Re: [RML] weather and Melbourne

Bruce Hansen (bhansen at ozemail.com.au)
Mon, 10 Feb 1997 07:42:50 +1100

From: peter.unmack at ASU.Edu
To: rainbowfish <rainbowfish at pcug.org.au>
Subject: [RML] weather and Melbourne
Date: Monday, 10 February 1997 7:45
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Since I am on about heat how about a little fish trivia. What is the
hottest temperature that any fish has been found at in Australia and in
the world? And no, it is not that sicklid in Africa (T. grahami or what
ever it is called these days [subspecies I think]). I know what the
answer is, I just want to see what other people thing it is. :-)>>

Peter is entering a new phase - Quizmaster!

FWIW the hottest I have seen a fish here in OZ was a Coral trout that I had
in my oven over the weekend at around 350 F.

Perhaps you mean Freshwater and living/functioning when you posed the
"found" question Peter ?

There have been reports of Spangled Grunters (and Mogurndas too I think)
coming out of almost boiling bores but they were "cooked" and the
suggestion was that they were sucked in from nearby streams by the boring
process.

>From memory Dalhousie Springs Hardy heads must come into reckoning for
their habit of rushing in and out of extremely hot areas of the springs
complex.

The details of the exact temperatures escapes me.

Bruce Hansen