Habitat and Diet
Eastern freshwater cod are found in clear, flowing rivers and streams with rocky beds and deep holes within the Clarence River system, to significant altitudes. The size of the rivers and streams they inhabit range from very small to very large. Eastern freshwater cod are territorial and aggressive. The bulk of their diet is based on crustaceans (the large, clawed Macrobrachium shrimp and the small, clawless Paratya shrimp) and other fish, but they are powerful opportunistic predators and are also known to take insects (e.g. cicadas), frogs, snakes, lizards, birds and small mammals.
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