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This should be in the native section, maybe a mod could move it? Anyway tank envy :env: With a tank that size I think it would be much more dramatic and interesting to go full out with kokopu, inanga and bullies e.t.c... (if you can keep it cold) But if you went with the boring option ( ) you could probably have 20-30 bullies (I think) just make sure there are lots of hiding places (bullies are active but as they get bigger and more territorial they need their space....) Also if you take a large number of natives take small numbers of young specimens from multiple healthy populations..... And large numbers of natives (as with all fish) need large amounts of food, so make sure you can keep up with their intake. Hope I helped, have fun.

Eternal

Welcome, I hope you enjoy your time on the forum.

A bit :smot: But went to a local lake today and there were heaps of dead bullies (in about a 30m stretch of shore there would have been 40+ bodies) I'm assuming it was temperature related due to the fact that the gambusia are still thriving. Also no dead juvenile bullies (nothing below 40mm) are they more tolerent of water temp and/or low O2 levels?

If it was day most likely to be trout or inanga, smelt dont seem to be as active at day as inanga.

You'll be surprised by the size of food that they'll eat, a whitebait that has been in fresh water for a couple of weeks could easily eat full size larvae. Bigger fish are more likely to miss small foods.

Lol, cool.

When i was at the trout centre it was: *little girl runs up to pest fish tank* "Mum, are these kiwi fish too?" The mum didnt know :facepalm:

Cool! I currently have a couple of month old pekin ducklings and theyre already as big as my adult mallard domestic crosses.... Did you incubate your quail or buy chicks?

Lol, my photo skills with a phone are pathetic and our computer cant read my digital camera, sorry.

Bluegills and giants probably, but havent heard of anyone being successfull. Uplands can.

You might want to try feeding them at dusk when they have come out but you can still see, if one starts eating theyll both start going for it. I got the wild fish in our drains eating after about 5 minutes. But yes the torch will probably be putting them off. And as livingart said :fshi: :ske:

Sorry no one has replied yet edit is good but it doesnt let people know that there's a new post. Natives are fussy so they probably won't accept commercial foods (it varies from fish to fish inanga seem to accept it more easily than kokopu and bullies) heart is a good staple diet so just mix it up a bit with live food and raw shrimp, that will be a better diet than commercial foods (unless you buy an expensive high protein good quality feed, which they may not acceot anyway)

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I knew I asked about it! I think it was after visiting the trout centre.....

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"Research"

Cute! :nfs:

It is posaible to get a permit for pest animals (and plants?) but it must be for educational purposes (Displays that raise public awareness of the damage they cause or research purposes....)

The problem is there isnt really anything we can do about it, people involved in things like that either know and dont care or they dont know and they dont want to know. I dont understand why its legal to do that sort of thing, imagine the uproar if people started stabbing kiwis to death with sharp pointy sticks! :an!gry

Cool! :thup:

Um, i think it was the edge?

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For food yes they can eat commercial foods but high protein and high quality is best. A better diet is bugs, heart from the supermarket or butcher and raw shrimp/prawns. Sexing for redfins is easy the males are red, the others are harder, females are usually pale and mature males have a coloured band on the first dorsal. Bluegills like high flow and are easily outcompeted so best to be kept in a species tank. As with all natives cold water is the key. Breeding with bluegills giants and redfins has not been acheived (to my knowledge) EDIT: actually blueether might have succeeded?

Not the one i was talking about but here is a similar comp http://www.google.co.nz/url?sa=t&source ... i3iHNMFXtg