Native, fresh water fish.

[Australis]

Does anyone here keep Australian native fresh water fish?
( i dont mean PNG/LFS ones either )

Here are a couple based on one creek locality.

Anyone keeping Glossamia sp - Mouth almighty?

Should of wiped the outside of the tank first.. oh well.

Er.

 

[IsK67]

Being totally ignorant of these things...What size are these? Do they get to an edible size?

oh and Thanks for sharing.

IsK

 

[froglet]

Love the gudgeon, is it a putple spotted?

Had two of those in with my cichlids when i still ahd my tank running

 

[Tsubakai]

I've got a purple-spotted gudgeon (bought from the LFS though). Pretty cool fish

 

[CGSwans]

I don't keep fish, but one day I'd love to have a big, multi-species enclosure for a freshwater croc, pig-nosed and northern snapping turtles and some freshwater tropical fish, such as lungfish, barramundi, perch and eels.

Sigh. Maybe one day some of these dreams will become real...

 

[dansfish4tea]

we have a murray cod, sleepy cod, Jade perch, and yellow eel-tailed cat fish. Dan really wants a lung fish but they are expensive nad hard to get

 

[Pinkenbah]

Yes I keep fish. Nice photos. What locality did they come from?

 

[kwaka_80]

pppfftttt my cichlid tank will own all of our native fish...

 

[Pinkenbah]

I saw a lung fish for sale at Cairns Ultimate Aquarium the other day. Not sure on price, but would hazard a guess at around $1500.

 

[dansfish4tea]

no cichlids will own my fish

hahaah my jade perch will smash your oscars


dan

 

[CGSwans]

I saw a lung fish for sale at Cairns Ultimate Aquarium the other day. Not sure on price, but would hazard a guess at around $1500.

About $500 according to this article - http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,23002311-3044,00.html

www.ceratodus.com

 

[Australis]

pppfftttt my cichlid tank will own all of our native fish...

Well, you havnt seen many native fish then.

Exotic fish are rubbish, anyone who says
otherwise is wrong.

 

[dansfish4tea]

sleepy cod

and my 4ft murry cod tank


had these fish for two years and both were less then 5cm when we got them


dan





i have better fotos some were theses dont do them justice

 

[Pinkenbah]

About $500 according to this article - http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,23002311-3044,00.html

www.ceratodus.com

Young = $500 according to the article. The one I saw was about 400mm.

 

[dansfish4tea]

thats one fish id love to own

ill just have to wait till i have the money

last time i saw these on the net thay said thay wont be available for another five years

but this is good news



what other aussie fish do u have there Australis
what size tanks do u own


cheers dan

 

[CGSwans]

Young = $500 according to the article. The one I saw was about 400mm.

Ah, fair enough.

Still, going by the article it would appear that the breeders want out. It might be worth buying a couple of young soonish if they're on your list.

 

[dansfish4tea]

any1 on here keep perch?????

 

[wicked reptiles]

I keep Barramundi, they are awesome!

 

[expansa1]

I don't keep fish, but one day I'd love to have a big, multi-species enclosure for a freshwater croc, pig-nosed and northern snapping turtles and some freshwater tropical fish, such as lungfish, barramundi, perch and eels.

Sigh. Maybe one day some of these dreams will become real...

I wouldn't be keeping Pig-nosed with other turtles. They can be extremely aggressive
to other turtles especially as sub-adults and adults. Someone we know had an adult rugosa torn apart by a Pig-nosed turtle (which was much smaller than the rugosa) while he was at work.

We have a 10,000 litre tank that has native fish that breed in there. We have rainbows (Crimson spotted-M.duboulayi), large Empire gudgeons, Eel-tailed Catfish, Purple spotted Gudgeons, Olive Perchlets(glass fish) and Fly specked Hardy Heads. The tank also has Irwin's turtles (which are the best looking snapping turtles in Australia), Eastern snake-necked turtles and Macleay River turtles. Mr Spike just recently had a dive in it and hand fed the turtles which is my favourite past-time. The water is crystal clear with a sand and river rock substrate with lots of logs for the turtles and fish to hide amongst.
Expansa1

 

[herptrader]

Lungfish even have morphs ;-) http://www.ceratodus.com/special.html

We have a native black brim in our turtle pond. We think we have a sole survivor of about 6 we put in a number of years back.