3 posts tagged “seahorse.org”

Last weekend, I went to Baltimore to meet up with some      Seahorse.org   friends at the National Aquarium! It's amazing, how the members of the    Org  will drive hours to meet people we only know from an internet forum.  But we do meet, and we end up having a good time, becoming friends.  Athe Aquarium , we  saw the Australia exhibit (birds, fish, reptiless and plants ... even some insects and amphibians!) and we saw a seahorse giving birth to hundreds of tiny fry!

Shopping at the Aquarium gift shop was way too tempting. I spent too much on a pair of seahorse earrings and various Chotchkies.

Even Jill got a present! Here she is in her new nightshirt. from the Aquarium giftshop.

I drove down there with a friend, Susie, who lives near me.  After meeting up with several other Orgers, Susie, her siter Carol and I went shopping at  Harbor Place .

 

Susie fragging ricordia for Matt

Susie and Richie finding wee mud crabs!

Better pics when I cab find my camera, until then phone pics are
all I have.

I'm home now, and acclimating my catch: several kenya tree coral frags,
dozens of nasarrius snails, some mud crabs, snicking shrimp for the
seahorses and five tiny gobies for the temperate tank! I have to set all
the wild-collected stuff up in quarantine systems, soak the macro algae
in fresh water, dip the snails in an iodine solution and and scrub their
shells, and feed the fish, crabs and shrimp anti-parasite food before I
can introduce them to my display tanks. Quarantining wild-caught
livestock for at least 4 weeks is important so you don't introduce
pathogens to your tanks.

My Seahorse.org friends are so important to me. They are compassionate,
fun, creative, helpful, silly and so very generous of their time and
knowledge (not to mention their supplies, couches, and their beer!)

Until next time, Orgers!

Drove down to Waretown, New Jersey, to hang out with some    Seahorse.org
buddies. We went shrimping (for glass shrimp to feed to our seahorses)
at Barnegat Bay on Saturday. Sunday, we went snailing for nasarrius
obsoletus in Oyster Creek.