now I don't no how much truth is in that but I did hear it on more than 1 occasion and it would explain why so many Barra would of been released into there by the fisheries and wildlife and why the Barra seems to of established itself so well.... Has anyone ever heard of this or has anyone ever caught non native species there before?..... just out of curiosity of course and I surely don't condone such activity's but interested non the less. Rockhunter62 said:I'm sure that the barra will clean out the other introduced tropical fish in the pond. May the biggest fish win.
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Sorry forgot all about this topic but yeah there is plenty of cichlids plus tilapia in the pondage. Plus a few species of Africans cichlids as well. I used to keep Africans and used to go there to collect the young fish to feed my electric blues. Also got a couple of Red Devils out of there and had em in a tank for a few years.been plenty of barra landed of late but haven't been there yet myself. I think that might be where scroungers gone to :/greencheeks77 said:About 18 years ago I was into breeding tropical fish and was told by an old German bloke that owned a Melbourne Aquarium shop that used to import Cichlids into Australia and many other types of fish that people released a fair few non natives into Hazelwood pondage because certain people were getting tired of import cost and waiting for the lengthy quarantine time that is involved before being allowed to sell them over to the public as the water temp was perfect for them and was told if I ever really wanted a good sized American Cichlids for breeding purposes then I should go there and try my luck not that I ever did
B5MECH said:I missed it but IFISH were barra fishing there this evening
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