Searys Creek some of the Nicest Ornate Rainbowfish Habitat in Australia and it's inhabitance.

Searys Creek boasts some of the nicest of all the Ornate Rainbowfish habitats with some of the nicest of the species, come on a Journy in this video to check out this beautiful habitat or biotope and it's inhabitance, like the endangered Oxleyan Pygmy Perch and more.

[@rikdownunda]

Katie's butt cheek biotrope is fantastic

[@MelRos29]

Fantastic video. I love all the info you provide along with the spectacular footage. Thank you so much for sharing!

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you! I have been observing these waterways for years and I'm amazed at the lack of information on the underwater habitat, so I thought I'd document it my self.

[@chickensandadumplin326]

This is breath taking and honestly brings tears to my eyes. My husband and i live on a farm in north east ky and seems like noone cares about the environment. It's heartbreaking how much trash and tires we see tossed in the river and creek near us, we pick them up but we can only do so much. I love how much both you and nick have respect. I had a 50 gallon tank for years with a pair of silver dollars their names was fred and ethel. I had to sell it when we moved cause where we were was 80 degrees and where we was moving was below freezing at the time and i didn't have the means to bring them, i was very saddened. Watching you and nick has inspired me to try again. Maybe just something small and a few shrimp since i have the farm to care for and dairy goats to milk. Thank you for making these beautiful videos ❤🐟🦐

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you for your kind words, yes we have a lot of areas here like that to but the general population are starting to learn that the rubbish doesn't just go away when you dump it in the local creeks and do have a general interest in our environment. back in the days gone by people even used to mow their lawns and dump the clippings on the storm water drains thinking it would just go away, you don't see that type of behaviour anymore, and local governments are turning our drains back into wetlands the way they should be, they have also found it is better to be rid of flood waters so we all win. It does take a group of local volunteers just to bring awareness and then the rest generally follow once they see the results and we have a lot of them now thankfully, we even have local groups getting together and buying back land to turn them into reserves, it's amazing what can happen when people get together, I am happy I have inspired you, it's nice having a little piece of nature in your home and is very relaxing after a hard days work, I hope it goes well for you and Thank you for watching 🙂

[@grbenavides]

I continue to be amazed and inspired by your work and in awe of the natural beauty of Australia & it’s ecosystems. Greetings from Texas, USA.

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you! from what I've seen you have some beautiful wild places as well, I love watching documentaries on your beautiful country to 🙂

[@Kaityscichlids]

Another great video! It was a great weekend and a lot of fun. Thank you Jason for showing us around the area and sharing your knowledge 😊

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Your welcome Kaity! it was a great weekend despite the heat, but some great memories. 🙂

[@AussieAquatic]

Stunning!!!........I'd be distracted looking out for crocodiles or Drop Bears :)

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you! no crocs or drop bears there, so safe to swim 🙂

[@AussieAquatic]

@@australianbiotopes4563 that just leaves, snakes, spiders, bull sharks and yowies, stay safe :)

[@australianbiotopes4563]

@@AussieAquatic I used to keep venomous snakes and spiders, so they don't phase me 🙂

[@IndoorEcosystem]

Your videos always make me miss Australia! Always took rainbows for granted growing up in FNQ.

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Most of us do here, sorry to make you home sick 🙂

[@glennmcgregor]

Nice production Jason. The green coloured algae which is covering everything in Seary’s Ck is Batrachospermum. Despite its colour it is actually a red algae.

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you for your nice comments, and I'm really grateful someone could identify it for me, I have been searching for ages to find it's name with no luck, that is very helpful, being that it's in a national park I didn't want to touch it, if it wasn't I would of taken some to try and get it identified.

[@KeepingFishSimple]

Great weekend!! Loved this video and all of the fine details

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thanks mate, it was a good weekend 🙂

[@JonVlogs123]

Cool biotope. 😎👍

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Yes it is nice, and something different.

[@gregmartin1615]

Wonderful work Jason. Nice you caught a 1%'er (super coloured) on film too!

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thanks mate! there are more there then what people see, the red ones tend to be more weary and stick to the sides of the bank, but you can only put so much on film before it gets boring, I saw the nicest one there and got it on film but it's mouth was deformed so I cut it out, but yeah they must get chased a lot due to their colour so they hide a lot.

[@aquamon1330]

Another awesome video. Better than going to the cinema 🙂.

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you!

[@nrledites7120]

Great Video, very informative of the natural environment we have in this Country.👍

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it 🙂

[@jenskarlsson4744]

i would be so paranoid of Crocks !! Great shoots looks lovely !!!

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you! there are no crocs in that creek, perfectly safe.

[@footagemissing]

Another great video. Really liked the format, and the fish keeping advice. Keep it up. Thanks.

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thanks for watching!🙂

[@UKFishCam]

Lovely video, glad to see more uploads. The quality is really good too as I like the intro portion to the clips.

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thanks mate!

[@user-qm3uc2ld4v]

awesome love your work!

[@GRBAquatics]

So Very Cool. Thankyou.

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you for watching! 🙂

[@malcolmmcguire2876]

Thanks Jason, your work, especially the editing, is really good and gives me lots of ideas. Have you ever thought of filming red-finned blue eyes? It would be brilliant to see them if you are allowed to get close. Cheers

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you! I have a video on here for Redfin Blue-eye, I got permission from Bush Heritage to even do a small biotope aquarium on them in their shed at night, I think I'm the only one to have a Biotope Aquarium for them on here, it took a bit of persuading and I could only use the fish overnight before releasing them again, and everything had to be sterilised to do it when I was doing some volunteer work at Edgbaston Reserve, go to my KZbin page and click on videos and scroll down, it also shows some of the habitat around the area, amazing little fish 🙂

[@kelleyforeman]

This was so beautiful! I have Rhadinocentrus ornatus in my aquarium half a world away. It’s si nice to see where they come from. Thanks for sharing this with us!

