Murray cod

[m-codrule]

here are some pics of my murray cod-coddly, he is relatively small at 31cm's i have had him since he was realy small and he is just over a year old now enjoy

 

[hardb0iled]

Cool, great fish m-codrule!

A friend sent me some pics of his ~40cm Murray Cod. They arent the greatest pics but you get the idea, here's a couple:

 

[m-codrule]

cool cod , what does he get fed?

 

[Capo]

Hey those cod are awesome!!!! So envious right now!
I love it, that 40cm cod is starting to look cool because its getting a high back now, the big fatto fish
Ahhh, cant wait to get one again, how big are the tanks those 2 cod are in?!?!
Again, awesome fish! congratulations!

 

[hardb0iled]

Yeah, he is getting to that size where they start to actually look like fully grown MC. I cant wait for mine to get to that size! A few months to go yet.

I feed my MC on white bait and beef heart at the moment. The large one in the pics above is now being fed on white bait after I told the owner how much my MC loved them but before that I am not sure what he got fed. I dont know the owner that well, just via email because I posted these pics of his fish up for him.

I think the tank size for the one pictured above is 4'x2'x2'? hopefully the owner will join up here and provide a little more info. My tank size is currently 4x2x2 but I have on order a 6x2x2 which I'll be housing mine in. After he outgrows that I'm not sure what I'll do, maybe time to build a plywood monster tank by that stage?

 

[m-codrule]

my cod is in a 6x2x2 and eats shrimp pellets, beef heart and live food occassonally

 

[ashdavid]

I got my cod at 4" and it has been nearly 4 months and he would be lucky to be 4 1/2" right now. He absolutly will not take dead foods and will only eat certain live fish.

 

[deedevotee]

M-codrule, as hardbOiled said now I've gotten him onto whitebait but before the beginning of this week he was eating only live bronze comets. Amusing but expensive.
I did an experiment yesterday and he actually took the whitebait before the live feeder! (However, I must admit the feeder was hiding for his live in a very good spot. He didn't swim around too much either! I can't understand that?)
Capo, my cod is in a 4x2x2 the same as hardbOiled's. After he outgrows that I'm planning to put him in a heated, deep garden pond with a waterfall! I've just got to learn how to build them. My research has already begun.
ashdavid, he will. I highly reccomend whitebait when he gets a bit bigger!!! Maybe you could just chop them up a bit?

 

[m-codrule]

i once gave my cod white bait and he ate it in less than a second

 

[ashdavid]

ashdavid, he will. I highly reccomend whitebait when he gets a bit bigger!!! Maybe you could just chop them up a bit?

There has never been a fish that I could not get to eat pellets or dead foods,ranging from asian arowanas to leaf fish(leaf are generally one of the hardest fish to get to take live foods) but this fish is different. I did not feed him live foods for almost 2 months, and in that time he refused to eat any kind of dead food, and I have tried everything,the only reason why he didn't die is b/c I gave up. Also he will not eat his feeders in front of me, he will wait until I get out of the room. This is one stubborn fish.