Been a while since I was out in the pools but this weekend was perfect tide wise so I made the journey to Coral beach once more. The pools looked nice and not as overgrown as the last time in November. The tide was very low at 0.5m so I was hoping for some good…
A recent netting session for sandeel as fishing bait was produced a lovely surprise. We where out with a 5m gillnet in search for sandeel in about 1.5m of water. We pulled the net between us trying to chase the sandeel shoals into the net. A very good first haul has produced around 200 Sandeels…
Started writing this post about three weeks ago, only finishing it now with more updates so its a bit mixed… A good clean of the tank was badly needed. Removed loads of hairalgea and old dead seaweed. Was hoping to find some new seaweed on my last trip but to my extreme surprise the pools…
Puuiuuhh, where should I start… Very much has happened so an update is overdue. I guess I will have to split into a few posts to get up to date again… Lets start with thanking the sun and moon for giving us a fantastic really low low tide (0.2m) 🙂 and nice enough weather at…
A break in the weather at last. I was itching to get out rockpooling as the weather was violent for a few weeks now. Really heavy storms and raging seas. Was hoping that the storms might carry some goodies from the deep up to reachable places. Coral beach was the only place I dared to…
Another lesson learnt with how rockpooling trips never turn out the way you plan them, so far always in a good way 🙂 The Plan was to escort a few holiday makers  back to where they came from as they got a bit cheeky and/or greedy so their holidays got cancelled. The main culprit was…
It was time again to give the hobby crab creel and the drop net a try to see what might turn up. The water in the Spiddal pier was very clear recently as it wasnt raining much so the river is fairly low which is nice because you can see whats going on on the…
This weekend I made two rockpooling trips in search for some small sea urchins, a few nice rocks and seaweed to finish the tank, and hopefully some surprises which is always the best. I wanted to write about the lights and seaweeds next but I found some new to me species so I write a bit…
Was out again south of coral beach (Rinn) at my favorite huge rockpools. The plan was to use my selfmade plasticbottle traps baited with mackerel to try and catch some wrasse or two spotted gobies as I cant see a way of netting them. Too fast for me 😉 Well that was the plan… While…
Its time for an update as a lot has happened in the tank. I have been building the Hood and pipework in the back of the tank (see other post) so after I moved the tank back against the wall I was able to get started really filling up the tank with more rocks, seaweed…
Irish Rockpool Aquarium Adventures 