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Not sure why you think they fade with age, have a few large ones that have better colours than some of my smaller ones, including one that is going to a red base.

Great pic! Not surprised they would be down in the salt breeding. Interesting to see them in chinaman ck. have caught them in a small drain at trinity as well, definitely more widespread than many believe.

Cheers guys, cat is a Neoarius midgleyi. There are two in that pond, both wildcaught, got the big one in a hand net (pretty wild day). They are in with a pair of rtc, pair of pbass, 3 grey gg, pink gg and rtgg. That pond is 6000L and the whole system it's connected to has another 4 x 2500L ponds...

Giving the big aussie native some nosh. Still growing, should hit a touch over 4ft. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4_2SL2mZKg

Size is between 3.5ft & 1.5ft all were caught by me. Paramus from where they were caught in charneys thread. I have coral in the tank coz our water is super soft. Fish with them are Kuhlia marginata and rupestris (jungle perch and red tail jungle perch). Both occur alongside the eels in the...

Quick feeding vid of the 3.5ft midgleyi. There are much bigger ones where he came from, next weekends mission is a 4fter and some jardinis ;-) http://youtu.be/y4_2SL2mZKg

My gymno's getting stuck into some chopped prawn http://youtu.be/W4xwQtWNY_g

I will read it again tomor but I think it was concluded that the eels can utilise both environments. It was noted that all the eels from the study were captured in fresh. This also supports Brendan's first paper, very few eels were documented in brackish environments and the smallest eel was one...

pH ranges from 6.8 to 7.2 GH 1 KH 1 I was talking to Ebner on Friday night, he hasn't done the otoliths but he was at a conference the other week and met some other scientists have. I had a read of their paper, eels appear to be living in fresh and brackish only. The eels they used for the...

Will dig out the params of the various creeks and post up. I'm in cairns in far north Australia. Will try get pics of the various colours, maybe one in twenty has the red base. No idea on the age of the bigger ones, Brendan who is studying them has some that size including one called black Betty...

Nice crew Charney, I've got 6 now that I've caught. Have seen some interesting things with these in the wild. Firstly, when you find one, you usually find a few more in very close proximity. One night we uncovered about 10 living in an area about 6ft squared, ranging from 6" up to 4ft. I have...

Here's three G. polyuranodon I caught the other week. Never seen them in anything other than full fresh. Caught at night with spotlight and handnets. Not the easiest thing to catch, they can disappear into the smallest gaps under rocks. Biggest is 2.5ft, little guy is about 11". Beautiful eels...

Some of the rarer natives...freshwater morays (Gymnothorax polyuranodon). They are in with 4 red tail jungle perch (kuhlia marginata) which are also very rare.

My effort with 3 pairs in a 60,000L swimming pool Free swimming fry A few weeks older 2-2.5" Parents

Latest tandanus fishing expedition...this guy was getting a nest ready, nice blue eyes, let him go though. Quite a few in the area.

Don't think they are bred and therefore unlikely to be exported from Oz. Best person I can think of to contact is Dave Wilson @ aquagreen. He catches them and might know of someone who has an export licence but I wouldn't hold my breath. Email is aqua.green at bigpond.com

Didn't realise you were behind Ballarat Steve! Good job!

Not trying to be a dic or anything ut whydoes this thread even exist? Albino, leuc, etc thread here http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?44836-Albino-Leucistic-Xanthic-Melanistic-etc-Fish Oddball and rare thread here...

Looks like it. Never seen anyone convert at that size, usually just catch them in freshwater when they are little and grow out.

Bob always had people asking to buy the gold and plat in his shop but very few kkepers in Cairns who are willing to pay for them. I'd say the above prices still hold true, always harder to move larger fish on though. If you are willing to ship and can do it reliably then the Sydney/Bris market...