Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

G'day Cobbers, Thanks for the kind words OBO.
The whole test involved a day off work (who cares) 400km round trip, and the whole interview lasted 6 minutes, this included the test and brief conversation, when I got called missus went shopping, when I called her 6 minutes later to say it was finished, she had just got into a shop and said "your Joking, you could have made it last longer" (she always say's that ) but the whole thing was a joke, I still may have to wait up to 6 months until the Local Govt schedules the ceremony, Due to the flooding action being taken, this maybe longer than shorter

One good thing about the whole trip got to call and meet Troutman, cheers Gav, picked up trout and dropped some off at Popeye's and Toothy picked his up, all survived and Gav your count was almost spot on with +6 so I now have 40 trout, well I hope, will see when sun comes up.
Thanks for the tour Gavin, and great to see plenty of stock of lovely Silver Perch, will catch you in October about picking some up

Yes, Yes I'm getting *frack* ing Silver Perch, so shut up

nocky just had a look in tank. all fish alive and well. they took food. one problem, how the hell do you count them when they fly around like crazy bs. cheers toothy

No worries Toothy good to hear, mine all seem to be ok as well, you will have to take our word on the count, missus counted them in and she has finished school from pre primary to year 12 twice now so she should be on to it, if not god help the next generation
If you think they are pumped up now, wait until next month or 2

Good to here that you didn't get knocked back as an Aussie.

I suppose if you went in there with the obligatory carton, the deal wouldn't have taken any more than the five minutes.

I had a phone call from a prospective Green zero trak lawn mower purchaser the other day. He told me that if Rick owns one, that is a good enough endorsement for him. Bloody heck, my hat doesn't fit any more!!

hehehe had to go back a page and see what my nice words were lol

Have you noticed that the Trout are very sociable this year? You walk anywhere near the tank and they go crazy jumping out of the water Great fun.

Yes rick we had a sale, what size is your head (is a line there )
Mine are not feeding as yet and had 5 floaters this morning, added more air, ammonia up around 1 so maybe the cause

So that's it hey, all over......
bugger about the floaters, we haven't lost any trout and it's been a week so far.. I guess there are a few people getting trout today, Gavin madly running around from house to house...

yep big trip for troutman today carnt wait

Total of 10 floaters now, water is greenish, have stirred things up and no more came to surface, ones that swim near top spook easily but don't seem that interested in food, Amm 1 and Nitrite 0 temp 13.5c, the not feeding has me concerned as Toothy's are feeding well, I have thrown food in front of them and they swim off, I have 4 air stones and 2 pumps as well

whats your ph like Nocky??

Yeah strange,

Strange indeed... what's your pH Nocky??

pH about 7.5, 18 floaters now, only a couple at a time others spook very easy but still wont take pellets, would they eat algae from tank Walls? most floaters look pale so they may have carked it when we put them in tank, I didn't acclimatize them as was dark, so maybe shocked from TM's water to mine hope no more or I would be thinking virus from the reddies maybe

If the difference was significant, this would be your most probable source.