Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

let us know when you do! FCR will be interesting.

so how did B247 taste?

he's the one he couldn't catch

12 fish total 2.54 kilo's

Still some nice fish in there around the 350 gram mark, down to as small as 130 grams.

Ya just gotta keep rubbing it in don't you Mon.....LOL

Just how much heating did you get out of your black tubing arrangement

You going to extend it next year?

Problem is Rupe, that 2 days in a row with no sun, and you are up the creek without a paddle. Overnight temps asre the killer. I have 3 x 300 watt heaters in there now, plus no cycling overnight. Temps maintaing around 20, so they are still eating but not much.
This latest batch were not purged, just filleted and the fillets soaked in mildly salty water for half an hour, and the flavour was 100% fine. Convinced now a very large protion of the requirement for purging is directly related to nitrate levels.

Ok, so have you been cutting down the feed for a couple of days before taking them out of the tank, or is it just that your growbeds are more productive now and sucking all the nutes/nitrates out?

ouch, almost a KW of power

ouch is right....... Short term pain tho, still plenty of fish to keep alive...

roz, generally feding barely anything, and plenty of healthy plants...= low nutes = clean water = imho, no need to purge.

Good....was going to give the famine and low nute recipe a try (when I ever get to that stage)....now I don't haveta take one for the team

How many fish have you eaten so far Mon (and how many to go )

eaten 132 so far, not sure how many left, too hard to count. maybe 50?

Great - so haven't lost too many to cannibalism....my SP are starting to go off their tucker so won't see too much growth now till it gets warmer

My silver perch tank was at 6.5 degs this morning. No wonder they are not eating lol


Harvested 19 barra @ 3.2 kg's last night.

Lil fellas.

yep, they ain't getting any bigger lol

biggest was about 295 grams, smallest like a herring lol. I ain't being selective now, just wana get them done so I can turn the heaters off. My electricity meter is haemoraging lol