Backyard Aquaponics
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Man mine have landed in Perth, but still waiting on freight to Narrogin, should arrive in the morning, will cost me a beer or 2 to get freight yard to get them out for me on a public holiday, should have some pics tomorrow though

Well my mussels have landed, some pics for you, but they look great, Neil packed them well with an ice pack and a nice orange bag, have some more progress pics in my own thread, link below

good to see nocky. will be ordering monday


BTW, can you resize pix to 800x600 if poss in the future?

will fix steve, have to reinstall adobe CS2 a bit of a f#@$ up, sorry

no worries, do a forum search for picture resize (its a sticky somewhere) for a power tool that allows right click resizing.

Hummm .... this link use to point the way.... http://backyardaquaponics.com/forum/dlo ... file_id=29

But the link isn't valid anymore.... perhaps we've lost the downloads section along with the bookmarks....

Can you check it out Steve?

yep, download section was a casualty. there is another thread with the direct link in it.

back to mussels.......................orders have now closed for the victorian order

i will edit them down and upload again, but in the forum I run I have set so pics only display at 500 x500 max, I have pics on my site in a better viewable form so follow link to pics in my signature

no biggy this time nocky. just for next time.

the mussels you have are exactly the same as the ones I got from Drakesbrook.
Are they sold for eating ? if not for what reason?

Slade I don't think they are sold for eating, Neil the guy at Aquablue said he has never eaten one, but a mate of his who has told him they tasted like mussels but a little bit tougher, and obviously less salty, nothing wrong with a chewy mussel so don't know why they are not commercial, as far as I can gather these are a different species to more common mussels and are rare in the wild, they can live happily in still water, as most mussels need to live in a flowing river or ocean, but you should visit Aquablues Site mussel section, Rupert provided link earlier But Here it is Again
As for eating, I have to try one but will let them work first,

Nocky

I put mine in a small pool in the waterfall of my pond,
I notice they bury themselvs in the sand allmost all the way,
if you pull them out it seems the foot or whatever is filtering the sand,where I would have thought they would filter the water like sea mussels.
If this is the case do you think they will have to bury themselves to feed corectly
or are my obsevations misreading what they are doing.

Slade

Nocky

I have now read the link so that has answerd most of my questions

Slade

Yeh is a good link if you want to know about tank mussels, mine seem happy moving around my tank, no sand, but have put one in the small gold fish tank we have inside, this one has buried in the gravel, and he also seems happy enough

On that link, I read the following:



Does anybody know what the 'right conditions' are for breeding?