We went for a small field trip to a place called the Narrows near the coast which is approximately 1 1/2 hrs from my house. On the way there where quite a few dry culvets and 3 creeks that still had water in them, so we stopped to see what sort of aquatic live we could see in them.
On the way to the Narrows
The biggest body of water was actually salty or quite brackish as it had some mangroves growing along the banks, all I did see where some Pacific Blue Eyes but there was bound to be plenty of other fish life there. It was also alive with sandflies so we didint stop for long and being croc country I was not eager to go wading about in water that was too deep to see clearly through.
At the Narrows itself at the boat ramp the water is fully salt with mudflats and mangroves galore, I did see a couple of mudskippers but the sandflies where vicious and I was more interested in sampling the much smaller fresh water creeks we had crossed on the way out.
This creek (sorry no idea if it even has a name) amazed me, it was packed full of Pacific Blue Eyes, Flyspeck Hardyheads, some variety of rainbow fish that I could not catch to identify, gudgeons and native glass shrimp. The creek also had some flow in it with fresh water flowing down stream. It appears I may have caught at least one rainbow fish that I am keeping my fingers crossed for actually being a Rhadinocentrus sp. There was also a lot of insect life in the form of water skaters and other water beetles busy scuttling about.
Another creek I stopped to look in had lots of plant life but I only saw a few blue eyes and rainbows, this creek was not running.
Upon getting home and transferring the fish and shrimp to a tank to better look at them and start acclimatising them to my local town water, most of the glass shrimp had gone a "stressed" blue very pretty but not likely to keep the beautiful colour once settled in my pond.
A stressed blue glass shrimp
Later I will try to get some decent photos of the Flyspecked Hardyheads, the little rainbow and the solitary gudgeon.
On the way to the Narrows
The biggest body of water was actually salty or quite brackish as it had some mangroves growing along the banks, all I did see where some Pacific Blue Eyes but there was bound to be plenty of other fish life there. It was also alive with sandflies so we didint stop for long and being croc country I was not eager to go wading about in water that was too deep to see clearly through.
At the Narrows itself at the boat ramp the water is fully salt with mudflats and mangroves galore, I did see a couple of mudskippers but the sandflies where vicious and I was more interested in sampling the much smaller fresh water creeks we had crossed on the way out.
This creek (sorry no idea if it even has a name) amazed me, it was packed full of Pacific Blue Eyes, Flyspeck Hardyheads, some variety of rainbow fish that I could not catch to identify, gudgeons and native glass shrimp. The creek also had some flow in it with fresh water flowing down stream. It appears I may have caught at least one rainbow fish that I am keeping my fingers crossed for actually being a Rhadinocentrus sp. There was also a lot of insect life in the form of water skaters and other water beetles busy scuttling about.
Another creek I stopped to look in had lots of plant life but I only saw a few blue eyes and rainbows, this creek was not running.
Upon getting home and transferring the fish and shrimp to a tank to better look at them and start acclimatising them to my local town water, most of the glass shrimp had gone a "stressed" blue very pretty but not likely to keep the beautiful colour once settled in my pond.
A stressed blue glass shrimp
Later I will try to get some decent photos of the Flyspecked Hardyheads, the little rainbow and the solitary gudgeon.
