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Just like he took care of you until you had aged

HSM it would appear.

the ammonia has just hit 4ppm. dads gonna cop a 50% water change whether he likes it or not.

My Dad's exactly the same...... lol!

"I only gave them a tiny bit" or "They looked hungry!"

hohoho - listen to you two, wait until you have grownups of your own...its the only way to test all the theory we have been pumping in to you young pups

lol steve.........checked my ammonia after feeding em last night and again was between 4-8 heading towards 8......will stop feeding til me tank is set up outside

Jeez - you blokes are intent on killing those poor Trout aren't you

Poor bastards

so to dads disbelief i executed a 50% water change. Ammo should be back at just under 2ppm now. Strict no feed instructions.

zero nitrites ATM, so cycle is still way young, even with the filter stuff from my place and a $20 bottle of cycle bacteria.

all the fish now have traces of "beer batter" disease, although just a light flour dusting, not like the deep fried variety mine had during their last hours.

am seriously thinking about removing the plants and dosing to 20ppt, dads getting a 10 kg bag tomorrow.

This rate of salt will probably hurt the cycle aswell, as each strain of bacteria has specific salinity criteria but hey, i got no one to blame but ME.

TAKE THIS AS A LESSON, NEWBIES, even when a seasoned AP person breaks the rules it bites them in the ASS.

BIG TANK or very slow fish additions.

lol steve look at my new thread n help me pleeeeeeeaaaaaassssssseeeeeeeeeeeee lol.......... i too had the idea of a bigger tank lol

Yep, for reference dads system is about 550 litres if it was 1100 then the ammonia would have only been 2ppm and i wouldn't have even blinked (well, maybe with just one eye )

you mad buggers!

ahhh nutz!

Just re-read the nitrifying facts in the useful info section.

I couldn't have picked a worse time to try and setup / cycle dads system!

nitrifying bacteria displays a 75% reduction in growth at 7C to 10C (where the pond started)

and ZERO growth at 4C (where it is now).

I'm seriously contemplating emoving all the trout, putting into a wheelie bin with an air stone and 20 PPT salt to cure the beer batter and then adding them to my tank unti we can sort out dads biofilter.

Steve

I thought you already knew that Steve. Didnt you write it in the first place?

Nope, didn't write it, i modified it, but the bulk of it was borrowed from the web

i DO know it backwards, but in all the excitement over trout for low temps the penny didn't drop with dads system being new and all.

Mine in my system are fine.

New plan for dads system!

Remove the 10 most healthy trout (no sap), put in 120 litre wheelie bin wit bubbler for 24 hrs @ 20ppt salt then re-locate to my place. (not a bad deal, huh?)

Repeat this process again for the next 10 most healthy (longer immersion if signs of sap)

will leave about 5 in dads system.