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I was surprised to learn that tropical fish get swept up into NY by the Gulf Stream every year. I filmed these spotfin butterflyfish off of Coney Island and made a short video about these little guys called Gulf Stream Orphans by scientists.
Is this something that you had heard of before? BTW any and all feedback welcomed.
Great idea you had to dive off Coney Island, who would have thought you would find tropical fish there.
Maybe you can organize your friends who have salt water aquariums to release some of their fish off Coney Island, to start a nice semi-tropical fish colony.
Ha! Nice idea Kraken. Though maybe better to work in reverse. Collect some of those fish from the ocean for home aquariums. It's their only hope for survival.
A lot of people actually collect these fish, including professional aquariums. NYTimes wrote up a fun article on it: https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/05/science/05fish.html
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