Blue Heron Bridge Trolls III

[Scuba_Jenny]

Looks like I'll be out of the water for another week or so.. I picked up some sort of funky. Started last Thursday as some bumps on the back of my leg. (I did a lot of yard work last Tuesday). Don't know if it was that, the weekend at Ginnie Springs, or a combination of the two or more..
Anyways, went to urgent care today. I need to keep the area covered and dry... Dang.. Taking antibiotics, antihistimes, applying creams...

 

[MrChen]

Looks like I'll be out of the water for another week or so.. I picked up some sort of funky. Started last Thursday as some bumps on the back of my leg. (I did a lot of yard work last Tuesday). Don't know if it was that, the weekend at Ginnie Springs, or a combination of the two or more..
Anyways, went to urgent care today. I need to keep the area covered and dry... Dang.. Taking antibiotics, antihistimes, applying creams...

I'm tired of your excuses

 

[Scuba_Jenny]

ha. me too.. this has gone on way too long...
thought some salt water would do it good, but the doc said keep it clean, covered, and dry before I could even ask about diving..
The shot in the butt wasn't fun either..

 

[Pipehorse]

Went to the bridge for diving today. Arrived at 0730 for an 0750 high tide. The park was empty. Entered the water on the westside at 0750 with just my trusty aluminum 50cuft tank. Meandered west keeping just south of the bridge foundations. Made it the channel barrier, and circled around the solid wall bridge foundation. Meandered back east but slightly more south, to pick up the snorkel trail. Did half the snorkel trail, turned north to head for the beach. Once in shallow water near the beach I headed west again to exit at the most western part of the beach. Two hours on my 50cuft, not bad. Air consumption is always improved when you move sllloooowwwllllly in shallow warm water. Visibility was about 25ft, even with the tide turning as I was getting in the water. Sea temp was 84f. Did a REEF fish survey of 62 species in 60 minutes. No exceptional standouts with regards to critters and fish.

Has anybody noticed that when clicking on a profile and then clicking on messages, the most recent message to appear will be no greater than Sept 2? I thought it was just mine, but it seems to be with any profile I tested it on? A bug perhaps?

As is often the case, you leave me scratching my head once again. Is a big eye snapper the same as a big eye toro? Or are they different fish? When I catch a toro, I can ID it by the smell. In the water like this, I don't have that crutch to fall back on.

Actually I had never seen or heard the name Bigeye Toro. But yes I believe we are talking about the same species, Bigeye Toro=Bigeye Snapper=Atlantic Bigeye=Priacanthus arenatus not to be confused with the similar looking Glasseye Snapper=Glasseye=Heteropriacanthus cruentatus.

Respectively, Black Grouper, Flying Gurnard, Giant Murex, Juvenile Gray Snapper, and Rainbow Parrotfish

 

[Johnoly]

Has anybody noticed that when clicking on a profile and then clicking on messages, the most recent message to appear will be no greater than Sept 2? .... A bug perhaps?

Not just you...... @buddhasummer & @rongoodman mentioned it also. @Pedro Burrito said on Sunday they were checking alot of error messages and working on it.

You should contribute your RMV air specs of 2hrs on an teeny AL50 tank to @scubadada 's POLL . That's incredible air sipping !!

 

[agilis]

Went to the bridge for diving today. Arrived at 0730 for an 0750 high tide. The park was empty. Entered the water on the westside at 0750 with just my trusty aluminum 50cuft tank. Meandered west keeping just south of the bridge foundations. Made it the channel barrier, and circled around the solid wall bridge foundation. Meandered back east but slightly more south, to pick up the snorkel trail. Did half the snorkel trail, turned north to head for the beach. Once in shallow water near the beach I headed west again to exit at the most western part of the beach. Two hours on my 50cuft, not bad. Air consumption is always improved when you move sllloooowwwllllly in shallow warm water. Visibility was about 25ft, even with the tide turning as I was getting in the water. Sea temp was 84f. Did a REEF fish survey of 62 species in 60 minutes. No exceptional standouts with regards to critters and fish.

Has anybody noticed that when clicking on a profile and then clicking on messages, the most recent message to appear will be no greater than Sept 2? I thought it was just mine, but it seems to be with any profile I tested it on? A bug perhaps?


