Exploring Cairns North Queensland Freshwater Fish and Their Habitat Part Two west of Cairns.

In this video we travel from Cairns over the Great Dividing Range through to Davies Creek to see some beautiful Rainbowfish, then we move onto Curtain Fig to get some inspiration for hardscape, then on to Lake Eacham to do some snorkelling with fish in the clear waters of the lake, then onto Malanda to find the Malanda Rainbowfish and a beautiful endangered aquatic plant the Aponogeton bullosus were we end our trip until part 3 when we explore some of the beautiful rainforest streams of the Daintree and surrounds, so follow me on this journey to the Wet Tropics of Queensland and enjoy the cinematic footage of our freshwater underwater world, and Please Like and Subscribe for more videos like this in the future.
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[@Davidova]

Thanks for sharing. Great video. Wait part 3

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thanks for watching, hopefully part 3 will be the best of all.

[@jalbu8330]

Thank you it's so peaceful watching your video. 😊

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thanks for watching 🙂

[@nrledites7120]

Really well documented, enjoyed every minute of it.👌

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you! I'm happy you enjoyed it 🙂

[@bonniegoodwin5653]

Once again, just beautiful! Thank you so much for putting in the hard work so others across the world can see all that the world’s water ways have to offer. Can’t wish to see part three!

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you for watching and enjoying it, I'm hoping part 3 will be the best and the longest but I' not promising anything yet, but from what I've seen on some of the footage I'm very excited my self 🙂

[@GrumpyOldMountainBiker]

Hi Jase I can remember swimming in Lake Eacham before the archer fish were introduced. You use to be able to sit real still and the little native fish would come up and start nibbling at your skim. It was very disappointing when they were wiped out by introduce species. Enjoying your videos keep up the good work. Ken Morris

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thanks Ken! yes it is a bit depressing seeing a species getting wiped out just from negligence, they should of wiped out all the other pest species before they introduced them back but it's done now I guess.

[@SequoiaElisabeth]

Great footage! Thanks for sharing.

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you for watching!

[@SomeBitt]

I enjoyed that mate thanks

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thanks for watching 🙂

[@ChrisWhite.fishing]

As for a Northern European, Australia for us is literally on the antipodal point. I wish i could afford a trip to australia/newzealand some time in my lifetime just to experience what it's like.

[@australianbiotopes4563]

I don't think you would be disappointed, I have been to Europe twice in my younger days and it is very different.

[@ciclidamente2800]

Thank you for your job and for sharing your view of the natural world. Greetings from Italy

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you for your kind word!, I hope you enjoyed it 🙂

[@ciclidamente2800]

YES! I did enjoy it, both part 2 and part 1. Seriously and frankly speaking they depict the fresh water fauna of Australia from a point of view near to mine, with a look to the territory which helps to understand the greatness of Australian natural treasures. Thank you for your work. Matteo

[@australianbiotopes4563]

@@ciclidamente2800 Thank you for your kind words Matteo, yes we need to protect these areas for our future generations.

[@patrickhamel2756]

Great video! Your part of the world has the most wonderful fish in the hobby. I’m currently enjoying growing out my little colony of spotted blue eyes.

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you! yes they are beautiful little fish to watch dancing around with one another, you don't see that in many fish, it's almost like they are showing off 🙂

[@gregmartin1615]

Great stuff Jase!

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you! I'll hopefully have the next one by Christmas, it will probably be the best of all.

[@PrimeministerAus]

If you ever make it back to the Tablelands I can honestly recommend the Beatrice river behind Millaa Milla, we’ve found Tandanus Tandanus in what we assume where albino varieties. Some stunning cold and clear rivers with sooty grunter feeding almost exclusively on native berries from jungle vines.

[@albosmum5210]

Nice vid mate. Cheers from Col in Cairns.

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thanks mate!

[@ithulah]

Lovely! Wonderful to see. I used to keep rainbowfish, but then moved out of fish towards spiders. I now keep tarantulas (captive bred) from this exact region. So many new species are being found, I'd love to see footage of any you see. I love the biodiversity in this video. 👍

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you! yes the biggest Bird Eating spiders come from this region, they get up to 16cm, I haven't stayed long enough to get right into that stuff, I would love to go there and camp for a few days though next time I go upas it would be a great place to do some night spotting, I used to keep spiders, Scorpions and reptiles as well.

[@jokervienna6433]

Ah, new material! Very nice! Again we seem to have nicely matching time zones, as I found this one too perfectly matching my morning coffee. Thank you!

[@australianbiotopes4563]

I'm always out to look after a fellow coffee drinker, I had many putting it together.

[@rrotley1]

G'day Jason, Another great video. The scenery and wildlfe was spectacular (never knew that yellow flowered grevilleas were a wild species). Does the original Lake Eacham Rainbowfish still exist as an aquarium specimen? And the rainbowfish found in the Tully River etc, are they a local variant of the Lake Eacham species or a true Lake Eacham? Did you collect any specimens during your travels? Looking forward to part 3.

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you! yes it was great to see them flowering, they were all through that region, I got there at the right time, some say they have them but most actually look like a variant from the other creeks from around that area, and no the others are just variants as well, and no I didn't do any collecting in this region, I try not to now a days as it can be a bit of a hassle, I'd rather get fish from people that are breeding them, it works out cheaper and better for the hobby but in saying that if I need fish for videos ext. I have to make sure they have trail to the original wild ones, just incase they have been hybridised, not the best practice but it does happen, we did collect in the last video of the one fish as it has been harder to find good ones in the hobby and it wasn't in National Park so we got a few for breeders, number 3 should be good, a lot more species and nice creeks north of Cairns.

[@dennisdoran8904]

If you are still in the area Jason and have a 4x4 the Clohesy river just before Davies creek has a fig tree that I feel is better than the curtain fig. I live in Kuranda and we go to this one at least once a month.

[@australianbiotopes4563]

No long gone mate, I have so much more to do in this part of the country, I know there are a lot more spots around there but we were in a bit of a rush in this part as we where running out of time, I could go to the region for the next 10 years and still make good content, I have been going up that way for years and have still a lot to check out and film, unfortunately I did most of it in the past without video just a camera, a beautiful part of the world I never get sick of.

[@dennisdoran8904]

Agree 100% that’s why we moved up here 8 years ago 👍

[@XxLiveMusicxX]

Is there an actual reason why Australia has some of the most boring freshwaster fish in the world? (silver or plain) is it something to do with them being able to handle heat better with basic color? or we just unlucky compared to the rest of the world.

[@australianbiotopes4563]

To be honest I can't answer that one, but we do have some nice coloured ones, some of these are nice when put into an aquarium but in nature they tend to loose the colour especially in tannin water, when you get them out you can see some of the nice colours, I do have to say though that it seems the more tropical the area around the world seems the more colourful the fish, even here for some reason.