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Post by joelmennie on Apr 22, 2012 17:02:05 GMT 11
Hey guys new to the forum can't seem to figure out how to post pics of my fone sorry. Anyway was catching guppies for my barra at a storm water run off at Cardiff. Caught a glipse of a school of fish 6-7inchs long. brown with black spots thinking they were trout could this be possible? In Cardiff??? AnywAy caught my guppies went home and noticed I had caught a fish tiny bit bigger that the guppies but didn't school with them seems alot smarter than them to hide from the barra it has small black spots and pink checks could it be a rainbow trout? Any help loading a pic would be great hopefully the barra don't get him lol
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Post by Admin on Apr 22, 2012 18:17:58 GMT 11
wont be a trout...Tooo hot here for them and the things your calling guppies will be gambusia.
To upload a piccy you need to use something like photo bucket and cut n paste the IMG code.
cheers
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Post by renji on Apr 22, 2012 18:30:57 GMT 11
i hear about some of you guys going and catching your own fish, aka guppies and native shrimp. If you catch guppies from the wild would they still be healthy and breed with guppies from the pet shop, because i see the grey guppies in the rivers but not the colourful males (or have i got two species mixed up)
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Post by Admin on Apr 22, 2012 18:39:38 GMT 11
Ill say it in another way then....
They are not Guppies.
There are fancy guppies 'Poecilia reticulata' The ones you see in fish shops, Aquarium trade etc. and mosquito fish 'Gambusia holbrooki' Caught out of drains creeks and dams, unquarentined wild(introduced) fish.
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Post by moy on Apr 22, 2012 18:41:03 GMT 11
They are a noxious pest called gambusia and carry disease. I wouldnt feed to fish unless quarentineed and defferntly not breed them with guppys.
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Post by renji on Apr 22, 2012 18:42:25 GMT 11
oh yeah, gambusia i have heard of them ive just never heard people call them guppies, Thanks for that Renji
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Post by Admin on Apr 22, 2012 18:44:45 GMT 11
larger fish could be mullet, had plenty of swollen creeks lately, and looks like another Gutter Raker on its way so they could be moving up into the back waters for protection.
Does that creek at cardiff join the drain system that finally empties into the lake?
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Post by renji on Apr 22, 2012 18:49:37 GMT 11
Never heard of Gudgeons up until now, just googled it and they look really nice, especially the peacock and the purple spotted Gudgeons. Can you catch these types or do you buy them at a petshop?
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Post by moy on Apr 22, 2012 18:55:40 GMT 11
I agree with dean. I reckon it would have been a potty mullet. Their is heaps of them in iron bark creek and in the drain sysytems.
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Post by Admin on Apr 22, 2012 19:00:43 GMT 11
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Post by velvetsicklid on Apr 23, 2012 2:02:10 GMT 11
Probably shouldnt rape the native population till you are a bit more advanced in fish keeping too mate.
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Post by renji on Apr 23, 2012 8:46:46 GMT 11
Ok Not enough tanks at the moment anyways
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Post by joelmennie on Apr 23, 2012 19:51:34 GMT 11
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Post by Admin on Apr 23, 2012 20:08:21 GMT 11
Seriously, there is no way in hell they could be trout, possibly Myxus petardi . I have some trout in a tank running a chiller unit 24hrs a day, lethal temp for trout is 24-26 degs and the water in those shallow creeks during summer would have killed them, they prefer water around 13degs. In the low 20's they get stressed and start to die.
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Post by joelmennie on Apr 23, 2012 20:26:03 GMT 11
No worries I'll try and catch some of the larger fish to see what they just down the road I can catch bass what's the lethal temp for them?
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Post by Admin on Apr 23, 2012 20:30:44 GMT 11
I dont doubt you can catch Bass or even estury perch (Im a fisherman and fish locally...alot) im not sure of lethal for them but i would think up around 30degs if there was enough oxy in the water.
If you do a search on trout streams of nsw, you will notice all are at altitude, most are snow fead and none exist within the eastern or western lowlands watershed as the water is just too hot. eg there are trout in the manning river, but not below the series of falls in barrington tops and thats at around 1000m.
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Post by moy on Apr 23, 2012 20:36:16 GMT 11
Shouldnt this thread be in general?
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Post by Admin on Apr 23, 2012 20:38:34 GMT 11
lol just picked that up.
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