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| Author: | BlackDuck [ Jan 25th, '11, 12:59 ] |
| Post subject: | Goldfish Food |
Hi, I am about to kick start a small setup using goldfish. Is there any issues using the standard, gold fish flakes you get from your local aquarium shop? JN |
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| Author: | vlt [ Jan 25th, '11, 13:05 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Goldfish Food |
Goldfish food is designed to keep them alive in an aquarium with minimal nutrient value to your plants. Other than that, no issues. I would look at: 1. skipping the food and let the goldfish forage or 2. skipping the goldfish and peeing in a different bottle each day and pouring each bottle in after aging for a week |
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| Author: | RupertofOZ [ Jan 25th, '11, 13:21 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Goldfish Food |
Nah.... just feed the goldfish feed.... Adding humonia, or any other ammonia source into a tank with fish... is fraught with danger... My blue barrel system runs off yabbies most of the time.... |
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| Author: | vlt [ Jan 25th, '11, 13:30 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Goldfish Food |
RupertofOZ wrote: Adding humonia, or any other ammonia source into a tank with fish... is fraught with danger... Hi Rupe, note my second suggestion....I wouldnt advise peeing into a tank with fish either... |
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| Author: | RupertofOZ [ Jan 25th, '11, 13:37 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Goldfish Food |
Noted VLT.... but even pouring aged urine... which has converted the urea to ammonia.. into a tank with fish... could be disastorous, especially if ammonia levels/pH were already borderline... It really doesn't take many fish to run an aquaponics system.... It's just that most people want to run as many fish as possible... |
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| Author: | Dicko [ Jan 25th, '11, 13:54 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Goldfish Food |
As Rupert said, It doesnt take many fish. Have a look at my micro system (see the link below). For quite a few years now I've just had 6 goldies in there and fed them nothing but fish flakes. Most often I dont even feed them every day  it just ticks over slowly and feeds about 4-5 lettuces just fast enough to peel a couple of leaves each day for lunches, and a couple of herbs for cooking with. it's more like an edible water feature in the bbq area 
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| Author: | vlt [ Jan 25th, '11, 14:22 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Goldfish Food |
Yup. Don't add urea to a stocked tank. Slightly disagree with the number of fish part. Even time I test, my NitrAtes are very low even with 150 SP fingerlings. |
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| Author: | RupertofOZ [ Jan 25th, '11, 17:22 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Goldfish Food |
My nitrates are zero... in all my systems.... just means the plants are using them all up..... |
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