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hhmmmm interesting.................

This quote taken from Wikipedia, appears that they will not breed with out hormone injection............

This is from the Vic DSE. I imagine being an endangered species obtaining any fingerlings would just about be impossible anyway.

Reproduction
Douglas et. al. (1994) considered that Trout Cod, like captive Murray Cod, formed pairs and spawned annually, usually in spring (September to November) and probably in response to increasing day-length and water temperature. Trout Cod breeding appears to be stimulated by a rise in water temperature to between 15°C and 20°C (G. Gooley PIRVic unpubl., in Koehn & O’Connor 1990). The fertilised eggs of Trout Cod are adhesive, demersal, opaque and 2.5-3.6 mm in diameter. The adhesive properties of the eggs suggest that a hard substrate might be preferred as an egg-laying site and it is speculated that typical egg-laying sites would include on or in logs, amongst rocks, or on hard clay surfaces (Cadwallader 1979; Koehn & O'Connor 1990). The fecundity of Trout Cod is not known, but 1,200-11,300 eggs have been stripped from individual hatchery broodfish (Ingram & Rimmer 1992). Hatching commences 5-10 days after fertilisation at 20°C, and is mostly completed 2-3 days later. Newly hatched larvae are 6.0-8.8 mm in length and begin feeding about 10 days after hatching.

Any one no were these trout cod come from

As troutman mentioned, being protected species they would probably be hard to get a hold of.
Although SP are also protected too

Don't want them , would just like to were there from. Are they Aus

Go back to Arbes post on the first page on this thread, yes they are a native fish

Ooh sorry. Aus is a big place.

Sleepy cod are a possible option... and fingerlings are available...

They are native and found in the same waters as the Murray Cod. Don't think they are found over in the west at all though.

Sleepy cod, I have seen as an option, I havn't looked into there characteristics compared to Murray Cod either though.
Any one have any info?

Thanks rupe and bndybear. Cool looking fish. Was just keen to no were in Aus. Never seen or heard of been caught before. I'm new thou and don't no much. Cheers again.

Not terribly fast growing... and certainly not that entertaining according to those that have stocked them... literally spend a lot of the time on the bottom of the tank... apprantly "sleeping"...

But Murray Hullam has stocked them in his systems in Brisbane for a few years... and got them to a fair size...

I'm not on his forum, and don't really want to be, what's a fair size, and a few years?
Has Murray run Murray Cod? how do they compare growth wise?

That's a bloody shame that you don't want to share forums.
I keep Sleepies as well.
Cheers IanK

Wouldnt it get too cold for sleepys down here. Dont think they would like tank temps below 10C
Murray wasnt all that impressed with the taste of them either from memory but maybe they were just beat up too much as to their table qualities.
I sort of know the fisheries dude here and might ask him about the trout cod