Aussie natives Stocking.

[amehel0]

Well the term did originate in America in the 1700's. I'd say thats plenty of time for it to be adopted by us and not considered an americanism. Unless used in the "raise your hands holla holla I'm a baller what what" way.

Anyway back to fish, Alex your purple yurples (brisbamerican speak for purple anythings) will be M. adspersa based on distribution. Don't rely entirely on scale counts if they come from around Cairns though, one of my lecturers did his pHD on them amongst other things(M. splendida complex and Caridina zebra) and found in northern populations of M. adspersa and M. mogurnda there is a wide gradient for physical identifiers like scale counts with some populations being outside the norm of both species but morphologically more similar to M. adspersa. Genetic analysis revealed they were in fact more closely related to M. mogurnda which throws a spanner in the works (possible new Mogurnda species? Complex form?)

yeh i thoguht it would be mogrunda adspersa based on rrnage. but cameron was adament they were almost extinct so i did a scale count as well.

 

[aussiemonsters]

Crazy brisbane yuppies, lol. I know bass are considered slow growers, but how slow are we talking, does anyone have rough estimates?

they grow to 20 to 30 cm first year then slow down.
I have some 1989 fish in a 1.2 hectare dam they are 53 cm.
the same fish in the big 3 dams if you can find one are over 60cm
in the noosa river 20 year old fish may be only 38 cm
The longest time out for a tagged noosa river bass is over 13 years it only grew 4cm 34cm to 38cm
but one tagged in somerset and recaptured in wivenhoe 11+ years later grew 38cm to 49 cm
the largest oldest fish aged by otilith in north pine dam 56cm 16 years.

Regs Steve

 

[masone]

Crazy brisbane yuppies, lol.

Haha I wish I had the $$$ to consider myself a yuppy. Still claiming broke ass uni student status at the moment.

 

[Eric A]

Saw some peeps down at the local lake on the way to school this morning trying to catch red eared sliders. I asked if they were in here, but they weren't sure, this was the first time checking here. I sure hope not, I hate the ferals, actually I hate all feral animals.

They say they catch heaps of native turtles, but I wanted to see if they would catch any eels, but I was still in school when they left. I hope they are back there tommorrow so I can have a longer chat with them.

All the fishos here, where can you catch small shovelnose RAYS around north brisbane? I know we can catch smaller wobbies up at the sunshine coast.

 

[aussiemonsters]

Saw some peeps down at the local lake on the way to school this morning trying to catch red eared sliders. I asked if they were in here, but they weren't sure, this was the first time checking here. I sure hope not, I hate the ferals, actually I hate all feral animals.

They say they catch heaps of native turtles, but I wanted to see if they would catch any eels, but I was still in school when they left. I hope they are back there tommorrow so I can have a longer chat with them.

All the fishos here, where can you catch small shovelnose RAYS around north brisbane? I know we can catch smaller wobbies up at the sunshine coast.

We had a lot of red eared sliders around Pine Rivers north of brisbane Eric the council pest management netted heaps of them out of lots of dams now they have a sniffer dog to find yhem it can tell the diff between red ears and natives . Why do you want shovelnose rays?

Regs Steve

 

[syndicate]

Haha I wish I had the $$$ to consider myself a yuppy. Still claiming broke ass uni student status at the moment.

yuppie u went to uni

 

[aussiemonsters]

Crazy brisbane yuppies, lol. I know bass are considered slow growers, but how slow are we talking, does anyone have rough estimates?

Here you go dingoofus do I look like a yuppie ?
This wild Bass is probably over 20 years old .

Regs Steve

 

[syndicate]

^^ id say bogan lol

 

[aussiemonsters]

yeh it was to hot for the flanno though

 

[Eric A]

We had a lot of red eared sliders around Pine Rivers north of brisbane Eric the council pest management netted heaps of them out of lots of dams now they have a sniffer dog to find yhem it can tell the diff between red ears and natives . Why do you want shovelnose rays?

Regs Steve

It was in Narangba. God I hate those things, majorly.

Was just curious about the rays. Saw one at my LFS ages ago, thought i'd see if we can catch them around here at that size (35-45cm). Would be a hell of a lot cheaper.

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