ausralian natives

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guppy

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Apr 15, 2005
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Since we now have some Australian members I am curious as to how many keep fresh wate or brackish native fishes.
Also who else does and what species. Other than aros we just don't see very many in the US.
Here are some I would like but can't house or find right now,

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Hey i used to keep some natives and i'm going to get some again soon!
I think my favourites by far though are the Murray Cod and Barramundi. We have Bass over here too but not like your Bass. Ours look more like a perch type fish and are called Australian Bass. We have many types of Perch over here tropical or cold water like Silver Perch and Yellow Belly (golden perch). Have you ever heard of Grunters? well we also have lots of them too like sooty, yellow bartail, spangeld perch/grunter and more.
There are some other fish which inhabit the waters with the barramundi which are also predatory brackish fishes like fingermark bream and mangrove Jacks.
There are more fish like Cat fishes and eels that we get.
I think that almost covers it, oh yeah we have many various gobys too!

Hey btw, the pic in the bottom left, do you want to keep one of those? it is a Whiting right?
 
Ive kept a few gudgeons before and some grunters.

The only AUS native I have atm is a leichardti and I gave away some scats the other day.

I have the chance to get hold of some 24 inch archer fish but I want the tank for somthing else.
 
Let see,
top row left to right, Jellybean jollytail, shortfinned eel, desert goby
second row, fourfingered threadfin, forked tail catfish
third row, snub nosed garfish, common tandan(eeltailed catfish)
fourth row, jardini aro, southern conger eel
bottom, I forgot what this is but it lives in fresh water rivers and down into mangrove swamps, gets a little under 1/2 meter long.

I would pretty much like every fish but these are ones that catch my eye while I'm web surfing, You have such great fish yet spend so much on imports. The same happens here with or darters, sunnies, and shiners.

I see you have 4 species of archer fish, dozens of gobies and gudgeons, hardy heads galaxia, eeltails, fish that live in wet leaves, and other things that anyone interested really has to search just to learn about let alone purchase.

Here are a couple more I like, these are,
top, Koenigsberg's herring, spotted mountain trout
2nd line, Berney's catfish, congolli
3rd, fresh water moray, sleepy cod
4th, barcoo
and last, one that really intrigues me from northern Australia, a freshwater/brackish water fish that gets 63 cm. long and the male carries the eggs around "like a bunch of grapes" on the hook on it's forehead , the humphead or nurseryfish. Now that is cool.

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Barcoo grunters are very cool.

Great fish.
 
Steve_89 said:
Barcoo grunters are very cool.

Great fish.
Fat buggers, very cool. Have you ever seen those weird humpheads, if they weren't in fishbase I would not believe in them.
 
Currently the only native I have is the Murray Cod. But previously I have owned a lot of natives, I prefer Aust. natives over imports for a few reasons. :D

Some Aussies I've owned:

- Barramundi
- Jardini Arowana
- Salmon Catfish
- Desert Goby
- A few Aust/Papua New Guniea rainbow fish (cant remember the exact species)
- Eel Tail Catfish
- Yellow belly (golden perch)

There have probably been other but I cant remember them at the moment :confused:
 
guppy said:
Fat buggers, very cool. Have you ever seen those weird humpheads, if they weren't in fishbase I would not believe in them.

Nope never seen those humphead fish.

Didnt even know the existed :confused:
 
The 2nd row pic to the right is a Herring i think and even in AUS are pretty rare. I've never seen them for sale and have never seen or heard anyone catching one of these. The only place i have seen one of these fish is at a LFS display tank and it is really a MONSTER fish, i have not seen any other fish take a snap like this fish - it is one aggressive eater! I WANT ONE!
 
That hum head fish thing is one of the weirdest things i have ever seen!
Ive never even heard of them before.......
But i love my Aussie natives too, i want to start a rainbow fish tank so that i can show all the colours, they look awesome!
 
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