Re: [RML] Designer Fish
David Wilson (rwilson at taunet.net.au)
Wed, 11 Nov 1998 17:38:12 +0900
>Hi All, just after a few ideas. I have a couple of tanks I am thinking of
>setting up without heaters here in Canberra (for those of you in North
>America, Canberra is the Capital City of Australia, not Sydney or Qantas ;)
>). A 1200mm x 600mm x 600mm (4' x 2' x 2') and a 900mm (3') "standard".
>
>Does anyone know of an Australian native fish (aside from Damnbusia) that
>will be happy in 12-16 degrees C water for most of the year yet survive
>occasional bouts of 25-30 degrees C in the worst of summer, and an
>occasional dip to maybe 8 degrees C overnight in winter? It gets both
>hotter and colder here than these extremes outside, but we tend to keep the
>house reasonably liveable for ourselves. I'm not sure that a beast that
>would thrive under these conditions exists.
>
Andrew,
you should do a habitat tank with the forage fishes from Currembene
Creek near where it crosses the Princess Highway. Keep a small bullrout
and a juvenile bass in the smaller tank as a spare fish disposal unit. I
am sure you could find someone there in Canberra to go with you. Some
species that come to mind in that creek are jollytails, pacific blue eyes,
juvenile grayling, eels, dwarf flathead gudgeons, cox gudgeon, carp gudgeon
and probably some others that I have forgotten as it has been more than a
dozen years since I was in that creek.
Dave Wilson