Freshwater GT

[Greatwhitebarbelbass]

Hi
Ive got 7 freshwater converted Caranx sexfasciatus in a floating cage in my 10 000 gallon monster pond. The eat guppies, shrimps and earthworms everyday for a couple weeks and seem great. Aggressive for food and lightning fast.

Here in South Africa we can legally keep 20 of an unregulated species per person overall (10 per day when collecting) with a marine fish collection permit. Here the trevally are unregulated with no minimum size limits.

In other words we can collect a shoal of 20 freshwater trevally. Which would be awesome and legal.


Has anyone had long term success with this fish? I don't want to collect them for problems later on.


Currently the water is pumped from the creek on our property. We are near the ocean so the water does have a little salinity to it (~1%)

Ill try get some gopro footage of them slamming guppies.

 

[tlindsey]

Hi
Ive got 7 freshwater converted Caranx sexfasciatus in a floating cage in my 10 000 gallon monster pond. The eat guppies, shrimps and earthworms everyday for a couple weeks and seem great. Aggressive for food and lightning fast.

Here in South Africa we can legally keep 20 of an unregulated species per person overall (10 per day when collecting) with a marine fish collection permit. Here the trevally are unregulated with no minimum size limits.

In other words we can collect a shoal of 20 freshwater trevally. Which would be awesome and legal.


Has anyone had long term success with this fish? I don't want to collect them for problems later on.


Currently the water is pumped from the creek on our property. We are near the ocean so the water does have a little salinity to it (~1%)

Ill try get some gopro footage of them slamming guppies.

kendragon

 

[kendragon]

1% is perfect brackish.
Sexfasciatus is BigEye not GT.

Let us know how it goes.

 

[Greatwhitebarbelbass]

Update: Fast little bastards, lightning fast. They have been free in the pond and shoal with the Monodactylus and ambassis sp.. Ive been feeding grass shrimp and guppies daily to satiation. Not really much to say other than they are doing good.

 

[Greatwhitebarbelbass]

I have been politley corrected with regards to the regulations regarding the collection of marine fish for aquarium. From the marine activity regulations brochure 2017/2018. So could have been updated subsequently.

AQUARIUM FISH
Regulations governing the harvesting of aquarium recreational fishers.

1. (1) A maximum of ten (10) fish may be harvested per day.
2. (2) A maximum of five (5) fish per species, which have been collected, may be held in captivity.
3. (3) No person may buy, barter, sell or offer for sale any fish or invertebrate caught with a recreational aquarium permit.
4. (4) The following species may not be caught.

So i may only keep 5 big eye kingfish in captivity. Whoops...

 

[Friller2009]

I have been politley corrected with regards to the regulations regarding the collection of marine fish for aquarium. From the marine activity regulations brochure 2017/2018. So could have been updated subsequently.

AQUARIUM FISH
Regulations governing the harvesting of aquarium recreational fishers.

1. (1) A maximum of ten (10) fish may be harvested per day.
2. (2) A maximum of five (5) fish per species, which have been collected, may be held in captivity.
3. (3) No person may buy, barter, sell or offer for sale any fish or invertebrate caught with a recreational aquarium permit.
4. (4) The following species may not be caught.

So i may only keep 5 big eye kingfish in captivity. Whoops...

You just miss identified the species as an unprotected one, it should be fine.