Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

Here in Aus ... most pets (where legal) are wild type... sourced from rivers where they have gone feral. Most stock are very inbred but seem to be generally very healthy.

I think we had a gold version once, but no reds, or pink varieties of mozambiques.

I am amazed at the ability of males to rapidly change colour ... black with red tails to silver when disturbed.

A beautiful robust fish!

Aqua, be careful of the law and getting local fish from water ways... not sure sith guppies...

But id prefer to source my guppy stock from a shop.. that way I can pick colours etc...

Aquamad should be getting local rainbowfish from the creeks around Cairns. Unless the stream is protected, it is legal in Qld to collect rainbows from creeks

Rainbows will breed readily come summer, about November

Mc , you could increase your breeding capabilities with females from the wild - they are robust and disease resistant already... as soon as you chuck a few well coloured males they will soon bring out all the colours in the next generation of fish...


I already have about 25 to 30 eastern rainbows in a tank here... but they do better in deeper water. Council breeds them here and releases them into the local streams and we got some from council before the big release

yeah outcrossing is important, i havent bred/inbred enough generations to need that yet, but prob will eventually
The line i am currently working on, the males have a deep solid blue (some are a greener coppery blue) with red flowing tails. I got my breeder guppies from a couple of diff fish shops, so although majority of the drop are the colour morph im working on they dont breed true (got a pink and red spotted buppy, and a green snakeskin with red tail as drops, which i want to try and fix when i get more room)

Hmmm, who would transport live fish for us? i looked into Aus post a while ago, but they dont (or didn't back then)

you could courier them from airport to airport... Not too sure on cost, would imagine it would cost a bit

tehre are even strict laws regading native rainbows, you're not meant to translocate so that the distinct genetic strains don't intermix. even when ordering from a supplier you should get the ones "correct" for the area.

Might try asking livefish who they use

D, I think they use Australian Air Express if memory serves me right....

Thanks Tim,
looks like the one

and the boxes have lots of handy stickers and stamps on them

and can afterwards be used as floating beds!

And even experimental GB's...

or be destroyed by the children and end up in tiny pieces strewn around the yard

or by chooks who feel the need for some fiber