Actually I had never seen or heard the name Bigeye Toro. But yes I believe we are talking about the same species, Bigeye Toro=Bigeye Snapper=Atlantic Bigeye=Priacanthus arenatus not to be confused with the similar looking Glasseye Snapper=Glasseye=Heteropriacanthus cruentatus.

Respectively, Black Grouper, Flying Gurnard, Giant Murex, Juvenile Gray Snapper, and Rainbow ParrotfishView attachment 802264View attachment 802265View attachment 802266View attachment 802267View attachment 802268

I know Priacanthus arenatus as the Short Bigeye. I caught one a couple of weeks ago here in NJ in Barnegat Inlet. It lives in my aquarium where it will stay until it gets too large, when it will go to a local aquarium. These juveniles are rare. The die when water temps drop off too low, along with all the other tropical strays.

 

[Divin'Papaw]

You should contribute your RMV air specs of 2hrs on a teeny AL50 tank to @scubadada 's POLL . That's incredible air sipping !!

He was alternating between his snorkel & his reg

 

[PBcatfish]

Actually I had never seen or heard the name Bigeye Toro. But yes I believe we are talking about the same species, Bigeye Toro=Bigeye Snapper=Atlantic Bigeye=Priacanthus arenatus not to be confused with the similar looking Glasseye Snapper=Glasseye=Heteropriacanthus cruentatus.

Local fishermans' names can be regional. I have caught several Bigeye Toros, acording to the locals I have fished with & according to a book called Sport Fish of Florida, by Vic Dunaway (page 125). That book doesn't list a bigeye snapper, but he may just not have considered it to be a sport fish and therefore omited it. Or, he may just not know it by that name. He gives a secondary name of Comico for the Toro, but no others. A woman I know calls them Larry fish, but that's an inside joke. The book lists them with miscellaneous reef fish, rather than with the snappers, but it's a fisherman's book, not a scientific manual.

The Toros smell like iodine, which is what makes the ID a lock. The book doesn't say that, but they locals do. I didn't know if there was also a similar fish that did not stink like that. It would not surprise me if there was. A lot of the colorful reef fish seem to have close cousins. Also fishermen tend to incorrectly group fish sometimes. It's common for a local to call a hog fish a hog snapper, and there is even a local restaurant by that name, but I believe that the hogs are actually in the wrasse family, and not really a snapper.

Maybe someday I'll learn the real names, but Priacanthus arenatus is a bit of a mouth full for me right now. I have a hard enough time remembering what caudal peduncle is.

Thank you for the insight. As always, you expand my knowledge of what is out there. BHB provides a marvelous environment for finding new things in a very small area, and you have proven to be the best resource for identifying them.

 

[agilis]

Local fishermans' names can be regional. I have caught several Bigeye Toros, acording to the locals I have fished with & according to a book called Sport Fish of Florida, by Vic Dunaway (page 125). That book doesn't list a bigeye snapper, but he may just not have considered it to be a sport fish and therefore omited it. Or, he may just not know it by that name. He gives a secondary name of Comico for the Toro, but no others. A woman I know calls them Larry fish, but that's an inside joke. The book lists them with miscellaneous reef fish, rather than with the snappers, but it's a fisherman's book, not a scientific manual.

The Toros smell like iodine, which is what makes the ID a lock. The book doesn't say that, but they locals do. I didn't know if there was also a similar fish that did not stink like that. It would not surprise me if there was. A lot of the colorful reef fish seem to have close cousins. Also fishermen tend to incorrectly group fish sometimes. It's common for a local to call a hog fish a hog snapper, and there is even a local restaurant by that name, but I believe that the hogs are actually in the wrasse family, and not really a snapper.

Maybe someday I'll learn the real names, but Priacanthus arenatus is a bit of a mouth full for me right now. I have a hard enough time remembering what caudal peduncle is.

Thank you for the insight. As always, you expand my knowledge of what is out there. BHB provides a marvelous environment for finding new things in a very small area, and you have proven to be the best resource for identifying them.

Short Bigeye and Catalufa are the two names I'm familiar with.

 

[PBcatfish]

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You should contribute your RMV air specs of 2hrs on an teeny AL50 tank to @scubadada 's POLL . That's incredible air sipping !!

You should see Scuba_Jenny go. She's good for over 3 hours on a steel 80 and she wasn't sipping on a snorkel. I swear that woman has a set of gills hidden somewhere.