Middle Creek Farm

02/06/2026

Freshly hatched! Our first fry for the season, Dwarf Galaxias ❤️

21/05/2026

How is this beautiful big girl! I have never personally found a Pygmy perch this big in the 15 years of breeding them.

17/05/2026

Some super little cuties! 5 day old Desert gobies having their breakfast of rotifers.

13/05/2026

Fantastic outcome! Fingers crossed for many more successful breeding and releases from Snobs Conservation Hatchery.

30/04/2026

Obviously some artemia eggs ended up in my outdoor backup rotifer culture 😆 I have tried to grow out artemia so many times unsuccessfully!

27/04/2026

Another great day for our threatened small bodied natives ❤️

🐟 Big news for one of Victoria’s smallest battlers.

We’ve stocked hundreds of offspring of the critically endangered West Gippsland galaxias in hopes of establishing a second population for the species.

Between 2002 and 2012 this little fish saw its numbers crash by 97 per cent. Today only one known population exists in a tributary of the La Trobe river.

Now, thanks to a breeding breakthrough at our Snobs Creek Conservation Hatchery, love is in the air and we’re starting their journey back from the brink of extinction.

The milestone was made possible thanks to our partnership with DEECA’s Arthur Rylah Institute on our 10inTen plan to recover at least 10 of Victoria’s most at-risk aquatic creatures in as many years.

We were also stoked to have GLaWAC, Middle Creek Farm and Forest Fire Management Victoria join us on the ground to send off these fish, in what we hope will be the first of many releases in years to come.

Funding to find a suitable home for these fish came from Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water’s Saving Native Species Program.

Learn more about our 10inTen program at www.vfa.vic.gov.au/10inTen

Threatened Species Commissioner

20/04/2026

Still haven't purchased your early bird ticket for the 2026 ANGFA Convention? Maybe a sneak peak at the speaker list will change your mind! More info on our individual speakers and their topics will be released in the coming weeks

Get your covention tickets and merchanise here; https://www.angfa.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=307&Itemid=303

13/04/2026

Ever wondered what 1220 Dwarf Galaxias looks like 😛 these are being released tomorrow around Melbourne!

08/04/2026

Flatheaded Galaxias, learning new things about these unique fish. I have observed for the second year a type of summer dormancy, they literally stop actively feeding, spend most of their time hiding. Then as soon as the season begins to turn and daylight reduces, they transform into eating machines and smash anything that is put in their tank, here they are feeding on freeze dried blackworms.

27/03/2026

Always a great meeting for talking all things fish!

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

The date of the next Angfa Vic meeting has changed due to a clash with Good Friday. The next meeting date is now the 10th of April at 7:30PM, more info and speaker details will be released next week!