Backyard Aquaponics
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Mum was removed promptly ..

I have them hiding in pea gravel. They are still pretty tiny, but I wanted to do a head count today.. so I gave the aquarium a bit of a clean.

I counted 56 babies!

Good lot of stock for my students to grow up next year!

I got the adults from the local fish market .. dirt cheap!

They are a beautiful blue colour! I reckon the babies will also be a great colour.

I also have one massive one and one large one that I can't keep with any of the others. The massive one is huge!

DINNER j7au,quick boil & lightly fried in garlic mmmmmmmmmm!

we demolish 96 between 3 last time we went away

what was for mains?

can't remember! all i remember is a great tribute to pyros the god of fire, when we burned half a cubic meter of fire wood at the place we were staying (in a spit) and decimating the yabbie dam

I want to get my kids to trap some "destructor"

See how different they are from Redclaw!

Thanks for that info, I want to get some very expensive 'electric blue' marron to try and breed as they look so cool! I accidentally bred some yabbies when I was a kid so it's nice to know what they want.

Can anyone tell me where I can buy 'normal' marron to practice with?

I'm sure I can find somewere to put them if they breed.....yum

SG, i've heard that normal brown yabbies will turn blue in aquarium due to the clean water after an long period. it certainly happened to the last two i had.

where abouts in vic are you? why not just start off with the yabbies?

I found da blue yabbies for $5 each...............look awful purdy.....just a bit exxie though

i recon they might be scam............

I'm moving to the Shepparton / Strathmerton area, my Husband's family are there. We should be there in the next month or so, if the real estate god's are kind.

I can catch wild yabbies from the dam on the family's property when we move and use them for breeding / eating.

The blue marron are in the 'Special orders-Natives' part of the 'Livefish' site. I just like them as they are so spectacular!

Where can you get blue yabbies for $5? I'd like to put them in my display tanks. I've only ever seen 2 in an aquarium shop and they wanted $35 each for them. They were big and pretty, but I didn't like them THAT much!

The yabbies do sound like a better deal. If my fish ate a $5 yabby I'd live with it, if they ate a $80 marron, I'd want to grill them!

Wonder what goldfish taste like.....? No, I don't want to know!



Approx 1 in 4000 wild yabbies is blue. I guess marron would about be the same.

Edit: Never heard of them changing colour in aquariums. Mine didn't but maybe because they were adults when they came out of the dam? Very interesting..... Love to mind out more.

56 baby yabbies - removed mum and put them in a tank... They ate each other! end result .... ZERO!

They are so BLUE it is amazing!

Then, recently I saved over 200 babies .. so I fished them out and put them into one of my kids plastic wading pools .. the shell shaped thing.

They are about 5 mm long.

I have just put a new mum into a separate tank cos she is loaded with eggs.

There MUST be an easy way to grow yabbies (to save them from themselves) in a very small space / tanks.

I am thinking individual compartments .. as was posted here before a while back .. OK .. intensive .. but maybe I can see the reasoning for it.

But feeding individually must be a nightmare in such a system!

How does one breed yabbies in very small aquarium systems successfully?

Do you think the onion net method would help them hide from each other J.

i also think its a hiding thing, generally i have fond yabbies that are well fed and have enough hidy holes not to bother each other or other fish.

OK , so if I load some poly pipe with some mesh .. shade cloth etc.. it might do the trock?

Right now I am using a pile of pea gravel and pile of small limestone rocks to create hidey holes.