Thank you Novella.

I have found a fish forum so have posted pics there of him and hopefully get some lovely friendly repsonses soon.
They also have an Australian native section so should get some helpful hints in raising him in there aswell.

In regards to him floating we seem ti have fixed that issue, he is swimming around now and coming in and out of his barrel.
I really can't wait until we get a bigger tank all setup for him and he has a lot more space to move around.

Really looking forward to setting it up so he has some deeper holds to hide in on the bottom (going to need quite a bit of rock) and some lovely plants (albeit plastic), also hoping to get some driftwood aswell and make it look like a nice natural setup.
Anyone got tips on palces to get some good stuff cheapisH?

Also want to add to our goldies tank as they are probably very bored in there.

Another idea i was given which i might do for Murray is use the PVC pipe, cover it in the waterproof glue and roll it in the rocks, it will blend in with the rock base but also give Murray somewhere to hide