Backyard Aquaponics
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Great news!!
Why did you choose the blue over the moz??
Brian

If you like interesting crustaceans look up Mantis shrimp if you don't know of them already.

Sorry for the off topic.

things went good on the trip to get the fish,
i got about 120 yp, and 10 blue tilapia.. they only sold the tilapia by the pound, i bought 3 lbs, hopefully they're not all male!
i've had about 15yp die so far, they were just seined from a pond a week before i got them, so they aren't feed trained yet, but they are eating ground up pellets and blood worms.. i made a net cover for my tank and a crowding net that works great..
got a few pics to share
here's the ft cover, it folds in half and has a "cutout" area for where the drains are;


the crowding net;


half the crowding net

lost a few perch transporting, fish were bagged with pure oxygen;

couldn't really get any shots of the bags with the flourescent lights reflecting, so here's some perch in the pool;

another of the perch;

i picked out the smallest tilapia that i could to get 10 in 3lbs, so i put 5 in 2 different 55 gallon tanks;

all seeds i planted have started to sprout, except for stevia and fennel.. i've yet to get fennel to start indoors, but it grows fine outdoors, and cuttings did great.. this was the first time i tried stevia, it should be ok outside..
here's some pics of the gb's

more gb's, first indoor strawb

cantaloupe coming up

moving on to another gb, the tomato and eggplant (2 kinds) seedlings;

first indoor tomato;

ichiban eggplant

more;

a few more;

the third gb;

more of #3;

these are "white wonder" cuke's, i also put a couple lemon cukes here (still gb3);

spinach and cress

cauliflower;

trellis for gb3 - for beans, cukes, and zuchini

old barrel gb's powering along (overstocked, but the big fish will move into the pool, will use the crowding net as a divider)

couple more of the old gbs