blueether Posted April 22, 2012 Report Share Posted April 22, 2012 Grey mullet fry? Caught in fresh water but less than 300m inland, 2-3m above high tide mark, the sane water had eels, inanga, giant bullies and koura Edit: only two have died, one on the trip home and the other before I went to bed, so there is hope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Posted April 22, 2012 Report Share Posted April 22, 2012 Smelt/cucumber fish would be not particularly educated guess. But yours look a bit bigger bodied than that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanmin4304 Posted April 22, 2012 Report Share Posted April 22, 2012 Smell them--very easy to tell--don't look right--can't smell from here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted April 22, 2012 Report Share Posted April 22, 2012 not smelt or yellow eyed mullet possibly grey by the shape a lot of bait fish are being chased inland by kahawai etc at the moment http://www.niwa.co.nz/our-science/freshwater/tools/fishatlas/species/grey_mullet The grey mullet is the second member of the Mugilidae (or mullet) family found in New Zealand. In common with the yelloweyed mullet, the grey mullet has two dorsal fins, the first being tall and with four obvious spines. They also have large, easily dislodged scales. Technically, the way to tell the two species apart relies on the presence of the thick fleshy adipose eyelid found on the grey mullet. However, grey mullets also lack the bright yellow eye found on the appropriately named yelloweyed mullet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueether Posted April 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 23, 2012 the grey mullet has two dorsal fins, the first being tall and with four obvious spines.Well they do look to have four obvious rays to the first dorsal fin so I guess I guessed right. I have a feeling that 8 mullet will out grow the ~55l tank that they are in at the moment. They are active little fish, the biggest is about 30mm, and look to be feeding by sieving the substrate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueether Posted April 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 23, 2012 This is the only image that I could find of Mugil cephalus fry, looks like what I have in my tank. From http://kimfish.com/14-115.htm I wonder if they will turnout to be a good algae eater in the aquarium once they settle in? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueether Posted April 25, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 One more has died, of fin rot by the looks - too much stress/damage Here is one feeding on diatoms etc on plants, has a touch of fin rot that hasn't got worse after adding salt to the tank. As you can see they are only the size of the WCMM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anthony law Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 i chatch heaps them at waihi. they will handel warm salt water...my clown trigger nibles on them.. :smln: 8) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueether Posted May 8, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 8, 2012 Just an update on how the mullet are doing, one has died today and another is very thin and I doubt will make it. These two are the only two (out of the 8 that survived the trip/new home/first 2 days/etc) that have not taken to eating algae tabs. They don't seem to like green algae but love brown algae (diatoms) and have taken to the algae tabs well and are mostly keeping weight on after loosing a fair bit in the first week or so. Now that they are eating well it will be interesting to see how fast they grow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueether Posted May 11, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 11, 2012 Video of fry feeding on a 1/4 algae tab, sorry about the white balance. Mods, this could be moved into freshwater or the native section. I posted in this section for an ID but it is a freshwater tank Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caper Posted May 12, 2012 Report Share Posted May 12, 2012 Great video! :thup: Like most fish, you'd think they were starving :nilly: Caper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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