baby mangrove jack

[Didley]

35cm and 5 bag limit Mick

[Mick Baker]

How can they be sold below this size for aquariums ?

[Micko]

35cm and 5 bag limit Mick

4 too many Imo.

[mangajack]

Yeah there is a minimum size.......don't know about how the aquarium business gets around size limits......it is in possession after all.
just coming into the time of the year to see lots of baby jacks around the rock bars well up the creeks almost into brackish water.

[Didley]

All jacks sold in the aquarium trade, have been bred for the purpose in aquaculture farms, supposedly!

[darylive]

Aquariums would have a permit. It seems like a good idea for a pet, I had two Barra in a tank; feeder fish were 12 for $10 those bastards had eaten hundreds of dollars in feeders before they went.

The tank was at work and I wasn't there when the bug man sprayed the place and obviously contaminated the water and killed 'em. Not happy.

[Didley]

I'm guessing the bugman is now fish food, never upset a man with a mustache.

[darylive]

I'm guessing the bugman is now fish food, never upset a man with a mustache.

'Guns don't kill people, people with moustaches kill people'

[spaded]

good work noted

[wayno1960]

Didley, your right on the money, Jacks were breed to be feeder fish for the barra in the dams at the DPI Facilities on Bribie Isl. Then they realized that there was a market for them in the Aquarium trade and that where a lot go. Big jacks spawn out on the reefs, the fry find their way back to the creeks and rivers and start life up the top of the rivers in the brackish water and as they grow work their way down to the mouth of river. that's why you will always catch jacks around the same size around the mouth of the river, up to say 60cm after that their off out to sea...