Had a great time this weekend in Port Aransas and found all kinds of cool stuff collecting:
We found:
-Sargassum shrimp
-ghost shrimp
-blue crabs
-some kind of weird green pointy shrimp
-unidentified crabs
-blennies
-a baby flounder
-a baby grunt
-a seahorse
-4 pipefish
and about 200 peppermints.
Now come the part about my car stinking....
Outside of Beeville on the way home we stopped for gas. The car was smelling unusually ripe even for one filled with sea creatures. We checked on the critters and everything seemed to be ok, but were having trouble with the two air pumps shutting off randomly.
Come home and find out that out of the 200 peps, probably 30 were alive and those went immediately into my tank. We'll see how many survive but let me tell you, it sucked.
Lesson learned for the future... collect the peppermints quickly and have a tank ready for them.