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Anyone selling wild caught Seahorses?
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They are beautiful are you selling a male?Whitebird1 said:
I CAUGHT HER HANGING ON MY CRAB TRAP ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE RIVER.hurtback said:i don't have any horses---
i was down there a few weeks ago---only got some killies, stickleback, a few tiny crags, and i just noticed , an anemone ;D
my question is, where in shark river did you catch ' her' and how?
I GO EVERY WEEK WITH A FISHING NET AND SEARCH IN THE SEAWEED.
I HAVE BEEN THERE ABOUT 6 TIMES SINCE AND NO LUCK.
Go down to North Channel at Shark River and place killie traps with no bait off the docks, you can check them as much as you want, best if set overnight. Seahorses, Butter flys, small groupers ect, will just go inside and hang out. Once you catch something neat place more traps in that same spot. Iv caught 3-10 per day doing that.
Second spot is at the boat ramp by the beach, go down at night with a good flashlight at low tide and check out the rubble for horses. Never found them in the seaweed, they prefer deeper water with rocks or mussel bottom.
And for them to survive, start a Natural tank. Use NO LIVE ROCK but seed the tank with a teaspoon of river mud and a few rocks with a bit of seaweed. a cheap hang on filter works good. Make your own water and lights Ect just like a reef setup. as for food, take some clumps of mussels from the docks and swoosh around in a bucket of water, all kinds of copapods will dislodge, throw them in the tank. Also take home some of the mussels and half shell them then freeze them. drop a half shell in the tank daily and even the horses will pick at that.
GregH
Second spot is at the boat ramp by the beach, go down at night with a good flashlight at low tide and check out the rubble for horses. Never found them in the seaweed, they prefer deeper water with rocks or mussel bottom.
And for them to survive, start a Natural tank. Use NO LIVE ROCK but seed the tank with a teaspoon of river mud and a few rocks with a bit of seaweed. a cheap hang on filter works good. Make your own water and lights Ect just like a reef setup. as for food, take some clumps of mussels from the docks and swoosh around in a bucket of water, all kinds of copapods will dislodge, throw them in the tank. Also take home some of the mussels and half shell them then freeze them. drop a half shell in the tank daily and even the horses will pick at that.
GregH
My son was at Asbury beach last week and found a small seahorse in the seaweed. It ate live brine and now it eats frozen plankton. Set it up in a small tank with LR and Cheato with a HOB filter. Doing great so far and would like to get 1 or 2 more. Is it the spot where everyone met and went scuba diving?
My Collecting Tank at the time. Follow the Scuba Thread all the infos in there.
Shark River=07719=Belmar=Rt 35 (River Road) and L Street
Hope that helps!
I was planning on going this week and purchasing some - Frabill Vinyl-Coated Round Minnow Trap or a Square Minnow Trap.
I want the holes large enough for a seahorse to enter and to be able to wrap
their tail around the wire I would add a perch and some sea grass to make
it look appealing.
I want the holes large enough for a seahorse to enter and to be able to wrap
their tail around the wire I would add a perch and some sea grass to make
it look appealing.
Male has a pouch, hard to miss. I set 12 traps in a horse area, saw a butterfly but I could not get him. See what happens by morning.
just wondering if its even legal to buy or sell inverts or fish that are native to nj.i know with freshwater fish or reptiles and amphibians its highly illegal and carries a HUGE fine no matter what kind of critter it is