Our wonderful waters not far from Brisbane in Southeast Queensland has put on a good show as per usual for us on aandtsociety collecting trips for our reef aquariums.
We have had some great free dives, wonderful low tide walks and breath taking scuba trips for photo opportunities.
Quite often some of us do not catch any thing intensionaly, some times we are just happy to be amongst so much life and literally swim with what many have to pay hundreds of dollars for at the local aquarium shop.
Its only 12 years left now till the aandtsociety will have its 100th anniversary for indulging in these field trips.
It’s a shame so many hobbyists don’t get the opportunity to be a part of the marine environment the way we do to get a serious understanding of how the ocean functions to apply things learnt from close up observations and apply them to our reef tanks
This is where we keep the pics of common SEQ reef life that we regularly see.
Fish & invertebrates found near Brisbane in SEQ
At times we see some impressive cloud formations on the way out to reefs.
On one of our low tide collecting walks, this was the welcoming committee or maybe it was just a cuddle wanted.
A not so happy cuttlefish, he didn’t want any company other then the wife.
She was just behind him.
A couple of us on one of our favourite reefs getting ready to get in after being dropped off while the others went fishing.
My self-enjoying the conditions on an open water trip.
Some estuarine thistle coral in abundance so far this year.
Always a pineapple fish to see at most sites we collect at.
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A cute little trumpet from raised coralline.
A new season carpet anemone of thousands we see.
A nice cluster of a type of colony anemone, some were collected, sadly the peppermint shrimp killed the all.
A lysmata young couple have set up house.
A locally well-known leopard shark we see regularly at this site, after a short pat and a hand fed crab, that was enough and off it went.
A dinner sized flat head
An oyster species we see regularly.
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A type of tubeworm endemic to the mid auz east coast,only!
When your aquarium waters hit 25c,these endemics begin a slow death.
Always thousands of clams out off Brisbane, we see four different species out here all up and there is one giant clam at another site.
This male dragonet having an argument showing off his colours to deter the younger new comer.
This we see from time to time, two tone acans!
One of many common nudibranches, this one is endemic to the sunshine coast.
There have been many lemon peel angels this season.
Our local variety of chromis in massive amounts this year.
One of the many crays we see.
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A few of what has been collected these last two months.
A rare pic of a juvenile conger eel.
I have this one to observe it as the changes to adult occur and look nothing like this stage.
There have been a lot of coral beauties to see.
Always a multitude of anthias around.
So far this year we have found two hybrids, this one isn’t one of the hybrids!
A lot of new season latezonatus for us to see or collect.
This clown wasn’t wanted.
This latezonatus was wanted.
That’s it for this time; hope you enjoyed this minuscule amount of our plentiful trip pics.
We have had some great free dives, wonderful low tide walks and breath taking scuba trips for photo opportunities.
Quite often some of us do not catch any thing intensionaly, some times we are just happy to be amongst so much life and literally swim with what many have to pay hundreds of dollars for at the local aquarium shop.
Its only 12 years left now till the aandtsociety will have its 100th anniversary for indulging in these field trips.
It’s a shame so many hobbyists don’t get the opportunity to be a part of the marine environment the way we do to get a serious understanding of how the ocean functions to apply things learnt from close up observations and apply them to our reef tanks
This is where we keep the pics of common SEQ reef life that we regularly see.
Fish & invertebrates found near Brisbane in SEQ
At times we see some impressive cloud formations on the way out to reefs.
On one of our low tide collecting walks, this was the welcoming committee or maybe it was just a cuddle wanted.
A not so happy cuttlefish, he didn’t want any company other then the wife.
She was just behind him.
A couple of us on one of our favourite reefs getting ready to get in after being dropped off while the others went fishing.
My self-enjoying the conditions on an open water trip.
Some estuarine thistle coral in abundance so far this year.
Always a pineapple fish to see at most sites we collect at.
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A cute little trumpet from raised coralline.
A new season carpet anemone of thousands we see.
A nice cluster of a type of colony anemone, some were collected, sadly the peppermint shrimp killed the all.
A lysmata young couple have set up house.
A locally well-known leopard shark we see regularly at this site, after a short pat and a hand fed crab, that was enough and off it went.
A dinner sized flat head
An oyster species we see regularly.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
A type of tubeworm endemic to the mid auz east coast,only!
When your aquarium waters hit 25c,these endemics begin a slow death.
Always thousands of clams out off Brisbane, we see four different species out here all up and there is one giant clam at another site.
This male dragonet having an argument showing off his colours to deter the younger new comer.
This we see from time to time, two tone acans!
One of many common nudibranches, this one is endemic to the sunshine coast.
There have been many lemon peel angels this season.
Our local variety of chromis in massive amounts this year.
One of the many crays we see.
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A few of what has been collected these last two months.
A rare pic of a juvenile conger eel.
I have this one to observe it as the changes to adult occur and look nothing like this stage.
There have been a lot of coral beauties to see.
Always a multitude of anthias around.
So far this year we have found two hybrids, this one isn’t one of the hybrids!
A lot of new season latezonatus for us to see or collect.
This clown wasn’t wanted.
This latezonatus was wanted.
That’s it for this time; hope you enjoyed this minuscule amount of our plentiful trip pics.
