Are jades or tandan tandna catfish omnivirous (ie will i be able to grow some of their food?)
I would be prepared to share an order (especially if it means we get them cheaper
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| Author: | Daniel [ Aug 20th, '06, 20:42 ] |
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Hey All, for those other South Australians, where and how much do you get your silvers from? The best price i have managed to find is $2 each for silver perch 3 cm in length (pick up). Not even close to the $1 10cm (delivered) perch someone mentioned in a post somewhere interstate |
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| Author: | monya [ Aug 20th, '06, 21:12 ] |
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Daniel, I am going to wait until Ausyfish has some. Haveyou considered jades or tandan tandna (catfish)? I would be willing to share an order with you if you want. I will be ready by the end of September. Monya |
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| Author: | Daniel [ Aug 21st, '06, 06:48 ] |
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Are jades or tandan tandna catfish omnivirous (ie will i be able to grow some of their food?) I would be prepared to share an order (especially if it means we get them cheaper )
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| Author: | monya [ Aug 21st, '06, 10:20 ] |
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I know jades are, they love duckweed apparently. Tandna I'm not sure, will find out. Cool, when will you be ready? |
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| Author: | Daniel [ Aug 21st, '06, 14:49 ] |
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I have a day off Friday, so i reckon i could finish the system by sunday, and have all the gravel, etc in and cycling ready for the end of september Jades are pretty agressive to other fish arent they? |
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| Author: | monya [ Aug 21st, '06, 15:43 ] |
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How many are you gonna want Daniel? I'm gonna want about 100. As for jades agression, I'm not sure, it wouldn't worry me , initially I will stick to one kind of fish |
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| Author: | steve [ Aug 21st, '06, 16:29 ] |
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I believe tandanus are carnivores, probably wouldn't go for the duck weed. Jades are omivores and devour duckweed I have seen no agression from the jades to the much smaler convicts. They bully eachother in pecking order style, but i think its just in fun
Ausyfish should have tandanus by december, i'm not sure when the pech are available, but i'm fairly sure they have no stock at the moment |
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| Author: | Daniel [ Aug 21st, '06, 17:31 ] |
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im not sure how many yet, its 2000L of water. I was thinking about 100 too, but i might go check the other posts to see what stocking densities are suggested |
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| Author: | monya [ Aug 21st, '06, 17:37 ] |
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Daniel, have you got "the book". Has all that sort of info in it. Reccommended MAXIMUM is 6 kg of finished fish per 100 litres of water IF you have twice the volume of grow beds medium to water in your tanks. Scale down from there, depending on your ratios. I have about 3500 litres, 2000 litres of grow beds, hope fully more within a short time of putting in the fish, so going on the formula, I could have maximum of say 3 kg's per hundred litres if I get another grow bed going. Working on the assumption that I'll have a 1:1 ratio of tanks to gravel, I could have about 220 fish, if you based it on a 500 gram harvest size. So if I play it safe, halve that again and start with around 100, hopefully I won't fall flat on my face with a heap of dead fishies! |
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| Author: | Daniel [ Aug 21st, '06, 17:55 ] |
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I am in the process of getting "the book" I was going to start with 1:1 (tanks to gravel) and add more gravel as the fish grow. |
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| Author: | Daniel [ Aug 21st, '06, 17:58 ] |
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monya wrote: As for jades agression, I'm not sure, it wouldn't worry me , initially I will stick to one kind of fish
What fish were you thinking of? Also when i said add gravel i mean more grow beds. |
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| Author: | monya [ Aug 21st, '06, 18:26 ] |
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Yeah, I got ya 
Tempted to try tandana, but the fact they won't take duckweed puts me off, so going by success of murrays and steve's jades, I would like to try them. Also, I have eaten farmed Jade perch, Silvers, Barra and rainbow trout all in the same day, and IMHO, Jades were the nicest. |
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| Author: | monya [ Aug 21st, '06, 18:30 ] |
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Daniel, do you know where you can get yabbies in Adelaide without having to pay $5 each |
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| Author: | Daniel [ Aug 21st, '06, 19:17 ] |
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Yeah, i am very eager to try tandanas too..i was thinking maybe for my second lot of fish. (i think they are abit more than perch too, though couldnt find a price for them on Ausyfish) $5 is the best price i could find, originally i was going to get broodstock from the creek and breed my own (again) but the ones i got were infested with parasites. So im going to try a different spot, with hopefully cleaner water (and no parasites) |
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| Author: | monya [ Aug 21st, '06, 19:41 ] |
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Yeah, the last thing I want is stinkin bugs in my system. Maybe it's a good excuse to go camping in the flinders for a weekend. I used to work up at Parachilna and I know a couple of Non-national park gorges with ripper yabby spots. Damned if I'll pay $5 for a yabby |
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