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northboy Shrimp Master

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WOW its flogging down at the moment 130mm in 4 hours this arvo.

 

Monday and Tuesday with the onset of this Cyclone, triggered some amazing events, the most impressive has been the Riffle Shrimp, both in my ponds and local creeks.

 

The small ones around 2.5 to 3cm have been crawling out of my ponds and climbing local water falls as well, neither time I had a camera with me, I have a couple of hundred from ponds and 50ish from a local creek, 250 in a tank it is a sight and they all want to escape so all corners have plastic tapped around them to stop escapes. It must be a new ground response, they all want to move up stream to find a new home and feeding ground, they have settled today and feeding well??? that opens new questions.

 

All the big one in pond are staying put, just the little ones wanting to migrate. I will try to get some photos when the rain is gone, no promises though.

 

The other thing that caught our eye was nesting Gobies of various species, we were out looking for Fresh water Morays Monday night, to see what they were doing and what condition they are in, did not see any. However there was clean send around a lot of rocks and when we carefully lifted them, each one had a pair of gobies under it, species from 3cm to 12cm in pairs. We surmised they knew there was a flood event coming to wash the fry down stream to feed and grow and the Gobies were right, its flooding.

 

There is much more can be written, but at the risk of boring every one I will stop there, except to say I spotted the BIGGEST Croc I have ever seen last night it was nearly 6 mts or 17 foot old measurements and it scared the krap out of me, normally I will frighten them off and do what I was going to do, I went home sooken stuff that.

 

Bob

 

PS I have herd that the Riffles and Macro's climb Barron falls in very large numbers, if I can get near it at the right time I will take a camera for sure, talking 100s of thousands???

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Depend on where and when the Cyclone crosses Mate, The usual is and it is the go at the moment, all the rain is on the southern side of the event, so we are getting drowned, up north not a lot, YET.

 

I also have to give the Scientist time to get his stuff together. You will get on well with him as he is the one doing all the Taxo work on shrimp in Australia.

 

 

Bob

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