Aussie natives Stocking.

[Cammo X]

Very cool rare fish? May i ask what? better be some Zebra Plecs!

Cam

 

[Eric A]

I am sworn to secrecy mate, if i told you I would have to kill you, and because i can't kill you i can't tell you.

 

[masone]

Wait, a week ago you were too poor to afford a freshwater moray or gold tandanus and this week you are getting multiple "very cool and rare" fish? And next few months to a year? I'm assuming they are hoping to breed them here and you are waiting on juvies cos no one I know will hold a fish for that long or can guarantee they will be able to "import" it over that sort of time frame. Would be interesed to know what these fish are, high bioload that requires that sort of filtration indicates they are some top end pred?

 

[aussiemonsters]

Hey guys have cycled my 8x2x2 and currently have 2 x 20cm barra and 2 x 10cm salmon tail cats Trying to find a few peices of drift wood, archer fish, sleepy cod and either a murray cod, short finned eel or some type of perch. Any suggestions and advise will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks ben.

Your Barra will pretty much outgrow/kill/eat anything you put in with them unless the fish are much larger than your barra .

 

[aussiemonsters]

hey guys

i have 1x murray cod 1x barra

both will only eat live food please please private msg me with info on these fish i have never had natives before i also have a thread called how do i look after a barra and murray cod the guy at the aquairum shop is a idiot/novice told me there exact same as having tropical fish told me to have my heater on 29 ....... when recommended is 26c but ive also been told off a freind that highest u should go with a cod is around 23c

also read somewhere that u should add a bit of salt to your water but never said how much per ltr

also need info on seting up a bath tub as a quarintine breeding tank for swordtails/rainbowfish/fantail feeders i catch roughly 2000 in 15 to 20 mins in a waterway near me not 2000 of each all mixed useing a crayfish nets

i want to keep these fish for a long time and have them very healthy
is it ok just to feed live food or will they lack nutrition how can i get them eating pellets tryed diffrant brands and size sinking and floating even tryed not feeding them anything for 1 week then puting pellets in with no luck so i gave up

any help would be great and much appreciated since i live around aquarium places that employ imcompitant idiots

How big are the cod and barra ?
Feed your feeders as much as they can eat add some shrimps and crays
and anything you can get variety in a live diet is the go.
Good luck getting the cod off live the barra will eat pellets eventually but hard to do with them together.

 

[aussiemonsters]

That's the Plan .

Thinking of a green and silver to add to that mix.

Hopefully some turn up that are small enough to add to them, and they can growup together.

Thought you were going to to try the 3x Lei + Green + Silver comm Eric.
What are these mystery fish ? are they legal

 

[Eric A]

You shall all see guys... This maybe a big pulling of strings, hence why i'm not saying too much, but i hope it's not, just hope this dude pulls through.

 

[masone]

Well if you will be posting it up here I will assume the fish are not noxious in which case my top choices for a pred tank are knocked out. Good luck with it, I'm guessing SA cats of some sort, limas etc.

 

[syndicate]

morning masone

 

[Dudzy]

hey guys

i have 1x murray cod 1x barra

both will only eat live food please please private msg me with info on these fish i have never had natives before i also have a thread called how do i look after a barra and murray cod the guy at the aquairum shop is a idiot/novice told me there exact same as having tropical fish told me to have my heater on 29 ....... when recommended is 26c but ive also been told off a freind that highest u should go with a cod is around 23c

also read somewhere that u should add a bit of salt to your water but never said how much per ltr

also need info on seting up a bath tub as a quarintine breeding tank for swordtails/rainbowfish/fantail feeders i catch roughly 2000 in 15 to 20 mins in a waterway near me not 2000 of each all mixed useing a crayfish nets

i want to keep these fish for a long time and have them very healthy
is it ok just to feed live food or will they lack nutrition how can i get them eating pellets tryed diffrant brands and size sinking and floating even tryed not feeding them anything for 1 week then puting pellets in with no luck so i gave up

any help would be great and much appreciated since i live around aquarium places that employ imcompitant idiots

Wouldn't recommend keeping the fish together for every long; Barra are very placid compared to Murray cod.
Usually you can starve them for a week or two and they will take pellets... but! you can slowly trick them into eating pellets by dropping feeder fish on the surface of the water, once they get the hang of grabbing them straight away you can drop a pellet ever now and then.
My old Cod lived in water that got upto 28c in summer.... but he was over 2foot so I don't know if the difference in size affects the water temps they can handle.

P.s. Barra grow faster then you know what, so be careful and plan ahead.