[2] Small to moderate freshwater streams, 1.5–6.0 metres (4.9–19.7 ft) width and 150–400 millimetres (5.9–15.7 in) in depth, within heavily vegetated catchments, consisting of cool and clear to slightly tannin-stained water.

Substrate is mostly bedrock with boulder and smaller rounded rocks as well as small amounts of gravel and coarse sand and larger areas of silt.

[2] A purely freshwater fish and unlike some members of the Galaxias family is not believed to undertake downstream migration to the sea as part of its lifecycle.

However, to confuse the issue, some immature fish have also been collected in May indicating a possible late spawning with a hatching around the previous November or December.

[2] This species is totally protected and is listed under the Victorian Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act, it is not an angling target[3][4]