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#1 In between tanks

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Posted 21 December 2015 - 04:23 PM

I want to know how to keep Marron. I want to know everything there is to know about keeping them
I want to know whether heavy water changes? lots of the filtering ? bubbles yes or no? decorations?temperature? lighting?tank mates? And anything else that may help.
I already have the tank.

#2 Leichardti

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Posted 21 December 2015 - 04:31 PM

Not much to it. Minimum 3ft tank (4ft would be better), average sized w/c so about 25% weekly, but they are quite hardy. Don't need any bubbles etc as long as you have a filter that will be causing water movement on the surface. Don't put them with anything too slow or with large fins, and make sure they have plenty of hidey holes if you are getting more than one as they can moult and the tank mates or other marron can take advantage or the soft shell and kill them.


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#3 bigjohnnofish

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Posted 22 December 2015 - 02:06 AM

google would be my port of call here and then if you have anything your not sure about ask.... 



#4 MrLeifBeaver

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Posted 22 December 2015 - 11:14 AM

Just remember that Marron and Yabbies are vegetarians not really meat eaters. Lettuce and Cucumbers work well.

Check on google though, cos I am not exactly sure.



#5 fuggers

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Posted 22 December 2015 - 01:38 PM

temp is another factor with marron, they dont like it too hot and if there is anything added to the water they find ways to get out and walk



#6 malawiman85

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Posted 22 December 2015 - 07:43 PM

Try and keep temp under 26 they really need plant matter to chew on just go get some plants from a drain or creek once a week if you can be bothered. They will eat sinking pellets without problems... they will eat anything actually. Water should be a bit on the hard side which poses no problems for Perth people. Marron, as fuggers mentioned, will walk if unhappy. In fact I think they will try it regardless. Make sure you have tight fitting lids. Marron are pretty docile compared to yabbies and are less likely to go each other when moulting.
Dont worry about them catching fish... they are completly useless. Cant even catch gobies or tadpoles.
They can be messy so check your nitrates once in a while and keep up your waterchanges.
They are available cheap from Woodvale fish and lilly farm $5ish. If you want yabbies they are easy as to catch use any old bit of meat as bait. Dont try and get juvie marron from the wild... big fines...
Thats it, thats all there is to it!

#7 malawiman85

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Posted 23 December 2015 - 08:30 AM

Some more info regarding your question about tank mates; Predatory fish of any substantial size will pick them apart in horrific fashion particularly when moulting so dont keep them with native predators or highly territorial fish. What sort of fish do you want to keep?
Woodvale fish and lilly have hundreds of freshwater mussels at the moment. Native freshwater perch, swan river gobies and western minnows can be easily caught and occasionally bought. Other native species are either much harder to find or are protected species. They have an overlapping habitat with black bream which might be worth trying with marron. Black bream fingerlings are commercially available from a joint in Geraldton.
I have kept freshwater crays with silver perch up to 20cm without any problems.
Big Pete had yabbies breeding madly in a display tank with endlers and from memory maybe some ornamental shrimp. If yabbies worked so will marron.
Never seen them with african cichlids, lots of african cichlids would be ok with them and water conditions would generally suit but having a native crayfish with cichlids would be just too weird for me. Most americans, I think, would kill them off but again, never seen them kept together.

#8 In between tanks

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Posted 29 January 2016 - 02:11 PM

I went to the river the day I caught the bream and just scooped and caught some gobies( I think) the shrimp or prawns not sure what
And next to my house there is a lake full of western pygmy perch and a taddy they all look really happy and even started to colour the Marion only tried to escape the first month but now he/she is fine and assume happy

#9 malawiman85

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Posted 29 January 2016 - 03:22 PM

Shrimp are
- Palaemonetes australis - Glass Shrimp
Gobies are
- Pseudogobius olorum - Swan River Goby
Or
- Arenigobius bifrenatus - Bridled Goby
Or
- Afurcagobius suppositus - South Western Goby

If you havent seen it already, have a look at the South West WA biotope journal I did last year: http://www.perthcich...showtopic=60742

Got any pics for us?

#10 In between tanks

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Posted 10 February 2016 - 08:50 PM

Well it looks to small but the marron is happy and I am looking to get a bigger one soon when I get money
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Edited by In between tanks, 10 February 2016 - 08:51 PM.





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