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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

Sea Grape (Molgula)

Sea Grape (Molgula)

from $55.00

Common name: sea grape

Scientific name:  Molgula spp.

Locations:  mooring lines, buoys, traps, pilings, floats, salmon pens, undersides of rocks

Seasonality:  available year round

Colors:  dull gray or translucent gray

Size:  1/2" - 1"

Collected:  by hand, scrape off rocks and lines

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Sea grapes attached to a kelp holdfast and a sponge.

 

Tidepool Tim says, "Sea grapes are pretty boring, really.  Not much to say about them except for the fact that they're another species of tunicates that we have here in our cold Atlantic waters.  They are common on EVERYTHING that is floating out here in our bay from channel markers to lobster buoys, to mooring lines.  They literally COVER the nets used in our local salmon aquaculture farms.  Sometimes there are so many sea grapes growing on a net that massive cranes must be brought in just to change the nets out on the salmon cages. 

In our tidepooling quests we often see them cemented to the bottoms of rocks that have good water flow under them.  They do look like a peeled grape or a jelly-bean that some kid sucked the outside off and pitched into the sea.  Looking closely, one can see the siphons and the primitive guts through their tunic or skin.  There are a bunch of different species around - we call them all 'grapes'. Often they are mixed in with several other species of squirts on a rocky bottom and also beside lamp shell."

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Sea Vase (Ciona intestinalis)

from $60.00
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Sea Peach (Halocynthia aurantium)

from $70.00
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Sea Potato (Boltenia ovifera)

from $75.00
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Gulf of Maine Tunicates (Sea Squirts - 6 Species)

from $185.00
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Cactus Squirt (Boltenia echinata)

from $50.00