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Despite it being claimed that Inanga wont escape, they will! They are very good at leaping from the water. Hence, I am looking to replace one that leapt from my pond. Jansen told me the only native fish supplier has shut shop.

For anyone considering inanga for an outside pond, apart from being difficult to see, they seem to handle it pretty well and get on fine with gold fish, Minnows and barbs. Best of all, they have 'attitude'.

Please let me know if you are in Auckland and have a spare!

Cheers

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Hi Aquaman,

Am interested to know how your inanga jumped.... It is a raised pond and it jumped out over the edge?

Sometimes at the stream I like to go spotlighting for native fish in you hear splashes from the inanga. I am never really sure what they are doing, and I haven't seen one leap but they do hit the surface a lot.

If it was a straight-sided pond, or similarly steep, I could imagine one throwing a fit, zipping all over the pond, shooting up the side and accidentally finding itself on the wrong side.

Stella

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Hi Hans,

Are you telling me you haven't been spotlighting yet??? It is so fun. Pick a small stream with good tree cover and marginal vegetation, take your strongest torch and most leak-proof gummies and go hunting! :)

Am happy to show you my tanks and/or take you spotlighting if you want to come down this way some time. I know where to find uplands, redfins, Cran's, commons, inanga and of course crays.

So why are you changing the plants and gravel?

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I have a infestation of a long haired algae :(

Plants are covered in it and it looks yuck

Plants are doing fine, but yeh

Going to base my new set up on yours

Sadly i cant go spot lighting as my health is not the best at the moment

Stuffed back = no fun

Maybe in a month or so :D

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I have a infestation of a long haired algae :( Plants are covered in it and it looks yuck

Ah. It very much depends on the type, but I have come to accept algae into my life ;) At the very least, a liberal sprinkling of non-invasive algaes on the stones help it look more established and natural. And it makes cleaning easier!

I have a nice long hair algae that is encouraged in my tank. Not on the glass, but definitely on the rocks. It anchors really firmly and seems to resist other algaes. It forms lovely flowing carpets on the bigger rocks and I clean and 'trim' it by stroking it in one direction with a piece of soft cloth. I don't have a good photo up yet, but there is some in the background of this photo http://picasaweb.google.com/nznativefis ... 8665406482

(I am changing and enlarging my native fish galleries :)

Going to base my new set up on yours

Cool, am very flattered :)

Maybe in a month or so :D

Sounds good :bounce:

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Hey all

Thanks for your replies. I will try the store in Albany, or maybe find my gumboots and torch.

Stella, I moved house, and hence ponds. The new pond has a waterfall and when I ran it, everything tried to get upstream. Even the goldfish. I guess my Inanga was better at jumping than the rest, but misjudged his leap!

I have also witnessed Inanga jumping clear of the water to catch bugs hovering over the surface of the pond. Maybe that is what the ones you hear are doing?

Cheers

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Hi AquaMan,

Interesting about the jumping, especially that you have seen them actively taking bugs by jumping clear! I have only ever really seen (wild) ones picking insects from the surface and never been looking in the right direction at the right time at night when I have heard the splashes.

Inanga are supposed to be the worst climbers of the galaxiids, definite 'must go upstream NOW!' instinct, but are supposed to be hampered by fairly short drops. Would be interested to see a photo of your waterfall and how high they were getting! :)

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Despite it being claimed that Inanga wont escape, they will! They are very good at leaping from the water. Hence, I am looking to replace one that leapt from my pond. Jansen told me the only native fish supplier has shut shop.

For anyone considering inanga for an outside pond, apart from being difficult to see, they seem to handle it pretty well and get on fine with gold fish, Minnows and barbs. Best of all, they have 'attitude'.

Please let me know if you are in Auckland and have a spare!

Cheers

try the stream under little huia dam in west auckland, also get koaro and banded kokopu there, but would not try either of those in your pond.

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