Exploring New York City! Ship wrecks and horseshoe crabs

[@--PYOWICK--]

Southern Bklyn is littered with horseshoe crabs. I grew up a few blocks away from that beach, your seeing it clean, back in the 80's and early 90's plumb beach looked like a dystopian nightmare. We had a lot fun on that beach in those days

[@submergedstories]

Great video dude, its awesome to see you in NYC. I'm from here and so many locals under appreciate how interesting our local wildlife is so it makes me so happy to see your enthusiasm and spreading the good word! I was out last full moon looking at the horseshoe crabs too, they are amazing! If you ever come back, you should look for tropical reef fish orphans. We get butterflyfish and pufferfish off of Coney Island! I am still looking for a live seahorse as well. I keep checking an ~allegedly~ promising site but have yet to find one.

[@alex4alexn]

i caught some pipefish on the cape nearby, never seen a seahorse though, maybe one day

[@mikaellugo4146]

Agreed I like working by the Hudson cause I get to see all of the cool birds that stop by lol, I’m sure there’s some interesting stuff lurking in the river once in a while

[@cobalt1754]

"We all float down here." -Groundhog at 1:11, probably

[@kezo1410]

I love everything about this vlog, specially how you know so much about the sealife

[@IronOak64]

You’re my new favorite channel. Keep up the good work!

[@MikeHere]

I found a live sea horse once off the coast of North Carolina. It was hanging onto a clump of floating plant material the size of a grape fruit. I wished it the best of luck at the time but assumed the worst would happen.

[@amazingaquaticsandexotics3030]

never a dull moment when you upload. btw i was wondering if you have any tips for raising bullfrog tadpoles. i currently have a 6 gallon tank with an internal filter, some floaters and a bit of cork bark.

[@CowTurtle]

Sounds good they don’t need anything to specific cork bark works great as they start to leave the water.

[@ALC570]

Love the videos of your trips it’s so interesting to see different ecosystems

[@mackie_p]

I just learnt about how important horseshoe crabs are! soooo cool!

[@InternalEvil123]

So wholesome, love all your videos keep it up mate

[@hisuigayarudo1983]

Nice to see you expand your content bro! Goodluck

[@BooBuKittyPhuk]

That groundhog reminded me of "IT" for some reason... Pennywise the Dancing groundhog 😬😬😬😳😱

[@robertandrews8677]

I grew up around the city. A lot of people don't realize how much wildlife lives within NYC city limits. There are also wild turkeys in the Bronx.

[@oopsalldeoxys5060]

Horseshoe crabs are so cute

[@TealCheetah]

that barnacle load is crazy

[@parptot]

that horseshoe crab at the start look like a final boss

[@ghostofsparta196]

Haha back to the Eel Pit!! 😂 Great Vlog- very calming and wholesome! Makes me feel there is still good out there 👍

[@ClivTurtlez]

Horse shoe crabs look like aliens to me very cool

[@BobAquatic]

I fish those areas, plumb beach near that wreck is a popular kite surfing launch at high tide. Glad you had fun trip!

[@CheapCreep]

It's sad to see all the litter and graffiti. Awesome video.

[@HuckleberryHim]

This is pretty damn spotless for NYC!

[@gayforbrae5693]

man i would love to be some guy who just gets employed to go around cleaning horseshoe crabs

[@natep8871]

Hey man I enjoy watching your videos especially this one , I never pictured New York having a place like that. Keep up the great work. Watching from South Auckland, New Zealand.

[@user-tr8uj6xe9n]

Plumb Beach is so cool! So much dead wildlife though, last time I went I found 4 beached sharks, a few fish, seagulls and so many horseshoe crabs.

[@sharim]

This is totally the best channel bar none.

[@erichtomanek4739]

In all the documentaries that have Horse Shoe Crabs, not one showed them encrusted with barnacles as you have. I wonder what else they don't show us? Thanks for an informative and visually appealing video.

[@HuckleberryHim]

To be fair I don't know if it's everywhere, I have seen several dead horseshoes in the NE US and I don't remember them being encrusted, at least not nearly this bad

[@oldsmugglerflyfishing]

Those horseshoe crabs creek me out.

[@symbungee]

Oh I saw your shipwreck boats with the tide pool on another channel... maybe... Crime Pays But Botany Doesnt? 🤔

[@gayforbrae5693]

horseshoe crabs are one of my dream animals honestly like if i had say a giant water tight room underneath my house with no other purpose in life 100% i would be making it into a horseshoe crab tank its a shame theres no dwarf form that stays aquarium sized because theyre such cool creatures

[@SoopaMangoPoo]

Have you heard of triops? They come in kits like seamonkies but they look more like horseshoe crabs. They are pretty small too so you don’t need a big aquarium for them

[@gayforbrae5693]

yea triops are cool but like i dont have a freshwater tank its not like i can just throw them in my current saltwater tank unlike i could theoretically do with a horseshoe crab i have no room left in my house for more tanks or animals lol

[@Unlike230]

You're so kind to help those creatures. What beach was that with the horseshoe crabs?

