Backyard Aquaponics
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Have you seen any of your outside Jades lately Steve? Any idea how they are going and growing?

Got a BIG net and wen't fishing the other day. The fish are in SUPERB health, but have not grown much......maybe doubled in size. nothing compared to the monsters inside!

But that is to be expected, they have not been kept at optimum temp, and i feed very sparingly.

The last two days have been 24C and 30C respectivly and now have a tank temp of 20C with no heating, i'm expecting to see some progress soon. And the plants have noticable growth every day when i come home

I'm just splashing around with a net in the 200L aquarium, removing the silver perch and the largest jade, they are causing too much stress in the tank. I thought catching small fish was hard, man they aren't even THAT big, but they put up a hell of a fight!

Funny to see them go "limp" when you finnaly take them out of the water

cool, great to hear that good news

I love melbourne (seriously) 30C today, and currently raining and 18C 8pm. (still not a bad temp for the month and hour)

Hows this? 18C at 8pm, 12.8C at 10 pm

Yeah, it was hot this morning here, 30 yesterday, freezing outside now.

thats what makes us melbourne folk so dynamic Steve.......if u can keep up with the weather then u can achieve anything

shirt sleeves in Brissie

An update for you all. my EM pump just shite itself. I've been so lucky having been around when it happened, BOTH times.

I've decided to retire it. I found a sapre in the shed the other day. fair bit smaller, but have it connected directly to the 3 air stones on the tank, and it sems to be flowing almost as much, the old one went through a maze of manifolds and pipes before it got to the tank. and it quiet in here.........quite weird actually

Oh, buy the way i mewntined something earlier about the jade perch changing colour..........it is incredible, they are usually a dark grey green colour, but when threatened they pale. When the pump started struggling and spluttering and then was off for about 2 min my GF said "whats happened to your fish?" I kid you not, they where WHITE!!!!!!!!!!

Since typing this thye have darkened to about 50% of thier colour. they are an incredible fish to have. GF just started topping up water and they have gone white again! must be on edge from the trauma of me trying to catch 3 of them earler.

cool fish

Ormaybe your GF is scaring the bejilikas ou tof them. Remeber, they get to know you and recognise your voice when you talk to them, the GF needs to keep her involvement down to a quiet hello twice a day until they aclimatise!!

yeah, its her or the fish

Keep it in the other topic AM!

When the jades pay half the mortgage then they can have a vote

I'm still running the air pump thru the UPS, cheap insurance, and there seems to be about 10% diff in output when under backup power. less diff than the other tired old pump.

Marita has taken offence to your post Stu, she's going to work for willow and give him all the dirt.

She sitting here

Let her. I'm not afraid! LOL Hi MArita!