Backyard Aquaponics
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As in they were alive or they had the fish heads cut off?

heads off are ok i think, but these had been filleted.

No if they specify carcass you must leave the head on. Since they measure the fish from nose to tail they will nail you (possibly fillet) if they are head less.

Went fishing yesterday in a pool of the loddon with less water in it than a bath. It was at most 2m2 and 7" deep.

Out of the water we pulled fish

Some of them were mosquito fish though

The other were 29 re dfin around 2-3" long and four blck fish (NR since out of Loddon) ranging from 2" to 4" long

I was espeacially please about the largish number of redfin because if I kill a few of them I won't be feeling guilty
Which is fortunate because on getting them home 20 of the RF were dead (suffocated I think).

I put the BF in a half blue barrel half filled (50L water) and the RF in a 160L shower base/bath also half filled (80L) water.

Is this going to be enough without asociated filters and stuff and how long until it gets to HSM.

To add to the mix there is another pool which has a few more in it which I'm going back to this afternoon so I'll have more to fit in when I get home.

Need some tips on transporting without killing and keeping without dying before I get my GBs set up.

a battery powered air pump would be the obvious

not doing it on a 40C day would be second

Went back today for the second pool.

Yesterday the first pool would have been around 200L today it was maybe 50L and had had an algal bloom take off. The second pool was about 150L but today was maybe 20L.

Yesterday the second pool had at least 2 blackfish and 3 redfin which I put back because I thought I allready had too many (which was true as it turned out) but today had none

So I want to know who stole my fish Espeacially the 5" blck Fsh Grr

For some good news the BF and RF I got yesterday are doing fine. I don't know for how long but they are fine at the moment.

lots of the time, wild caught fish die from shock, no matter how carefully you treat them, but yes, cooler days and aeration for the trip home are essential.

Yeah but who stole my fish

This last burst of heat is doing amazing (horrible) things to the remaining water in the creeks.

Went to another creek that is South of the divide (I'm north by 2km) and it had several pools of galxiids but in one they had all died

I would have grabed some but I'm so not set up to deal with many fish (I just moved house last Sunday). Plus grabbing South fish and taking them north is frowned upon evn though it is possibly legal.

maybe some poor starving bird stole the fish