About 20 years ago, I used visit Ocean City MD & Bethany Delaware often. I
primarily fished the Indian River inlet and the Delaware Seashore park
http://www.destateparks.com/dssp/dssp.asp
with some friends who I grew up with. (This is all within 20 or so miles of
Assateague Island.) One guy, Anthony, had moved to Bethany by the mid 80s so
I went there a lot of weekends year 'round. In the interest of saving money
on live bait, I bought a cast net and a small seine. We started using them
in various bayside spots, Haven Rd. being our favorite. The cast net was
fine for bait (mummichogs, small Spot & other stuff I don't recall), but
once we started seining, we caught Pipefish, juvy Eels, & more I don't
remember. This sparked my entire interest in native aquatics. This was right
off the access rd., I could drive my various piece of junk economy cars
right up to the places we collected at. (Permit? What's that? I don't need
no stinkin' Permit!)
Knowing basically nothing about how to keep them, I set up a 29 gallon tank
and kept 6-8 pipefish from June to August,-in-which point I returned the
survivors to the place we caught them. (I got sick and tired of feeding live
food several times a day, not to mention constanly having to catch & kill
all the baby crabs that appeared from nowhere.) I bought 1 book-in-the time,
Our Native Fishes, by John Quinn. I credit that book with the survival of
the pipefish (I'm pretty sure only 2 of the pipefish died on me over that
summer, dumb beginner's luck). I still have my beat-up copy of the book.
I lived near Baltimore-in-the time, so when I set this tank up , I brought
ALL of the initial water back with me from right where we caufht the
pipefish.
That water ended up having a good deal of little critters in it, incuding
some Eels that looked virtually the same as in your pics.
Only 1 lived in that tank for any length of time. If memory serves, I took
that one back to the shore after 6-8 weeks. It was a pig, out-competing my
pipefish for the brine shrimp naupli that I had to hatch daily for the
pipefish.
I only got the pipefish to eat the bbs and some kind of nemotodes that were
available back in those days. They were sold under the brand name "Nemos" &
super easy to keep cultures going forever.
I know this is a long post, hope it wasn't completely useless,
Paul Reed
PS, I used to have some fairly cool pics from collecting there & that tank,
but I lost a lot of belongings in a fire in '88. :-(
----- Original Message -----
From: "pinocchio" <antilupa-in-yahoo.com>
To: <nanfa-l-in-nanfa.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2006 10:46 AM
Subject: NANFA-L-- larva ID- [was pipefishes in the Chesapeake Bay]
> Hello hello,
> No it is not about pipefishes. I tried 3-4 times to
> locate on my own some collecting spots, but no success
> as yet. I will try again in the fall, before I'll let
> you Gentlemen know of some reliable spots.
>
> Here is another question:
> Lately, I did some surf casting on
> and besides some fish that does not fit a normal sized
> aquarium, I also captured some larvae with a small
> hand net. Those little larvae were quite common this
> time of the year. Took some home and they live very
> well between macroalgae. Very voracious, hunting
> amphipods and little planaria like (nudibranchs?)
> worms. Are those creatures Anguilla larvae, reaching
> the Atlantic coast all the way from Sargasso Sea or
> something else? I can take more pictures if needed.
>
> Any comments will be appreciated.
> Here is a temporary link:
> http://www.2ba2.com/eel/eel.htm
>
> Thank you
> sorin
>
>
>
> --- geoffrey kimber <gkimber2-in-gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> count me in if my 9 year old can come.
>>
>> Geoff Kimber
>> Fredericksburg, VA
>>
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