welcome! Post some pics of your progress along the way in a new topic under systems
VB, Ausyfish has some great pics of rainbows on his site. The deal extensively with them. (i sound like i'm on the payroll
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Steve
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| Author: | ErisKSC [ Aug 13th, '06, 19:56 ] |
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Hi I'm new here, and interested in aquaponics systems, actually built a mini one a year or so ago without knowing there was even a name for it, it was for growing seedlings and attached to my 6'x20"x20" tank, but after a quick browse i think i may have under planted my system. I thought i'd make my first post here, as it is fish keeping that got me interested in aquaponics in the first place. I am an avid tropical fish keeper, having started with mostly cichlids, i am now more interested in natives. Currently i have no real aquaponic sytem running, but am thnking about converting my backyard pond for he purpose, it houses a murray cod atm, along with a couple of empire gudgeons and a rolling population of rainbows (m.c's favourite snack). But in my tanks i still keep few cichlids along with my pride and joy, 2xArcher fish in the 6foota, with a mix of rainbows, cichilds and plecco's there are a few more tanks but not much of interest to you guys i think? There sems to be a bit of call for a native anti-mosquito fish, does anyone else keep Australian rainbows? There are species from the murray-darling basin, right though to tropical F.N.Q and i haven't seen any mention of them, really easy to breed and quite pretty too, good if you want to sell them back to pet shops. I'm intersted in starting a system for growing out sleepy cod, i've never eaten them myself but as they are hard/rare to catch and no-one ever gives one away when they get caught, i'm pretty sure they are REALLY tasty. Anyone here grow cod/gudgeon in there systems? Oh, well hi all, can't wait to get goin' |
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| Author: | veggie boy [ Aug 13th, '06, 20:01 ] |
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Welcome EKSC. Are rainbows live bearers or egg layers. Have never had them myself, but I do love the look. |
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| Author: | monya [ Aug 13th, '06, 20:07 ] |
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Welcome EKSC, have a look what Simmo did with his pea soup. Could give you inspiration for your pond (even though by the sound of it it is far from the pea soup!) Monya |
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| Author: | ErisKSC [ Aug 13th, '06, 20:09 ] |
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Egg layers, once they reach maturity they spawn continually, every morning and/or evening, so you end up with a population of very varied sizes. here in Newcastle, thy will spawn throughout spring and summer among string alga or plant roots (also in 'mops' made of a bundle of wool about 20mm thick and 150mm long, hung near the surface of the water) the mop can be easily removed after a few days and put in a spare tank, they make excellent mosquito predators, they are active in ponds and there are too many frogs spawning in my pond for them to be majo tadpole predators. |
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| Author: | ErisKSC [ Aug 13th, '06, 20:29 ] |
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Thanks Monya, That would be an awesome setup, i don't have a huge backyard, and the tower system looks like it saves a heap of space, how big a matrix can you run from how much water? If i were to hook it up to my pond i might have 5 or 6 hundred litres, i've never actually checked the volume, it's about 1.5mx1mx0.6m, but it's irregularly shaped so thats not perfect. Is there a place with all that info already here? I only found the page a few minutes ago, stil findin my way a round. |
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| Author: | monya [ Aug 13th, '06, 20:37 ] |
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Goodluck with nearly 7000 posts to search through. Look under here http://backyardaquaponics.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=183 it's a start. I reckon towers are a greta way to add medium, while filling in gapsin your space. Wanna have heaps when I get going |
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| Author: | steve [ Aug 13th, '06, 22:43 ] |
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welcome! Post some pics of your progress along the way in a new topic under systems VB, Ausyfish has some great pics of rainbows on his site. The deal extensively with them. (i sound like i'm on the payroll )
Steve |
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| Author: | aquamad [ Aug 14th, '06, 07:16 ] |
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Welcome welcom welcome.... more addicts to help us feed our addiction! Trying for a discount there are we Steve 
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| Author: | Gary Donaldson [ Aug 16th, '06, 09:23 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Hi All |
The mention of 7000 posts raises a question. Is it worth thinking about clearing all of the superfluous comment out of the past posts to make navigating them (and getting to the valuable technical information) much quicker? |
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| Author: | b2barker [ Aug 16th, '06, 09:39 ] |
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ErisKSC wrote: Anyone here grow cod/gudgeon in there systems?
I think Joel (earthbound) has at least one Murray Cod. It's huge and makes me hungry every time I see it. |
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| Author: | ErisKSC [ Aug 16th, '06, 16:44 ] |
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The last time i saw mine, he was about 250mm long, but he's only 2 years old and was 50-60mm when i got him. |
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| Author: | ErisKSC [ Aug 16th, '06, 17:05 ] |
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HI I'm a big fan of native fish and have come to despise many of the introduced species with irrational vigour! But my favourite native fish, that is both a beautiful and fascinating tank dweller for tropical tanks and a tasty, TASTY morsel is the Sleepy cod (actually a really big gudgeon). I plan to experiment with my pond for a little while before setting up an independant a.p system but then i pplan to raise these guys! Heres a link with a bit of info about them http://www.nativefish.asn.au/sleepycod.html |
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