KI marron

[djs-sa]

This is wild caught marron from Kangaroo Island, the big one was 540grams

[Hamish]

Nice - got any thousand island dressing to serve them up with?

[GaryD]

Wild catch marron? I thought Marron were native to WA. Are they farmed stocks that got loose?

From what I can remember about KI......the locals were pretty careful about translocation of species. At one stage, they had the only pure strain of Ligurian bees in Australia......and no foxes or rabbits if I remember correctly.

Gary

[Crusty]

Are these beauties still alive?

[Adareaqua]

Hi there
Tell me what do you feed your Marron - I have just been feeding mine with Barra pellets - dont have access to lupins or the like
cheers
adareaqua

[Hamish]

They will eat any vegetable matter - carrots, peas, corn, lettuce, cabbage etc.

[organicusrex]

First question: Do they taste like lobsters since they look so much like one?
2nd question: Do they survive in cooler climates?

I would import them if the laws allow. I used to raise crayfish as a boy and fed their young to my aquarium fish. You can almost neglect crayfish and they will survive. Strangely enough I never lost any aquarium fish to disease and did they love those baby crayfish.

An air stone, some dog food or table scraps and change the water when it was rank. I kept them in a galvanized steel bucket. I never ate any of them myself but it sure offset the cost of feeding my guppies, mollies, tetras, zebras and other exotics.

I fed tadpoles to my cichlids too. They were aggressive and large enough to finish them off. Some would find hideouts and make it to maturity. Once they became toads or frogs I released them to the garden in the backyard.

I encountered more diseases with my fish from pet store purchases than anywhere else. It's like patients in hospitals actually contract far more endemic disease than they do in the outside world.