[@Chemical1Objectivity]

Also- as much as you want to pull barnacles off the crabs, doing so is not recommended if you are not trained with the right equipment and sanitized environment. Barnacles don’t just attach to the surface, they develop deep bonds. It would be not only very painful for the animal, but would risk infection.

[@corneliusmcmuffin3256]

If Cow Turtle and AVNJ do a collab it will break fish youtube…

[@janruss3729]

He beached himself so someone would come along and get the barnacles off his back. Lol

[@BrendansMomFitnessOfficial]

You built a large scale aquariam under your garage, please contact your local news station and tell them about it.

[@CowTurtle]

They’ve already been over haha I’ve been on CNN too.

[@sharim]

He actually didn’t build it. A lot of houses in his area have them, they’re rainwater cisterns. Just NW of downtown Houston is a 87,500 sq ft cistern, built in 1926 to supplement drinking water for the city. It’s the size of 1.5 football fields and held 15 million gallons of water when functioning at capacity. The roof is held up by 221- 25-foot tall, slender concrete columns and the space has a 17-second echo! Decommissioned about 20 years ago, it’s now a space for events and art exhibits. I attended a light/music installation that was totally trippy.

[@BrendansMomFitnessOfficial]

@@sharim Thank you for this information. The Buffalo Bayou park cistern is now on my list of travels across the world. I always enjoy seeing repurposed structures as well as unique objects.

[@SamCyanide]

I'm so sorry you had to endure new York city

[@scoutosaurus3473]

Were you on Staten Island

[@pcparrotta]

Seeing the boat as an artificial tide pool was really cool

[@Chemical1Objectivity]

Were you in White Island in lower Brooklyn?

[@katyungodly]

I wonder if the birds are purposefully flipping them over? How else could they possibly become flipped?

[@ItsComicKid]

he random ft Tilden is in Rockaway Park, Queens close but not Brooklyn theirs lots of cool wild life all over the rockaways

[@Mars_junior]

What are the horseshoe crabs predators?

[@janruss3729]

He's hiding from the slaughter house! Poor birds.

[@mgasparoni]

🐿

[@thylaconical2840]

Do you ever use iNaturalist to document what you see?

[@CowTurtle]

I use it to keep track of all the fish species I’ve seen haha

[@josiahsfishing]

Question about lemon plecos . I have a bunch of lemon blue eye plecos which have the super yellow gene in them how much would they be worth

[@CowTurtle]

Id say $20-40 depending on size is fair.

[@josiahsfishing]

@@CowTurtle okay thank you there about a inch right now also do you want a few

[@KrisPSouls9258]

Those horseshoe crabs look horrible there with all the barnacles all over them. But anyways besides going to the Comic, Card, Toys and Petstores I like staying away from the city. I enjoy being away from everything and seeing the wildlife more.

[@MrDuck420]

Did you see any ducks?

[@robertoso8796]

wtf is that red dragon? where were you, some lord of the rings museum?

[@rig-g1802]

Bro went to see my childhood spot and didn’t tell me to pu

[@robertmcmanus636]

"I'm not vegan, but..." as if there's something wrong with the respect vegans show their fellow travelers on planet Earth. We could learn from those kind of people.

[@HuckleberryHim]

Yeah, unless he doesn't eat meat or eggs or is exclusively getting them from actual open-range animals, this is exactly what happens behind closed doors for the food he eats. It's shocking to see it in person, but easy to ignore when you don't have to look. Not saying open-range stuff is okay btw

[@floored3078]

Lol

[@thisperson2963]

No invite I’m hurt

[@cinnamonoa]

poor birds :(

[@randomnessx3597]

kreb

[@Chemical1Objectivity]

“I’m not vegan, but it was sad to see all of these animals packed in cages”. I’m glad to see people have the courage to empathize with animals. It shows a real potential to adapt a vegan lifestyle for compassion for the animals.

[@boblick3354]

Fortnite is the best

[@scoutosaurus3473]

Why are you here and no it’s not

[@boblick3354]

@@scoutosaurus3473 i like cow turtle

[@scoutosaurus3473]

Why r u talking about fortnight

[@CowTurtle]

I guess it still helps the algorithm haha

[@boblick3354]

@@CowTurtle ofc

[@TheBoshy]

I do wish you would not feed the animals so.