a year these days. For safe snorkelling, collecting, down to fifty foot scuba diving, spear fishing, non serious fishing, nothing beats this...

I tought the same thing about the prop,messy. It is supposedly a bi annual thing that they do and this is just a cluster out of several and no ones sure exactly where they go but they don’t remain in that tight of group once they pass that point.

Check out this. A friend sent these to me. This is off the coast of Mexico, near the northern tip of Yucatan Peninsula. There were supposedly thousands of them.

Another aandtsociety collecting trip. This time down to the south port seaway on the gold coast and it was a very good day. This time we all got there a bit earlier and to have a BBQ off the back of Karls truck before we got in to start collecting something for our tanks. The weather was spot...

Hi all, this is a rock pool trip we went on to the sunshine coast, just an hour and thirty from home in Brisbane. This spot we go to, two or three times a year and is so nice it is hard to describe. You have a very secluded and safe beach in a bay area with at times is very clear water and a...

Hi all. A couple of us from the aandtsociety had a day off today and decided to have a snorkel. Little did I know that I was going to be apart of a horror movie. I was just going backwards and forwards from the bottom in around twenty eight feet of water in an area where I would normally find a...

No,you can collect here,just stck to the local laws and they are very fair. NSW has easier going laws,you can collect far easier and with scuba as well down there. It would be good to ban all marines collected,both private and comercialy and only have captive bred that are avaliable. The few...

Hi all you marine keepers, just a little more showing off our club trips. Firstly some photos of some of the species we caught in these February trips, four trips all up. One was a boat trip and three were to different spots down the gold coast. There are one or two videos the spearo’s among us...

The lion fitting something in it's mouth,very true,my brother had a large volitan we caught and it swam around with a fish in it's mouth for two days that was to big for it and just spat it out very dead after that time. There is a rule of thumb to numbers in a tank,but that is not always...

They do drop their top as a result of health,heat or safety issues from time to time. They are a great tank addition,especialy for the colour. If it was between large chunks of what ever it will multiply if fed a lot. see yah.

I used glass slithers originaly when doing that. I just siliconed them togther after drawing up the plans and worked out what size to cut and use. These days i make my tanks with the floor slopng to the front with little silicon nobs to stop slipping to push waste to to the front to be moved...

My favourite tank creature, good on you. They are easy to breed. Don’t cut the top area! That is too much tube exposed anyway. It will do what is needed if no predators are a problem. When we get tube worms we see them all shapes and sizes and that is not much of a bend. It may have done it...

There are some very simple ways of keeping a marine aquarium very good. You will be amazed as to how your tank does,even though your tests read quite good. There are a lot of hidden substances that do not test and some that you can test and for all logical reasons seem great yet it never quite...

Who cares,show us a picture,thats the main thing. There are so many variations of anemonies and than variations of those depending on light and health. A picture is worth a thousand words. Maybe we can than put an exact name to it!