[@australianbiotopes4563]

It's my pleasure! I'm happy you enjoyed it and got to see where they live in the wild, Thanks for watching 🙂

[@MajesticAquariumsTV]

So cool!

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it 🙂

[@greggrover8247]

Top video as always and nice to have the vise over .

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you! yes I finally got a voice recorder, much more interesting now I think 🙂

[@workerant7874]

Love your work.

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you! 🙂

[@melissaafkrichardson9204]

Amazing video as always, well done 😊

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you! 🙂

[@BBRBGR]

Your work is beautiful. Can you sequence a bunch of them together and sell it as a documentary to a streaming service? You deserve the recognition.

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you! I have a heap of hard drives of footage, I may do that some day 🙂

[@jokervienna6433]

There you are, pleasure to "meet" you! :) Great video as usual, lovely biotope and extremely nice fish. Ornates have been on my wishlist for many years, might still happen.

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you! 🙂

[@Tucompamark]

Muchas gracias por compartir, saludos desde México.

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Gracias! y de nada, saludos desde Australia. 🙂

[@GosperTYVS]

Well done mate this was a an amazing presentation of some absolutely beautiful country and water-life , thank you for sharing your knowledge and documenting this stunning place … ❤️‍🔥👍🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you for watching!🙂

[@Yablivesmatter]

Awesome video! Love Searys creek, was heaps of cherax dispar last time I stopped there am surprised not to see many in this video

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you! there are plenty there but I was concentrating more on the fish in this video.

[@Yablivesmatter]

@@australianbiotopes4563 thanks good to know, what I haven't seen there before was the Red morph ornates!!! Beautiful fish!

[@australianbiotopes4563]

@@Yablivesmatter There are a few there, but very few and far between.

[@NaturalBiotopes]

Good day. Good job, this is one of the best Australian wildlife videos. I know what kind of work it takes to shoot such video frames. You are a professional!

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you for your kind words! I'm happy you enjoyed it 🙂

[@deniswillypradita8912]

I hope i can have some of ornate from australia

[@AguabonitaAquatics]

Love the light green macroalgae, I'll see if I can copy the look with tied subwassertang as I recently acquired Seary's Creek Rhads! For now they are housed with melanotaenia kali tawa which they seem to get on well with, the dominant rhad keeps challenging the dominant kali tawa which virtually ignores the advances, but it really makes for an entertaining tank. The kali tawa are dropping eggs constantly and I just had the first one hatch today. It may just be that the kali tawa dominate the mop, but do you know if the Searys breed in hard water with a higher ph (7.8)? I also acquired Carland Creek Rhads at the same time and they are breeding well in our tap water and their eggs are likely going to start hatching any day. I notice the eggs are quite large compared to blue eyes (ivantsoffi - it was a good week for fish acquisitions, I haven't had these fish before either but looking at them there is no way they could lay eggs that big). I checked out your biotope aquarium for them: very nice and looks much more achievable than Searys. I also have a line on honey blue eyes so may be able to get close to duplicating your set up. Of course, if you have the chance to do any filming on Carland, you will get a least one like from me, lol. I would love to see what it looks like. It's very cool to see the actual habitat where your fish come from... however, as you've suggested, and I can attest to, the Searys do look better over a dark substrate (i use black sand in nearly all setups). Thanks for your efforts in bringing us "real deal" Australian habitats.

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you! I'm happy you enjoy them, to be honest Carland Creek is just down the road in the same area, but the water doesn't flow as much so it is very heavily tannin and un-filmable but the habitat is the same, these Rhads will easily breed in just about any water, they aren't touchy, I keep them in tubs with town water and they breed like rabbits, they can handle a variety of conditions, as a substitute for the algae Riccia fluitans may be a better choice and Lilaeopsis brasiliensis to replicate the ulticulata, if you are overseas and can't get the right plants, to grow it well you can put a good substrate under the white sand and then add a layer of leaf litter and wood, this would mimic the creek better if your after that look, I boil mine a few times first so they don't leach to much as the fish look better in clearer water, I hope that may help 🙂

[@AguabonitaAquatics]

@@australianbiotopes4563 Thanks. Nice, I have riccia and lilaeopsis is readily available. Appreciate the advice!

[@user-zf4sd1fn4y]

Beautiful. These videos inspired me to look for crimson spotted rainbowfish in my local catchment area around Guanaba Creek / Coomera River but I've had no luck. Do they hide somewhere in Winter?

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Yes winter is the worst time to look for them, they seem to disappear, once it gets warmer you should have luck.

[@user-zf4sd1fn4y]

@@australianbiotopes4563 thanks for the info, looking forward to Summer in that case

[@australianbiotopes4563]

@@user-zf4sd1fn4y They seem to just come out of the woodwork when the weather warms up, some nice rainbows around that area to.

[@DEXTER-TV-series]

3:53 *natural aquarium is aquarium with algae !*

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Yes 🙂

[@bolsa3136]

Have you seen areas where P. mellis, R. ornatus and M. duboulay coexist?

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Yes

[@bolsa3136]

@@australianbiotopes4563 thank you!

[@jonathonlove9413]

hey, do you have an iNaturalist account? i'd be very keen to follow you there if you did!

[@australianbiotopes4563]

I do but have never posted on it, I have been to busy with other things, I will have to one day though as I have so many photos with good information.