Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

LOL... I really must remember to LOG OUT after each visit.

sneaky bugger.

Good to see he has a sense of humour and a bit of devil in him

For sure!
Imy can challenge him on how superior her veges taste too....

Hey Mr Imy,
you know that once you post using your partners login, you have to join the forum yourself

Time for an update I think.

Not much growth on the tomato plants and they haven't gone yellow yet but I thought I'd speed things up a bit and add a couple of goldfish... well, 5 of them. They are all still alive after 5 days which, I'm guessing, is because they hide in the part of the tank meant to house a ball float switch.

A few of the yabbies have shed their skin and we found one yesterday 'in berry' so we popped her in the 100l 'brood tank'. Everyone seems happy and healthy and are munching away on the food I'm giving them. I'm using a mix of: Chopped frozen veg (thawed), raw carrot, nuts, peas, corn, raw broccoli, cauli, lettuce. They are fun to watch dragging and munching at the food. They are getting pretty fiesty and no doubt I'll lose a few over spring due to fighting.

The dirt garden is booming... but enough said about that.

LOL! Patience Imy.... Your time will come! AP only shows its true nature when the system matures out. Add some of OBOs Seasol too... ! The dirt garden must be getting stuff like that.

And then when your little critters are producing enough solids.... and your secret little world of water microbes matures........

That dirt garden growing any complete protein food too?

Depends on if you like eating worms or not

If you find any worms put them in your growbeds.

Another yabby with eggs How exciting!

Very well done, do you think you het any offspring ?? or just caviour

What's a Yabbie? We get them in SA? Anyone know?

Probably do have them .... with a proper ENGLISH name!

yabbies are a type of freshwater crayfish. In Australia we get in different places yabbies, redclaw, marron and heaps of others (all different species)

Thanks Jaymie. I have heard of marron before. I will check out what we have here....

Love the Ozzie lingo.... "chooks" is my favourite Much nicer than "chicken"

Yep, they are little, about 10-20cm long and have big pinchy claws. They live in FW.

I HOPE we get offspring! I have the two girls in a seperate tank (a barrel which leads to the main tank) that should keep them safe from big daddy yabbies and the goldies. I'll pop some onion bag in there soon as a little yabby baby haven.

My book says that they stick with the mother yabby for a couple of weeks after hatching. Taking longer and longer trips away from her until they are on their own. Development in the egg takes between 1-2 months, depending on the temp.

There are a few other potential mum yabbies left in the main tank and with two in the barrel, I'm thinking of other refuge ideas so I can keep them apart from the adults. I'm thinking milk crates covered in mosquito net and dropped in the main tank might be okay.