Awesome! That would sure help us out. I'll pm you the details once I speak with my advisor about details. Would you be open to learning our tissue processing protocol? I have a lot of fun with and in short it involves taking a photo of the fish in a squeeze box (that's how I get the photos I sent you) followed by tying a tag # through the mouth and finally removing a piece of tissue with a scalpel. The fish can then be frozen and sent to us where I'll place it in preservative. I have a video of the process that I can send to you if you're feeling up to it? This way we can get the tissues as fresh as possible as DNA starts to degrade after death. It's a pretty cool process and you may be interested to work with the photo box and use one yourself for fishes you collect down the road. You can get some really nice pictures with it and it's how museums photograph there fish.
And certainly no rush and at your convenience, it's cold down here as well and makes it difficult to collect until spring/summer.
Nice! I almost forgot the skilletfish. I may add one of those to my tank. I was think about having some midwater fish like killifish or sheepshead minnows but I'm not a huge fan of those fish and being a 10 gallon I'd rather my bioload be mostly blennies and gobies. Perfect for a tank your size though, you could have a nice little school of midwater fish.
Bump for the gulf blenny tank! I've wanted an invemar for some time now, they're gorgeous. Maybe a few of those in some barnacles and some seaweeds would be great or the nano with a couple invemar.
And certainly no rush and at your convenience, it's cold down here as well and makes it difficult to collect until spring/summer.
As far as my stocking goes, it's just Chesapeake Bay critters for me for this tank. C. bosquianus, H. hentz if I'm lucky, naked gobies, skilletfish, maybe a hogchoker and a few killifish or sheephead minnows. Once the tank is well established, I may keep seahorses in the fuge if I'm lucky to catch them.
However, I might be able to talk my wife into a Gulf blenny tank Also, I'd love to keep some H. invemar in a nano since they don't get very big.
Nice! I almost forgot the skilletfish. I may add one of those to my tank. I was think about having some midwater fish like killifish or sheepshead minnows but I'm not a huge fan of those fish and being a 10 gallon I'd rather my bioload be mostly blennies and gobies. Perfect for a tank your size though, you could have a nice little school of midwater fish.
Bump for the gulf blenny tank! I've wanted an invemar for some time now, they're gorgeous. Maybe a few of those in some barnacles and some seaweeds would be great or the nano with a couple invemar.