Cpetroskys Florida Beach findings!

What part of Florida are you in?

The starfish is a no go. Olive snail is fine. Barnacles are up to you but they probably won't live long and the algae is not something I would risk putting in my tank without a definitive ID.

I believe you can collect (in limited numbers and obvious attention to species) with a fishing license in Fla. But the whole thing has gotten to be quite a bureaucratic mess down there so I could very well be wrong.

+1 on the star unless it's a FOWLR you're putting it in. Olive snail's fine. The barnacle cluster I would leave be. The requirements (tidal/water movement/feeding) are so tough to meet in your tank, it's most likely not gonna last a week. Anything you collect yourself should be QT'd.

The starfish gets too big. Pretty sure they are sand-sifters also. It'll starve or lack the required room to move, even in a monster tank.

The algae, if it is the type I'm thinking of (not sure on species but I see it on rocks a lot) it doesn't do well in the aquarium. It likes a bit more chaos then we usually offer, even in a SPS tank. Basically, look what it grows around. A creature that genrally doesn't survive in the aquarium for the same reasons.



Also be careful about collection rules. That last one (the barnacles and algaes) could potentially be considered "live rock".

cpetrosky said:

Conch thing. It has a black foot if it helps on an id
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Lightning Whelk from the look of it.

Not sure how it'd do in the aquarium. It is a bivalve hunter. Whelks can be tricky. I have a Crown Conch (Whelk) in my tank that doesn't hurt anything. Acts like a giant Nassarius. But Whelks in general are predatory. It is just a matter of how lazy they are that determines if they'll work in the aquarium. The lazier the better.