I'll let everybody know before I go diving again so that If you want a blenny I can try to get you one. They are not going to be for free, I'll charge $10 a piece. I would like to sell enough of them to cover my dive trip expences. That's not a bad price for a fish that you want find in any stores.
Glad you cleared that up...We should be able to get some small sand stars for your fuge also ...maybe a brittle star also....saw some sea whips or simular also....To clear up the price issue...we can either shoot some snapper to eat or gather some small items for sell...either will help pay for gas....Not trying to make a profit just offset the expense of gas...and airfills...even on a good day...gas and air fills are about $50 each.
Alabama really doesn't have any laws controling collecting. As long as you don't get out into federal waters you can pretty much get anything you want.
I don't know about Alabama, but in Florida they you can collect a certain amount of soft corals as long as you don't collect any substrate that is larger than a quarter per day with a valid fishing licence. I don't think that there are any limitations on fish.
Are there any hard corals in the northern gulf? I really wouldn't have thought there were any anemones so I really don't know. I like to stay on top of the water.
I have made a few dives 20miles out where you will start to see some red general stars, and few simple corals and sponges...sand stars and brittle stars sponges and urchins arrow crabs angles, blennies,ect are in closer.
You guys haven't mentioned anything that I don’t want! Next time you go, count on my $10 'donation'!
I'd like any refuge items (long-spiny-purple urchin, blenny, starfish, etc.), fish only items (whatever you can find), and also reef items (sea whips, tube anemone, etc.).
I think it's awesome that you guys are willing to do this for the group. Hopefully this will give you a good 'excuss' to do dive a few extra times!
One think I do warn is to not put any rock or anything directly into tank...place in quarnteen even if in a bucket....ect to make sure of hitchhiker..crabs ect are very small sometimes and other eggs...you do not want a blue crab in your reef about two months down the road....trust me on this one...I still had my 50gal and but some rubble in thought it looked good....about 4months later this large claw came reaching out....took me a while to get them all out....had about a dozen blue crabs in the tank and they were taking out my good stuff.....
