mangrove jack eating

[Nico.d.R]

here is a quick vid of my jack having a feeder fish.
cheers nico
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg03MGW-Jjk

[Nico.d.R]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBnx2j2RhFA

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[Benno1]

the jack taking the feeder fish sounded like someone hitting a ping pong ball!!! NNNIIIIICE!!!
cheers for the vid Nico:D

Mrs Benno1
Sunny

[Didley]

Neat Nico, how long U had him, he's only a little tacker.;D

Dids

[Nico.d.R]

i will get a longer better vid when i get some more feeders and a disc for the propper camera , he has only been pellet fed untill i got him , so he is just starting to hit them real hard now .

cheers nico

[Nico.d.R]

3 weeks ago dids , he is about 5cm . i was gonna tell ya but i thought id wait till the m&g .

cheers nico

[o bag]

Nico, have you got him in fully fresh?

[themissus]

I want one!! You can see why they have so many lures in their pool room...geez they're quick!
Cheers Kim.

[Nico.d.R]

yeah its fresh water , i got him from the shop and they get them from the dpi who breeds them . he is defenantly entertaining to watch .
cheers nico

[natho]

frisky little fella!. i got a small jack 6 months ago now he,s now about 10cm great fish got him in with a barra about 25 cm .try him on baby shrimp or baby white pillies mine loves em

[Nico.d.R]

hey natho how big was your jack when you got him ? i have a barra too thats about 20-25 cm aswell but i put him in the big tank , just incase he ate the jack for dinner . was your jack and barra the same size when you put them in ?

cheers nico

[o bag]

alot of them now have microchips in them, to stop all the illegal selling of them, when mine was your size, i was buying the big protein pellets from the aquarium, like the ones up at barra farm, crush them up into little bits and he loved them and still does...but now he finds them hard to swallow becuase he knocked out his canines smashing a poddy against the glass

[Didley]

Microchips, well 20cm fish, they'd want to be "micro" to fit. Then U'd have "fish and chips" ;D. I've gota get me one of these, it sounds great. I reckon I should get a very big tank though, so he grows BIG.

[natho]

my jack was about 5 cm when i got him paid $110. he was by himself for a month , the barra was about 15 cm when i put him in. so yeah jack is boss. im goin to put the barra in my 3ft tank soon

[Nico.d.R]

so they want to micro chip they wild jacks or the dpi bred jacks ?

i also considerd catching a legal jack and converting it , the only problem is i never catch any jack lol . you would need a big tank to try and have a wild caught legal size jack in so i didnt kill it self smashing into the glass .

i have a 5ft tank that he will go in , i dont trust the floor where i want it so its in the shed at the moment , i might support the floor from under the house and bring it up stairs but until than he will have to stay where he is so i can see him .

cheers nico

[natho]

I think it would stress a wild fish to go in to a tank thats why i got a small one he is starting to get an "attitude "now he will bite me if i move his cave and bites at my fingers against the glass .A wild fish would take along time to tame and it would need live food ,when it gets over the stress of being pulled out of a river!. Jacks are not hard too find in shops they may be expensive .But if u ask me are worth every dollar

[Nico.d.R]

here's another vid of jack nailing 9 feeders
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cheers nico

[Nico.d.R]

natho , he has attitude already i put 2 mullet in there that are twice his size and he is trying to eat them pretty funny to watch i also put a few with my barra and he tried to eat one that was the same size as him , he got the head in his mouth and then spat him out .

cheers nico

[natho]

nico ,did he kill the mullet ?my jack likes the heads of em . barra seem to eat just about anything that moves even a finger .Im beefing my barra up on on herring chunks at the moment he loves em.I'll try to get a video on here of my old jack that was about 20cm eatin a large feeder gold fish .had to sell him when i moved and he needed a bigger tank too ,I was not too happy about that .u'll have too watch because he is quick as u know!!

[natho]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyQQE89eqXI this is what you will have in a few years time Nico!!

[Nico.d.R]

i carnt wait till its that big , the jack is still trying to eat the mullet and the barra killed about 10 last night but didnt eat them . i have some baby mullet i will feed him later they are perfect size for him (about 3cm long) . i really want to get the 5ft tank upstairs he will love it in there . natho how big was the tank that the 20cm jack was in , is it the same tank your new jack is in?

cheers nico

[natho]

Its was a 2ft tank i had him in .he was a really shy fish when i first got him he was about 10cm or so and really thin. he was fed nothing but the best mainly small shrimp ,herrring,whitebait and glassies .Remember the quicker the livies the better the show !heres a quick video of my jack and barra(when i first got him) eatin some krill and pelletshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg6dSO7DSyw

[Nico.d.R]

thats a beutiful red in his fins mine is more a orangey red . im going to get a 1500mmx460mmx460mm tank for upstairs when i start holidays .

cheers nico

[Nico.d.R]

well i finally got my finger out and got a update video of jack in his new tank , if he keeps growing this quick i might need a new tank by next xmas . he is eating 6cm mullet now (when i have them ) and still looks for more food , he had a mullet and some guppies before i took this vid but he is camera shy and wont take them if he see's the camera and if he has them he will spit them back out .[/url][url]

cheers

[BrandonH]

I couldn't see your video mate?? I have re-posted it for you though, I think this is the one you wanted posted??

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cheers
Brandon...

[mangrove rat]

hey nico, where'd u get him, none of the shops around here i been too havent had jack in ages, smiths, pine rivers, none had had any, pine rivers had a nice one about 35, thats it....

[Nico.d.R]

wow 35cm jack , how much was on him ? i got mine at smiths and i have not seen any since . they get them from the dpi maybe try getting hold of the dpi breeding people i think its at bribie or ask smiths to chase one up or find out how long till the next batch will be ready . They eat so much i have to spend a few hours a week getting food for him , well he eats pellets but he loves the feeders .

cheers

[mangrove rat]

yeah, it was a good looking fish, apparenty they were holding it for the original owner or something while he moved. seen one around the same size few years ago at zillmere, had $450 on him! yeah, ill ask next time im in there, most natives and fish like that are only in supply in the warmer months, so might be the only ones for the summer, who knows,
cheers mate

[Didley]

Boys, is there anything wrong with catching a wild fish and converting it to fresh, or is that a no no? :-/

[Nico.d.R]

i thought about it , but apart from that being illegal (in qld) , there would be a chance of killing it while converting to fresh so i didnt bother . i have seen them about the size off my jack(now) for up to $350 .

cheers nico

[BrandonH]

The bigger the fish the harder it would be to convert imo. Not saying it isn't possible but it might be hard with a 35cm Jack. You would certainly have a lot of live bait to collect every week!! until when / if you can get him over to Pellets or bloodworm's?

I am sure if your interested and post a new thread someone with more experience could give you a better idea.

Cheers
Brandon...

[Nico.d.R]

yeah not wrong on the feeders brandon , when mine gets bigger im going to try and get him on to pillies (5kg blocks).

cheers

[mangrove rat]

hows it illegal to do it....only if its undersize obviously or is there a rule you cant do it, youd probably be better leaving it salt anyway

[Nico.d.R]

getting a small jack would be illegal , i wouldnt try with a legal sized jack because even if you had a massive tank it would be hard to get a big wild jack to adapt to a confined space . im not a expert just an opinion .

cheers