A beautiful fish, speak with synodontisjack as he is selling one at present,
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As regards to keeping them, well i have never kept but have read and know a few on another site that keep them,
Common Names=Barra, Silver Barramundi, Giant Perch, Palmer Perch.
grow Up to 1.8 m and 60 Kg ,
temperatures above 20°C. Shows a distinct preference for submerged logs, rock ledges and other structure in the water.
Barra are a catadromous species, that mean's is it grows to maturity in the upper reaches of freshwater rivers and streams and adults move downstream, especially during flooding, to estuaries and coastal waters for spawning
Barra are protoandrous hermaphrodites: they start life as males, reaching maturity at around 3 to 4 years of age and later change gender and become females, usually at around age 5. Small fish are almost exclusively male with the percentage of females increasing with overall length.
carnivore, feeding mainly on smaller fish as well as crustaceans. Juveniles take smaller fish fry, smaller crustaceans and aquatic insects.
They will take live or frozen bait fish, prawns and mussels. In contrast to the wild where Barramundi appear to be mainly nocturnal feeders, in aquaria, they will readily feed in daylight and become very tame.
To tank size your 6ft is just a grow out, it's going to need something along the line's of 10ft/12ft long by 5ft depth and length, these boy's grow huge, most people that keep these have a tropical pond,
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