Backyard Aquaponics
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As a rough measure a tablespoon is about 30grams... an old camera film container about 50grams...

grade the fish ......I have a hard time catching them now, they are all starting to kick along quiet good....ok so I have probably been feeding them toooo much....just seem anouther guts chocking on a baby fish with the tail hnging out of his mouth

Think I am just going to leave them be i the 3kl tank...the last batch settled down on feeding on each other when they started to eat their feed, but I was mincing up pilchards and barra pellets for them......i really don't won't to do that this tme around

will gind up some of the pellets into a small size

geeze there seems to a alot of fish in the tank.....wonder if they counted them right to beging with

Better to be conservative with your feeding until they settle in...

last question for a while......can anybody tell me if this pvc is AP safe.....it says long life recyclable PVC 100 communication ......and thats all the info really i have on it

Probably as safe as any other stuff Jessy... but I'm guessing that it's "teltra" piping...

Yep, you guessed it... they use a "slightly" different diameter size to the normal stormwater/DWV/pressure pipe... fittings could be a problem...

Unless you've got a friendly Telstra depot around...

I'd call it safe, but it's up to you how far to take the foodsafe thing.

I use some of that type of pvc in my standpipes.

great, I am using it for the fish to home themselves in.....just didn't won't to accidently poison them

I've got sections of that in my systems (great big curves cost $2 each)

Hi all, everything is great here...I just had a small win with the Hatchery manager...he credited me for the loss of 150 dead on arrival, and anouther credit of 50 for nasty barra snacking on the babies I was happy.

They seem to be eating Ok now.....

All parameters 000

Thanks for all the help everybody

Good to hear they're settling in Jessy... they still show some stress lines... but they should fade in a day or two....

yeah, he was pretty blas'e about that, being so younge , he says it is quiet common..but those guys with the prominent strip, and there hackles up, they are the trouble makers......he recons there is always at least two barra that have to hassel everybody else , and be king pins of the tank. Eat the smaller, or scare them away from the food. Basically he believes Barra are a prick of a fish

So if I can catch them and I will move them to the sump

That's like executing a political leader... it probably wont kill the beast, others will just rise to supplant him.

True very true........someone always has to be Boss ........and it's going to be ME.....

All the best for the holidays people, be safe

The fish are schooling up and feeding, though not snapping at the food yet.....once again mincing in a pilchard with a small handfull of pellets. Its working, they aren't eating each other at least.

Can you over feed fish, and what happens to them if you do ??

They crap heaps and your ammo levels go up!