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With the meeting of tropical and temperate waters here in SEQ we can boast a huge variety of starfish in these waters,i have seen at least 40 different types of standard sea stars and that doesn't include feather stars and brittle stars. It is sometimes amazing what is out here in one area!!

This was the third trip. Didn't even bother doing some spearing while free diving on this trip,the crays that were seen were left for Dave to get. As you can see by the first pic the queenlsand coast is quite ugly,not likely,but some really nice birds on the beaches to check out-lol!! One...

No it wasn't a white that chewed on one of us it was a looney wobby,you get a few of those,the man eaters are quite easy to scare away,normally!! There are increasing numbers of whites around here now,since hislop stopped hunting them and they were put on the protected list they are coming back...

They are feather star fish(sea stars) they are in the family of Comasteridae,we get virtualy every colour variation in these creatures,you need low nitrate and an auto feeder to keep them going as they have no fat storage area or mucles tissue on their body at all. Thats why they go to marks...

we do see quite a few sharks out there depending on where we go,sometimes we go up to 50ks out to sea to some spots. Just lately there have been a few extra whites out there as well as the standard sharks and one minor attack on one of us in the last 12 months. Some of us do some spearfishing...

Another great club day out appreciating the beautiful ocean areas we have here in the south east and catching a few aquarium species for our tanks. Now that some of the new memebers are geting more experience with collecting the club sponsored three day rental house on the water in November...

I saw a special on the tele a while back saying the thames is of good health these days,maybe a bit cold for these types of fish in there though,lol. This is our club thread on that subject and more in relation to collecting,rules,how to,and spots and our area is shown as well...

It was given to Mark,the ones from very bad areas with very little food do extremely well in an aquarium as they have never had the foods it is hard to mimic in an aqiuarium. Its a real pig with food,any food,if you saw where it was caught from you would not believe there were 6 latz an idle,an...

This is the second collecting trip for aandtsociety show stock. Just another trip to get some nice fish and inverts for the beenliegh show tanks on one of the calmest days imaginable and in the strongest current. The current this day was extrmemly dangerous and had to be handled with a lot of...

one or two were around 8 inches long. There was another trip to get some more since than. The other guys seem to like the largish ones at the moment. There are bigger ones to nearly 2 feet long,but none of us bother with breeding adults. One of the regular spots has between 150 and 200 in the...

Around seven of us went for a big day out snorkelling and collecting on sunday two days ago and had a very nice day out! lots of other collecting groups there that day,we joined in helping another with local tang collecting.

Trip one. The weather was spot on,the vis was great,the current was as dangerous as you could possibly get!! The ever (rare,lol ) wobby,#41#### things are like flies around here,flies that put holes in you. This one was near the blue tangs and ate one before getting down to them again. You...

A few of the south east Queensland Aquarium society members went down to the movie set for somewhere a bit different on a shrimp hunt at one of the very low tides on a friday in mid August,there wasn't much there as it is not the best spot but they had excelent conditions for the days low...

It is a very large thread so here it is on our site. http://southeastqueenslanda.aforumfree.com...er-t290.htm#886

This was a catch from a little while back from Kens boat and also Daves boat,this was mainly for some display fish for the clubs beenleigh show display and than all the latz went to the guys breeding programs,that leaves us with none,so we are getting some akyndinos clowns now instead,the latz...

this is the thread on our site if anyone is interested. http://southeastqueenslanda.aforumfree.com...os-t263.htm#817

We have had 4 trips since the last post from us here so i will just put on a nice pic from each trip. The first pic is of some marine species collected on a trip to mainly get 4 thousand litres of water for one of the clubbies with a very large marine set up. While we were there we had a three...

If you have the room this style keeps nitrates at zero always and the algae in the tank keeps the phosphates a no show.

I have no idea as to whether it will remember a human shape or not,i hope so. I know it was settled in when i left it,i love the way it had a go at the large pushy damsel that is there,so cute. The reef it is on now has quite a lot of latezonatus there as well,which is part of why the spot was...

If you never let any thing get to your deep sand bed they work great permenantly. It's the same with all filtering,prefilter it and it will function for ever and a day,near on no one does this properly. If you have a 5 mill size piece of coral in your water it becomes bio active at nitrites,if...

