Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

Things appear to have moved on in intensive yabbie culture. I just watched a video on the site that promotes the EDU Extreme Density yabbie units and it seems that they place a measured amount of granulated feed into the tank which then circulates through the holes in the bottles providing the yabbies' daily bread.....so to speak. Any feed that is left over is extracted by the filter system.

On the issue of meaty bones, Jaymie, you'd probably be better off putting a couple of handsful of leaf mould into the tanks because that more closely approximates what yabbies eat in the wild. They apparentlywork their way through the mud looking for nice bits of detritus.....organic waste material from decomposing dead plants or animals.

Or you may be able to use one of Stu's freshly belted cats. Sorry Aeon....just joking!

cool, this shouldn't be a problem for us for quite a few months, but nice to have the info rattling in the caverns of my head

You could have a series of feeding pipes each ending at a diffent level. You just drop pelleted food into each of the pipes.

Another thought I had was, rather than the redclaw being able to move from on level to the other, have removable baskets with graduating size mesh, so the smaller redlaw are down the bottom and the bigger ones stay at the top. An Ideal stoarage for redclaw would be using plastic sets of drawers with holes so the water enters the top and exits through to a sump underneath. Open each draw to feed them or harvest them. It would be hard to implement though.

Tim......the feeding tube idea has merit.....and seems rather more certain in its ability to deliver food than just putting it into the water and hoping that it settles in the yabbie bottles.

Hang on GD, I love cats

gotta get that parking station on the go Jaymie

the boy would kill me if I drowned the original!

Alex thought of using bread trays for floors, they would seem to be the right height to go with the pipes

Stu.....I apologise profusely if I incorrectly confused you with the cat-belter that emerged around the time Steve outed himself as a pyromaniac.

I had ideas of making a couple of wire baskets to house yabbies in my IBC so they could co- habitate with the fish, the baskets were going to be able to be raised and lowered as required..and as for feeding I thought the simplest way was to poke a waterpipe or conduit in their basket at feeding time and drop their food down it ( works if the food dont float lol)

Hey we are talking Japanese Housing here they got an elevator just send it on down.

You can buy stacking plastic crates with mesh bases. See http://www.malcolmpaulsales.com.au/prodview.php?id=14 Select the IH001 Prawn crate as an example

This might help if you were looking to keep large numbers of yabbies in a smaller tank. It's a variation on the multi tier approach - not quite so restrictive as the EDU bottles - slighltly more captive approach to Jaymie's bread crate suggestion. They'd be easy to handle without the yabbies do a bolt. The addition of some short lengths of PVC pipe would provide hiding spots for moulting yabbies.

Can the yabbies handle living in these cramped conditions? Do they get aggresive? Will we need to keep the layers separated form others to prevent brawling?

pipe in musac and they wont mind at all

Oh, but now you've done it... what type of music do they prefer? They're essentially living in an elevator, does it HAVE to be "The Girl from Epanema"?