Backyard Aquaponics
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Steve, I go a hurrummmph from the loving wife when I said "hey, we can put trout in the swimming pool!!!!!!!!!!!"...at least I think that was what she said.

Will get a temp reading and compare it to the fish water

around 15 my guess Les.

so how u gonna divvy up the fish BK? in light of their goldfish fettish i's day keep em out of the native tank!

check ammo before each feed to judge if you should lay off for a bit, with a week or two the UGF will have come up to speed.

C1 5C rings a bell for spawning.

Except they are not natives

Yep an can handle 2c no probs, which means they passed the 5c so they are switched on.

lol VB they are so native...just not to OZ lol

steve gunna put em all into the ibc when i get it here, will hopefully build some sort of covered area ( at the moment will be a 12ft x 10ft footprint) this weekend.only need to keeo the weather off the tank if im gunna have trout for now

don't forget to add the sea shells BK.

Hey can any one correct me on this, but i just foend a DPI document that says they will tolerate salinities of upto 35ppt which is basically sea water

Shouldn't have any trouble if you have an ich outbreak then Steve :-)

thats what i was thinking!

nuke 'em good.

Yep thats right Steve 35ppt

Not far removed from Salmon as a species Steve......

In fact Brown Trout and Sea Trout are one and the same species.... often called Atlantic Salmon...

http://www.atlanticsalmontrust.org/seat ... trout.html

no shit?

not that i know much, but i'm starting to think that all this "trout are soft" stuff is just a DO thing.

i thought they were the same species ? at least that was what i thought we were told at a fish farm in tas, but bear in mind i was 12 and not that interested at the time
(didnt catch one fish the whole time we were in tas even at the bloody fish farm, family joke started ... trout? .... no such fish ! )

To clarify the above Brown Trout are salmonoids and altough often called Atalantic Salmon aren't. They are meat eaters and supplement with insects

Rainbow trout are a fresh water fish. I was always told they were primarily insect eaters, which will sometimes eat meat.

Not sure why they tore into your Goldies unless they were hungary or being farmed the natural instincts have changed slightly