Juvenile Mangrove Jack update!!

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Found it!! Was when I was a lot younger and chubbier!! :ROFL:
I'm glad I found this, it's been a while!
[video=youtube;I2QHCIGxklw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2QHCIGxklw[/video]
 
I did want to keep another one but now I want to eat one.
 
:ROFL:yeah they are really good eating! ranked up with Coral Trout Barramundi and Whiting. I'm not a big fan of fish but my grandma loves them, she lights up when I bring one home. I do practice catchh and release quite a lot now. Only 2-3 fish in the videos were released, the rest were eaten. But I haven't snagged a Jack in about a year and a half now, they seem to be disappearing quickly. And the floods at the start of last year washed most of the structure out of the rivers and just left silty bottoms. Not just lots of catfish. :irked:
Theres only 3 hatcheries in Australia that I know of that breed Mangrove Jacks, and only the one in the NT seems to be getting anywhere. The others haven't had success in almost 2 years. I was lucky because my LFS got some wild caught ones in from ''some old swampy guy'' I was happy.
 
Interesting and probably why they are rarely seen in stores here anymore..They were rather cheap when they were sold here years ago and some stores would try to pass them off as red fin datnoids...The last ones I saw for sale were considerably more expensive and very small.
 
Yeah i've heard a lot about that, it would be illegal to sell them as red finned datnoids? How muchha re you paying over there when you come across one?
 
[video=facebook;4486444409561]https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=4486444409561&l=2777520530656220383[/video]
Jacks doing really well, here he is eating a few feeder gudgeons.
 
My plecos never eat the fuzz off driftwood. Only fish I've gotten that reliably does that are chinese algae eaters... If the fuzz gets bad enough I'll buy one of these, drop him in the tank for a day or three, then get rid of them asap. Will never let one grow up again, they are mean sob's and seem to love scales more than real food.
 
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