Hi everyone,
My daughter and I managed to take a photo of this slippery little sucker.
I brought them at 100 mm in mid Jan now 230-240mm
Cheers
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| Author: | bigdaddy123 [ Apr 27th, '10, 18:27 ] | ||
| Post subject: | Bigdaddy's Barra | ||
Hi everyone, My daughter and I managed to take a photo of this slippery little sucker. I brought them at 100 mm in mid Jan now 230-240mm Cheers
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| Author: | kersplosh [ Apr 27th, '10, 19:35 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bigdaddy's Barra |
Wow, is it just me, or are those guys growing fast? They must be happy Barra. Good work! |
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| Author: | RupertofOZ [ Apr 27th, '10, 21:58 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bigdaddy's Barra |
Start eating them as soon as they're big enough BigDaddy... I lost mine overnight & today after the tank temp crashed to 16 over the last day or two... |
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| Author: | earthbound [ Apr 28th, '10, 16:45 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bigdaddy's Barra |
Nice healthy looking specimen bigdaddy, do you have some heating in your system to keep them going over winter? |
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| Author: | bigdaddy123 [ Apr 28th, '10, 18:41 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bigdaddy's Barra |
Hi everyone, Aren't they a great looking fish? They grow well, aiming to have them ready to go onto the barbie at Christmas,but not so sure now,after seeing what happened to Rupe. I have 2 300 watt Jaeger aquarium heaters 1 in each tank at the moment.The grow beds do not get turned off at night yet the temp has dropped down to 10 C overnight and they have read min 20. something in the coldest fish tank.I aim for 26. I was going to build a seperate 600 litre trout system,with 3 200 litre drums I have left over with 600-1000 litre grow bed/s.Then the thought hit me,Why not put the 20 barra I have,into the 600 litre trout system and put trout into the current barra system,that way the heating would be less and the enclosure I was going to build around the current barra system, would go around the 600 litre system would be smaller.I might go that way unless I'm advised not to. I think I have a couple of weeks to decide as I need to make the grow beds yet.I'm open to any suggestions. The electricity bill was slightly higher than normal, but that could partly be because we bought a big bertha new fridge,the next bill will determine if we will be getting stuck into the barra sooner than expected. I am really sorry about your loss Rupe, to lose that many Barra would break your heart.I may well be eating mine soon,after reading your story. Cheers. |
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| Author: | rmcpb [ Apr 29th, '10, 09:21 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bigdaddy's Barra |
I once saw a swimming pool heating setup that ran off some poly pipe on the roof with a small pump for circulation. We tried it at work to keep the lungfish ponds warm throughout winter and to cool them in summer. They worked really well and may be a way to reduce your power bill. |
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| Author: | bigdaddy123 [ Jul 20th, '10, 17:03 ] | ||
| Post subject: | Re: Bigdaddy's Barra | ||
Hi Folks, The barramundi have not grown much over winter in our environment as you would expect. I have been concerned with the appearance of fine solids back in the water of the fish tank,so unfortunately,I stirred up the water a lot today and really cleaned the bottom out,cleaned the heaters,air discs pipes etc,etc.I was using a fine fish net to try and scoop out the fines after vacuuming on the bottom and accidentally caught this bloke he's about 270mm long.I reckon he is a smaller one with some possibly 300 mm long. Sorry about the fuzzy picture,I did it on the fly,he was wriggling a bit so I wanted to get him back into the water ASAP. Cheers.
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| Author: | mantis [ Jul 20th, '10, 17:32 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bigdaddy's Barra |
Good to hear that they are all still ok. Only another month or so and we might get some warmer weather down here, which will make your job easier |
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