Wild Brown Trout.

Hello there,

Now for something a little different. As you know or some of you may.I am a proper fish nut. We have been trying over the last few months to educate people as to what swims and lives in our local rivers and lakes.For 8 months We had an aquarium full of beer cans and plastic wrappers to highlight the issue of dumping in our rivers.Some of you just thought it was a stunt but no it was not.We are all passionate fishermen and hobbyists so it was for the betterment of ourselves that I decided to do that. Well 8 months on and the pike we have is now 16 inches long and a couple of pounds in weight he was caught on a worm only 6-8 inches at the time. He is now moved into a 1200 litre tank and he is tame and wonderful. So people can get to see a live pike specimen rather than a dead one.......

Now I have 9 wild brown trout rod caught by myself in the pikes previous tank...without the cans.....The day I put them in they started feeding straightaway they are truly beautiful fish and this is my favourite tank in the place I cant stop playing with it. Its funny really because we import the strangest animals but theses are my favourite.

When i caught them they were all emaciated which is weird I never saw this before. Food must be scarce because of the level of emaciation ie the ventral openings were beginning to protrude.....well funnily enough...3 days later they have eaten so many mealworms that they are fat....but they will have to put on weight to get them up to scratch.....i have never seen such hungry fellahs....they are not even hiding now and swim in full view oblivious to me.It is amazing that if you take away the aerial threat they seem non plussed....

I will put up a few vids in a bit if any one is interested....we will rehouse them as they grow....but seeing their behavior it amazes me a lot of fishermen could learn so much by just watching them in the aquarium......

And yes We do have permission from Inland Fisheries we work closely with them...and yes the parameters are correct..the actually tank is 500 litres and is turning over at 15,0000 lph.....they just glide in the flow....awesome.

Its a great learning opportunity for my customers to actually get to see live specimens...I hope maybe to set up other displays in the future at Aquatic Village


Cheers for now

Ian