Backyard Aquaponics
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+1 Rick

yeah, great eating fish !

Mantis - not sure of their heat tolerance, but the cold certainly should not be a problem for them, unless, maybe, if you freeze over !

They seem to handle all weather, King River near Albany has plenty of them and weather their is Icy winter and 40's summer, as mentioned earlier in thread a guy at Dumbleyung between Wagin and Lake Grace has them in a dam and same conditions, frosts in winter a plenty of 40's in summer, don't know if they will feed on pellets, interesting to see, we catch them on river prawns at King River, and Worms, trick maybe getting food to the bottom before the other fish eat it

Thanks for the temp info Nocky.

They take pellets as that's what Freo Hatchery have raised them on so far.

Getting the worms to the bottom is not a problem - as with all other food, the SPs are pretty casual - I rarely see a worm receive any real interest from them until it does hit the bottom. The bream should certainly have their chance - particularly when I take the big SPs out soon into one of the 1000L tanks.

They certainly won't be getting prawns from me

Bit of an update on the bream - they seem failry comfortable, though don't mix much with SPs, just sort of keeping to themselves.

There was a runt in the 30 that I bought and he turned up dead on Monday - the day after I put them in the FT with the SPs.

Length 9cm, weight 16g

Well I was home alone last night, so thought I'd cook up something a little different for myself.

Found a recipe for Braised Raddicchio and Blue Cheese in Stephanie Alexander's big book (the orange one) and added some mushrooms and onion !

As she says, the bitter leaves go well with strong flavours - I'm not even remotely vegetarian, but that was all I had for dinner and it was great !!

Nice one!!

Matt

You ate that I have no doubts it was wonderful Will be interesting to see how the Bream progress, what price were they CD

Absolutely - butter and blue cheese can make anything taste good - even veges !!


Yeah, it will. They're not overly interested in pellets yet, but that could just be a reflection of the water temperature and/or settling in. They took a few earthworms over the weekend though, so at least they're eating

$2.50 each and sizes range from 7-12cm (not cheap, but I really wanted to experiment with them - wouldn't do them all the time at that price !)

Got the salinity in the system up to 2ppt over the weekend as it's supposed to help small bream cope with low water temps. Still only lost the one runt so think I can assume we're through the main danger zone caused by transporting and then de-salinating them.

Matt - thanks - keen to see how your solar system progresses.

$2-50 is reasonable, compared to Barra, and SP i have seen dearer than that, but like Marron it's the time frame, I think we will be eating Blue Marron before Bream
Cobbler are on hold for a month or so, weather here is wicked freezing, spoke to farmer who has river on his property, they are in and also the cobbler king, said will be waste of time ATM

Yeah, we're getting sub-zero nights up here at the moment so it must be a real frog's ass at night down in the wheatbelt !

Spent enough years working exploration and waking up to ice on the end of my swag to know that I'm happy to wait a little while

A BIG THANKS TO NOCKY

Mate, I finally got around to cooking the trout you generously gave me back in Feb - did 'em Trout Amandine - bloody beautiful.

With the exception of the tomato - a wholly AP meal - doesn't get any better than that.

Nice work team!

They look very nice Nigel.

I'm a bit surprised that they are only small ones he gave you. I didn't think he grew them that small.

Did they have an enbossed John Deere logo on them before you cooked them...