Backyard Aquaponics
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I've got goldfish and silver perch together without problems too.

I bought my first lot of silvers from an aquarium shop that was selling them as feeder fish. Most of them died because they were rooted. Those that survived are destined to always be very small. Some are still the size of largish fingerlings, yet my Jade perch that were bought a couple of months later are 500gms. Needless to say - I will not be buying these again. Once damaged by ammonia poisoning - they will never be any good.

mmmm, gills dont recover.

i know i'e asked you this before, but did the clowns survive?

Clownies survived. That was the Ich outbreak. It didn't come from the feeders, it came from the farm bought Jades which are now my pan sized fish.

Is there any chance someone could get me a pic of a young silver perch? I've found at least 4 separate fish that all look like my little guys. Just wanted a pic to compare em to LOL

Not real flash. Always had trouble getting a decent picture when they were small. They were bloody shy.

Do they have stripes? theres something different about the mouths to, I dunno LOL, but the mouths in my two seems to eb a different shape...

Yours look a bit like Jades - but without the spots. Do any of them have a spot or 2. See the jade colouring in yours?

Mine dont ahve spots, stroipes nothing their just plain silver and gold fish.

Some better pics
The silver one


The gold one

I still think they are silvers

nah, slightly wrong shape, but not jades either

Man I would love going to that store and getting bargain mis-priced fish

But on the fish, it has a very simmilar morphology to silver perch, but i cant be definate that they are sp based on their morphology alone. What are they eating? juvenile wild sp are predominatary carnivirous....and capitve bred juvenile sp seem to have a tendancy to preffer high protien feed ( well mine do, they hammer pellets but just grase duckweed).

But my guess is that they are silver perch (just with slightly different genetics, but i have a right to change my guess ) But then the fish in the bottom pic does seem to have an unusually large eyes for a sp......

feed em up and we'll look again in a month

LOl that might be a bit hard. They wont eat. Not even frozen bloodworm's. As soon as I go near the tank they disappear behind the filter and don't come close to any of the food I've put in. They nay eat it after it sinks to the bottom, but thats a very big may. I know they don't eat Java moss if that helps, I can put elodea in to to see if they like that LOL.

Is it possible for perch to crossbreed? everyone agrees its some sort of native perch, but all the people I've spoken to ahve different opinions as to which perch, since these guys don't match up with any of them.

Hmmm I think their was another one of these at the store with a slightly greenish tinge, maybe I should go harass a shop attendant to get it out for me. It took them a good half hour for them to fish these two out of the tank LOL.

I'll go for spangled perch. The ones I had didn't have strong markings like this one. --

http://www.nativefish.asn.au/photos/spangledperch.jpg