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Sea Life & Seaweed

Sea life from the Northern Atlantic Ocean. 50 degree F salt water species. Gulf of Maine Inc. supplies sea life, beach plants, and aquarium substrates from Maine, collected by hand.

Aquarium substrates

Arthropods

Bony fishes

Brachiopods

Bryozoa

Cartilaginous fishes

Cnidaria

Echinoderms

Gulf of Maine assortments

Macroalgae

Molluscs

Plankton

Saltwater plants

Sponges

Tunicates

Worms

Golden Star Tunicate (Botryllus schlosseri)

Golden Star Tunicate (Botryllus schlosseri)

from $50.00

Common name: golden star tunicate

Scientific name:  Botryllus schlosseri

Locations:  found on pilings, floats, rocks, buoys, kelp, & in tide-pools

Seasonality:  available year round

Colors:  peachy - brown and black with white and yellow zooids

Size:  1/4" - 6"

Collected:  by hand, knife to detach them from rocks

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An assortment of tunicates.

Tidepool Tim says,  "Golden star may be an invasive species and detrimental to some other organisms that it outcompetes, but it is a beautiful colonial tunicate.  The zooids resemble tiny flowers that pulse with water flow.  We find most colonies of this tunicate on docks & floats around our local shipping port in Eastport.  It's easy to imagine that some large ship or even a working barge may have brought the species here to our waters.  These tunicates spread rapidly across the seafloor and can out-compete barnacles, mussels, snails, and some algal species.  They are hermaphrodites.  They filter their food from the water with individual siphons, but excrete through a central pore. This is what gives them the 'star' look. Besides the very pretty black and white colonies, they can be yellow, orange, & red globby-looking masses.”


 

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Sea Vase (Ciona intestinalis)

from $60.00
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Sea Grape (Molgula)

from $55.00
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Gulf of Maine Tunicates (Sea Squirts - 6 Species)

from $185.00
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Sea Potato (Boltenia ovifera)

from $75.00
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Cactus Squirt (Boltenia echinata)

from $50.00