There are reasons this fish had to go back. Not to long ago we had two years,around seven years ago where there were hundreds of them in certain areas and we used to keep a few here and there to see how they live and the best conditions for them. Two i had from a thumb nail size to just turning...

A large conspict at an aandtsociety trip was on the Rufus king about a month back and was so easy to catch it was too hard to resist. Once these,one time Ausy indemic fish,are sent over seas,after the conspicts are caught from either new cal or australian waters,they can fetch a price of 1 to 4...

Hey xxbarneyxxx I couldn't agree more mate. I have seen it and herd all the same garbage that you have. There are so many trendy opinons,based on stupid mistakes,its rediculas. I have kept marines for around thirty years and experimented with near on everything and this nitrate factory bull is...

if any one here is in the Queensland south east on holiday in the future,contact use first and we will let you know of some nice spots to enjoy while here.

A day that should have been a complete dud,ended up being a good day,even with the bad weather,we were able to fit the visit to the pools in with out getting wet,well maybe from the knees down! We got there one after the other from 11.00 on, Danny the club pres was first dropped off by his...

This day mark from the club wanted to get four thousand litres of water for his massive systems as a water change. Some of the members tagged along to help a little and collect while there and this was the day. There were one or two sharks that were a bit of a hassle,but it was okay this time...

Thanks guys! I am actualy heading out later on with one of the guys to hopefully find either parts of or the main section of a plane,american bomer i think, that went down in 1947 that no one has dived on yet,than i was hoping to have a snorkel around the fon of the island and chase something...

This is our early morning monday june 8 collecting trip. We got to the water and it looked cold and dirty and it was dirty,so after a hot coffee or two and sit and look at the lovely ocean,we finaly got in. Danny was into it first,he was keen,than colin, Nick and myself sat and slowly got...

Thanks mate,just showing off what we do,where we are and getting the club name noticed after years of not taking on the internet. hopefully Danny,Shane, Nick or another will take over showing the trips after the end of the year,i may not be able to.

Check out this little cutie,it was collected in some of the most discusting conditions as an accident while getting feeder shrimp at day light this morning,lots of fun at the low tide mud flats,but it was discustingly cold and dark and muddy. It went into a tank,sat still for a while than had a...

The spot is very close to my heart! The rock pool has,in the spot on the east end where there is the most movement,what looks like hundreds of them,non bigger than a foot in size and i noticed one over 15 years back as a little pretty one and it is a foot now,it's colours are the same as...

This place we first found in the late eighties and once in there you realise the marine environment is almost totaly represented here. An area in the middle of this reef has the biggest oysters you will find any where and back in the day when you could take them,there were heaps of oyster...

This link should cover it,check out the regs we follow them and it says it at the top where we are,but we are an aquarium club in Brisbane in Aus that has been around since the 1920s and have been doing salt water and freshwater collecting trips here and there since then...

Another great trip and an equally beautiful day. There are more trips to come out soon and we are having a trip to in about 2 hours. This time a few clowns were the order of the day. Firstly the (perideraion) pink clowns, we call them skunk clowns, were not originally noticed as there colours...

Thats cool mate,either use the website contact us or put something on the forum. You are more than welcome! web site-http://www.aandtsociety.org.au/ Club forum-http://southeastqueenslanda.aforumfree.com/

A little Harliquin sweetlip (plectorhinchus chaetodonoides )that was caught on one of our recent aandtsociety collecting trips. Just wondering if any one here has kept one and what did you feed it? It seems to be doing fine on the standard foods we have fed other sweetlips, but there may be...

Don't forget,if any of your forum members are coming over on holiday,contact us and we will point you in the direction of some of our spots to enjoy the marine creatures here. This trip was something very special as a lot of the close in ocean was wiped out just after the trip by the very heavy...

This was the second main trip of the season and one of the last as this was in mid to late May. The water is dropping in temp now so we won’t be having many snorkelling adventures until the temps start coming back up,but there will always be a few of us that keep hitting the water no matter how...

The only draw back to the chaetodontoplus angels (personifer,meredithi,etc)is they are a bit suseptable to white spot as they have a small scale thing going on the same as the blue sugeons if your tank isn't up to scratch. Over all an easy fish to keep though and they eat anything,not...

It's a meredithi,in the old book form a renowned Ausy fish guy,the book describes the slight variations between the two and though slight,they are a little different,more so with the blue on the adult. About one and a half hours from brisbane,which is where we live,are areas where in some years...