Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

none of the mulberry cuttings survived unless i got them confused which means none of the tammarillo survived

None of my tamerillo have survived ... yet my mulberries are doing well (for now that is )

oops maybe i've got it wrong!

MONYA! can you take a pick of each stem and leave and post it?

sorry I forgot to get that info for you. Will post pics on this thread tomorrow

have a carrob tree on the property, currently not used.....
Can they be used for yabbie food or something? It seems like a waste to let them rot, and dont have livestock to feed them to and making carrob chocolate stuff seems to hard..

sorry steve, forgot again, try for tomorrow!

I am thinking ... feeding fish for free...

flytrap ..

Sink a length of drainage tube into the pond or tank .. (diameter being similar to a 2 L coke bottle) cut the bottom of the tube on a diagonal so that the fish can get to the droppings... make sure tat the tube sticks out of the water by a couple of feet maybe.

Hang some meat or fruit on a fishing line inside the tube, above water level ... or better sill glue a little shelf in the tube...

cut off the top of a 2 L plastic coke bottle

Use it as a funnel by attaching to the top of the tube with packing tape or duct tape .. large diameter opening upwards... pointy end facing into the tube..

Flies can get in .. cannot get out ..

(This is similar in principle to the old "minnow trap" made from wine bottles )

Use fruit for drosophilla fruit flies ...

Use meat for blowflies ...

Worth a shot?

I guess hanging one of them insect zappers overthe pond would be just as efrfective!

anythiing is worth a shot. Do the talapia go for bugs and stuff?

They LOVE roaches, worms, flies .. stewed veggies, slaters, pig food ... just about anything!

I reckon a hanging flytrap which discharges into the pond would be a great way of sustainable feed ...

I am going to try this .. (I hate blowies and fruitflys hanging around my home!)

Would be interesting to scientifically monitor the actuall amount of protien that could be captured per week using a fly traps such as this ...

every fly or bug caught is a flake or pellet of fish food less that you have to feed them I guess!

and makes this whole thing more sustainable!

Well ..


every bug ya catch .. shortens its recyling / decomposer capability ...

but then .. nature will adapt to that ... and make them smarter ...

BIG thing to think about ...

we are very small cogs in a big machine ...

but we seem to do a lot of damage ..

well thought out .. or ignorant .. we still do a lot of damage ...

Most of us know about the effect of emmissions .. and we recycle ...

yet we still drive!


I can't get me head around the big picture ...

I think it would be good to open another topic regarding the effectiveness of the suburban individual householder doing the right thing ... walking, biking, recycling, worm farms .. and comparing it to industrial waste ..

generated by ....

the suburban domestic recycling householder ...

BIG PROB!

is there any risk of disease, ect coming in witht the flies?
Also if i use meat i will get european wasps as well, are these good for fish (silver perch) to eat or could they kill em?

Good idea though

I used to use euopean wasp grubs as bait in the UK when fishing! ..

Very risky digging up a wasp nest when you are 12 years old.

We used smoke bombs to stun them.

how about the mature wasps? can they sting the fish as they are getting swallowed?

so far no luck getting my barra to eat silk worms. Will keep trying though