Thanks for the photos nico. Can you post them here for all to see? They will certainly go into the next magazine along with the fantastic article that I am sure is currently being written by someone who went on the hunt :lol:

Not sure how to add, as the pictures are on my c: drive not a website

OK. I will send them to Pegasus and ask him to do it for us.

Glad everyone enjoyed themsleves .

As mentioned i got right in amongust it but it was worth it .

Cat did the small golden molly survie that i caught for you . I hope so as i have never seen the gold sailfins there before . I will be interesting what it turns out like .

There were plenty of mollys and some really impressive males that showed some really good colour as the sun hit them ,

We had a look at the thermal stream at the motel yep there are mollies there too but mainly small fry .

Both tours were worth while and the upgrade of the vistors centre at the trout hatchery is well worth looking at .

I hope that everyone had a safe trip home and the mollies traveled well . I have put mine in one of my ponds with other livebearers they seem happy.

Nico i would love to see the photos kevin email some to me . By my own addmissions i must be nutty !!!! but it surely is fun.

I will write an article for the AW .

Aren't sure when i will do it agian but will think about it . Would be really interested in hearing about any other populations of wild tropical fish in Nz . I know where the guppies are , there use to be swordtails but you just never know .

Hi Dave

Yes the little gold molly is still alive. Very pretty colour. Hopefully it will survive and grow to be a nice individual. I will let you know how it goes.

It was a most enjoyable weekend and a BIG thankyou to Dave for all his hard work at organising it. Hopefully we will get to do it again before they sell the land and drain the swamp!

http://www.fnzas.org.nz/492.0.html

what kind of catfish were you after

Thanks Cees. I have asked Kevin to send you any pics he may have too.

The site above, posted by Cees, is the pictures Nico sent me from the Molly Hunt.

I'm not sure,

BUT,

I think the catfish you were after,

are

illegal to keep,

sell or give away,

breed,

put into any open river,

lake

or pond,

or aything else,

that could upset the biodiversity of NZ.

If you catch them,

you cannot release them back to their environment.

But ya can kill and eat 'em.

Alan

On the sunday afternnon before we all headed home a few of us went down to the Wharf at the entrance of the Tokkanu tailrace and try our hand at catching those pest to our natural waterways the Bullhead Catfish .

Unfortanley we didn't catch any and if we did they would have been destroyed imediatlely althought some say they are good eating .

Ummmmm theres a thought ??

A few more photos added (Thanks Kevin)

http://www.fnzas.org.nz/492.0.html

just added a few more photos

If anyone else has photos from the Molly Hunt, please send them to Cees for inclusion in the gallery.

If anyone else has photos from the Molly Hunt, please send them to Cees for inclusion in the gallery.

I just added a few more photos thanks to Kevin.

If you send me photos please send them as 480x360 jpg (high compression). Saves me 5 minutes converting them.

Cees

p.s.

Send me a Mbyte size photo and you will get on my blacklist (kevin, you're still ok )

How is everyone's Mollies doing? Mine are fine. I lost 3 to start with but now they've settled in. They grow really fast! There are a couple of really fat females, - maybe babies soon...

Our mollies are doing fine. Havent lost any. As our ones were only little juveniles I am not expecting babies for a while yet. They are almost in 'our' water yet with one more change tonight it will just about be 100% changed. I do like the paler colour of them (almost pearly in some). Nice effect under lights. We are really pleased with them and would like to go and get some more!

I have lost one, died within the 1st day or so (I think) the others (three) are making themselves right at home now.

Nico .. if you want any let me know. We ended up with 29 of them so I can always spare you some. :lol:

Hi everyone

Mine are out in the pond think i ended up with 20ish . I have a mix of 50/50 males and females and i do expect them to breed .

They are doing okay haven't noticed any bodies and they must of really enjoyed the huge downpour we had here in the waikato on thrusday . We had locals kayaking down streets in hamilton east .

Anyway in about a month i might try and cross breed some wild mollies with imported stock just to see what i could end up with

BTW thanks for the photos they will always bring a smile to my face !!!

Wouldn't they actually be feral mollies, not wild?

Correct Ira,

but!!!

they were wild when they were caught

Alan

Yeah, you're right Alan, mine weren’t too happy about being caught...

They weren't at the local pet store !!!!!!!!!!!

I have baby molly's. There's about 40 of them. There's another famale just about ready too. Cool... 8)

Cool Warren .... congrats!