Collecting & Spotlighting for Australian Native Aquarium Fish
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- Follow along as I set bait traps and spotlight at night, to collect Australian native rainbowfish. Learn some tricks along the way, as well as meet some interesting freshwater critters
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What a fantastic video. Keep up the great work.
Thanks Mathew
I love this hobby! My family think I’m a little nuts, but getting out and exploring, definitely beats watching the tv!
Great video! I'm glad I stumbled on your channel, it's good to see some fallow Aussies checking out their local waterways, a nice looking spot as well, look forward to seeing more of your videos, Thanks for sharing 🙂
Thanks A.B
I love your videos- I found them a little while back when I was big into my rainbows. I’ve just got to get used to the filming technology! How did you do your location maps? Google earth studio?
@@australianaquarist Thank you! but I'm not A.B I'm Jason Sulda, I did do a video with him and Nick recently though, the google map thing is pretty easy, you map your zoom in and screen shot record it, I'm the same a bit old school for all the new Tech. my self, a couple of younger friends are helping me at the moment with it, hopefully I might start doing some talk through videos like yours in the new year, your doing pretty good from what I can see, I enjoyed the video, I haven't got down to NSW so it is nice to see some of the habitat down that way.
Cheers Jason
A.B = Australian Biotopes!!
@@australianaquarist Hahaha ok, I had my mate AB in mind because I not long did a video with him, my bad 🙂
I grew up I’m planning on doing my first tank in a long time and my very first plated tank in the Spring. I want to create a canyon eco stems from the Sonoran desert in Arizona. There are canyon river ecosystems that remind me of your opening film…what a stunningly beautiful place! Sadly, many of the minnows who lived in those systems are endangered are extinct.
Really shouldn’t type this late, lol…I grew up in the Sonoran Desert…it’s my idea of heaven…
I just had to google the Sonoran Desert! Amazing images. Are there actually aquatic plants growing there?
Bread and veggie 💯 mate
Honestly i find white bread with Vegemite works the best for me when im after Rainbows and hardy heads. True blue Aussies i suppose
I’ve never used Vegemite! I’ll have to give it a go.
We do call them rainbow fish here in US. They are so gorgeous!
Haha I was down there tonight trying to catch bullrout 😂😂
I’ve caught one there before. Look along the sides of logs for the unusual bullrout shape. A good head torch is a must
Gotta say that I'm a bit jealous Adam, you can't see any fish in our river (Murray), let alone catch them with a net.
Yes
But you’ve got yabbies and carp!
Hey Adam great work.. may I ask are you getting your rhads in the orara or further up in the tributaries ? I have rhads but I got them a few hours north.. never seen them in the orara
The rhads are in the Orara, but mainly the smaller creeks out around Friday Creek and Dairyville. They seem to prefer the cool , forest creeks over the main river. The ones around here have the neon blue , but up around Wooli , they start to get the red in them. The best looking ones of course, are up on the Sunshine Coast!
I live in Grafton so alot of my collecting is around Coutts crossing. The rhads I do have are red. But looking for new variations. I'd love to try seary CK up sunshine coast but it's a no collection creek unfortunately
It’d make for some great snorkeling though
100% would be amazing
@@danielmcclymont1990 I've been up to searys, it's bloody incredible and there's millions of Rhads but it is always freezing, went there January this year and was shivering the entire way down. Lots of cool shrimp and the water is so much faster than it looks in the videos you see online
The problem is for people in Sydney, etc, is shops have stopped selling any interesting natives.
What sort of natives do you look out for? I occasionally look through Aquarium Industries list - they do have freshwater morays which interest me, otherwise the usual suspects. I’d like some Jungle Perch
@australianaquarist2342 I keep the big boys, and I know a few aquarium store owners around Sydney. They no longer are really interested in keeping the larger natives as it's not worth it financially, especially since roughly the start of COVID.
Do you know or know about Dave Wilson? He is the only person I would purchase smaller natives from. He is the godfather of natives.
Yep
I’ll look at getting some Pseudomugil cyanodorsalis and gobies down from him
@australianaquarist2342 Have you ever been to an ANGFA meeting?
Years ago I went to the conference in Port Macquarie and another at Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary.