I absolutely looooooooved this video Kaity! Although I was incredibly jealous, I love how you showed everything and it just felt like we spent the day with you. The spots all looked phenomenal and I gotta say my fav part of the video was 3:47 "thats a nice rock." hahaha. it is totally something I would say.
Australia is such a beautiful country. If I had my life to do over again, I think I'd do everything in my power to immigrate. Glad you got your fish. They were pretty stressed out when they were put in the fish shop aquariums, but they should colour up really well as they acclimate to the now surroundings. I'll bet they are looking super now!
Great video Kaity and would love to see more like that. Can't wait to see them in you're tank. Made me laugh when you said why do they call them twin bridges!!!🤣🤣
Great video ❤ Kaity 💥 a real banger as they say - loved the stunning scenery, well done for braving the height of the dam, very brave 💪🏻, brilliant catch too with 4 different species in your net 😊, thanks for taking us with you, great additions for your tanks ❤
You’re welcome, it looked like a fantastic day! As someone else said it almost felt like we spent the day with you all… Love the thought of going and catching tropical fish for your own aquariums too!
I really enjoyed seeing your collecting trip. You did an excellent job on the filming and editing. Thanks for taking the time to make the video and share with us all.
A long day, but a fun day! Thanks for taking us along with you. Looking forward to your new scape. I have the 75g finally on a stand and the hardscape in. Hopefully I’ll to get things glued down and substrate in today.
Great video Kaity! I think it was an exhausting trip but you got a bunch of fish! Thanks so very much for sharing. Hope to see more of your adventures in fishkeeping soon! ❤😊
great video 👍🐟 I spend alot of time out that way riding motorcycles and pass by all this stuff but have never actually stopped to take in the nature . Thanks for sharing
Loved the video, i'm from upstate NY, USA, liked seeing the different plants and landscapes. jealous of the weather, cold and snowy here, would like to see more videos like this one. keep up the great work on your channel
Hi Kaity. Very jealous watching this video. Reminded me of the wonderful time I had as a backpacker in Australia. Now stuck in freezing UK where last night it was -7 degrees! Amazing you can pick up fish in their natural environment, and beautiful environments at that. What a great day out and thanks for sharing it with everyone.
Thank you so much Dominic, I'm glad you enjoyed it 😄 Wow!! -7 degrees, and I thought 24 degrees was cold 🤣 It's definitely nice having the warm weather here
Great video Kaity, it was a fun day had by all, it was very refreshing going out with some younger fish lovers and seeing how excited you got seeing the fish in the wild, I'll bring you a couple of other fish I've bred for your tank when we do it, it should be another fun day 🙂
@@BlakesAquatics Yeah that was bad timing, I was on my way up to Cairns, you are always welcome if you get back up this way, I was the same I was going to hit you up when I went down to Melbourne but I was down there to do a biotope for the Bendigo Library and was only there for 4 days and I was lucky to finish it in that time, we spent most of the time looking for hardscape and I only had a day to scape the actual tank, We'll get together one day 🙂
Thank you so much Jason! It was such a great day. I appreciate you taking us out and showing us all the habitats so much 😊 I'm looking forward to scaping the tank!
👍🏽👍🏽 That was a brilliant day out Kaity ... I can see you creating a shallow tank river biotope with maybe a crayfish and some small species in the new year.
@@Kaityscichlids Have a good day ... I think you will enjoy the river stream set up in the link below... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FCzHyJGzOVc.html
Hi Kaity! I enjoyed this video so much. Thank you for showing so much of the enviroment. Australia is such a beautifull country! Funny to see that you are swimming in a river while its freezing where i live 🥶 im looking forward to see you get the fish and put them in your beautifull tank ❤ greetings from the Netherlands.
Thank you so much Vincent!! Yes I forget that on the other side of the world you guys are all in Winter! I am adding them in at the end of the week and am really excited :) I think they are going to look great
Love the content Kaity! Perfect vibes for enjoying my morning coffee. Here in Florida you have inspired me to go hunt some Florida Flagfish (Jordanella floridae). Cheers from the other side of the globe!
hello from Boston, Massachusetts, USA! Winter is just starting here...🙁......16° Fahrenheit.....not sure what that is in Celsius.....lol......love the video and my Australian Rainbows
Nice video. Looked like a lot of fun. Beautiful country where even picnic table are venomous. 😛 When fish spotting, a good pair of polarized glasses is a must, preferably in the copper range of colors. Smith Optics has a nice pair for fly-fishing anglers. That is so neat to be able to go to the wild and catch fish you normally see in tropical fish stores. Very enjoyable video...I subbed.
This is amazing fun. I wish I could go to South America to do what you did. I’m into tetras, axolotls, dwarf frogs, and newts mostly. I love your beautiful aquariums!
That would be seriously incredible to go to South America and do that!! I love all of those too, it would be cool to go herping one day and look for things like newts. Thank you so much :)
Gday Kaity, awesome content, My wife and I used to hunt rainbows years ago and still have my tanks but alas they are all empty. Just out of curiosity, I would love to dive that waterhole just so I could see what is in there, I think that hole was much smaller 25 yrs ago and it was good for the Purple Spotted Gudgeons as well as rainbows. I might just do that one of these hot days and go catch some rainbows. I do have some rainbows in the outdoor pond and I am going to increase the pond size soon. Cheers Brad
Thanks for the vid. I should get out there myself. I picked up some Crimson spots from Paul a little while ago for pond fish and fell in love with them. BTW the page links in the description aren't working.
This is cool. I used to catch fish out of Four Mile Creek at Strathpine as kid to put in my 4-foot tank. 20+ years later I was doing the same in Rockhampton for my six-foot tank. Then, a few years back I was catching Pacific Blue-eyes and Rainbows in the Nth Pine River up in the fresh for another tank. I really like focussing on natives. I doubt I'll ever have another aquarium though. I live mobile now, so not very practical :)
That's really cool! I am thinking of getting some Pacific blue eyes at some point. And yes it definitely wouldn't be very practical for mobile living 🤣 I'm sure you can enjoy lots of them in nature though living mobile 😊
@@Kaityscichlids Most definitely, Kaity. I always get a little thrill when I see fish doing their thing in the wild. And snakes, lizards, birds etc. When the tides are in their low cycle (neap tides?), and fresh water is flowing, there are some good spots down behind the North Pine Golf Club worth exploring.
What a brilliant video, thanks so much for sharing. Here in the UK it's currently around -1 deg C and snowing, I also notice your petrol price is almost half that of ours😒. I did live in Australia ( near Sydney) many years ago, you have a beautiful Country, I wish I'd been into fish keeping when I lived there. Those huge aquariums are awesome. x
@@Kaityscichlids You will probably hate it till you get the hang of rotating it for the right angle. It works very well to take pictures through windows also. Enjoy it when you receive and start playing. Just remember that you lose about halve the light available, but the camera should compensate for it.
Great vid. Love this as a rainbow keeper. Must say, hearing that the traps are salt water - they are known as shrimp nets (used in freshwater) down south and have been used for bait for generations (well, my grandfather used them, as we continue to). Cool to see them used for this - would have never known.
Twin Bridges used to be a VERY popular spot to go camping before the council decided to stop allowing vehicles to go to certain areas. I've seen lung fish swimming up the rapids and even saw a pair of platypus in the river one evening we were camped there. Was magical
Thank you!! And not to worry, we are safe here in South-East QLD! 🤣 The only crocodiles here are at Australia Zoo. If you drive up North it's a different story though
I know of some nice places for swimming on the Gold Coast like Currumbin Rock Pools and near the Natural Arch around Mt Tamborine. I don't know any in Brisbane or the best spots for collecting fish exactly, but you should check out Jason's channel Australian Biotopes if you're interested. He has visited heaps of places around Brisbane and in QLD
@@Kaityscichlids I loooove his channel! I am not really in a position to keep fish (yet?) but I love nature and I also love teasing my fish keeping American friends. I think I kind of just assumed the locations of that channel were out of reach until seeing them in context of you all travelling like that. I'll check those locations out, that sounds really neat
