Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

The plants I have in the flooded gb's have shown more growth since I changed them over. But my aglae filter adds a crap load of o2 to the water.

I have had a mortality.....first one in ages which is great.

This barra had an eye pecked out two months back, you might be able to see how it has healed over, but yesterday, the other eye was pecked out... poor thing, found him swimming backwards.

I put him in a bucket with salt and a bubbler, but he died later that day.

Good growth, the fish where 2 cm delivered 17 December, So 3 months and grew 19.5 cm

And this mornings breakfast is freshly caught Grasshopper

Nice catch Jessy! I bet the barra love them.

They love'm for sure.....but their poop is the exo-skeleton of the hopper, and it floats....that is an amazng site to see the the whole top of the water covered with grasshopper shells

That would make for an interesting photo!

Tell us about the grass hopper trap.

Mathew

ummmmm, a container, early morning under flood lights and pickem up.....

Sorry no trap, just a bit time consuming

oh,
I was hoping to hear some new/simple/ingenious way to harvest grasshoppers. I guess it keeps the fish happy though.

Mathew

It is simple....and effective...we had a swarm of grasshoppers come into town, though my yard has run out.....I walk next door and there are millions

Thanks mathew, you got me thinking, tomorrow morning I will take the throw net.... and see if I can catch even more

About the best trap I can come up with , except for..... to turn all the lights off except for one office and leave the door open so it is inundated with hoppers

How about laying the net on the ground, shining the spotlight on it rope on each corner up to and over a branch, just pull it up fast, just a thought

the scene is already set when I get to work, They are all waiting for me on the concrete uder the flood lights........

No effort except to pick'em all up

Show all all tomorrow how many I get....that time of morning, they just want to sleep

I was chasing hoppers, and ran into what I thought was a yellow thread, but it was this huge guy...I think it is a Golden Orb Spider.... I am defantly no anthropoligist.....any suggestions ??

Looks like it...
That is a mumma the boy is tiny so hard to find.
The egg sac will be hidden.