Trout for NSW AP'ers....

funku

Rup
Wow, sure have been busy and popular too. Get those students hooked. marketing prowess - an oldie but a goodie. Thanks for the update. Can see how you're building that momentum for the final thrust to newcastle. More happiness spread about.

A course that bypasses the smoke will be hours faster so don't let the miles daunt you.
F

Chappo

Yep those by=passes are GREAT ....., Miranda to well north of the harbour bridge in under 25 minutes. Do they chargew a TOLL per fish??? May have to suggest that to our infantile NSW Government.

RupertofOZ

Don't you dare.. the current government would be stupid enough to consider it...

And the current opposition would want to debate exactly what fish species you were talking about... and then tell you that you'd selected the wrong ones anyway... :lol:

regattadj

RupertofOZ wrote:

Monday, day two....
Loaded about 200... and dropped to new member Terry D and RegattaDJ....

While I was replacing the tank lid when leaving RegattaDJ's ... I noticed the oxy bottle pressure had dropped off to almost empty... and that the airline was basically dribbling bubbles intermittently...

Mad dash from Rydalmere across to Fish&vege's place at Noth Ryde... with a detour via Killara (I punched Northcott Avenue into google maps... instead of Northcott Street... :roll:

)... and a few circles and u-turns...

Rupe,

Thanks for settling the fish in despite me being in Berrima retrieving the other part of my family at the time . Man these trout are fun to feed , quite different behaviour to the silvers , they quite happily took some 2mm feed I have been feeding the silvers, before I I went looking for the package of fish food you left.. btw after the darn cat found it and had a taste.
So far they look to have settled in happily , no floaters and very active fish.
here's a quick pic

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DJ

RupertofOZ

Glad to hear they're fine DJ... and that you found the feed... thought about the dogs, didn't know you had a cat.... :lol:

Sorry I didn't ring you Dave.... thought I had your number saved on the mobile... but didn't... :lol:

RupertofOZ

Bugger... can't get the caged trailer for tomorrow... the guy that hired it, is marooned with the trailer, and a broken gearbox... in... Newcastle...

If he'd told me, I would have asked him to take the trout up with him... :lol:

Geoff2222

You can use mine if you like Rupe.....but it might be a bit small as far as load weight goes????

RupertofOZ

Thanks Geoff, would have to carry about a tonne... and by the time I got it, set it up etc... be Friday anyway... and I'm working from 19:00... no way I could meet people after work and get back in time...

I'll do the run on the weekend when everyone is home during the day..

You get ya prezzie???

Geoff2222

I did get the prezzie, thanks Rupe. They'll work a lot better than the dicky little green ones I'm using at the moment.

The trout are doing well. I had nine fatalities in the first 24 hours. Seven due to travel stress no doubt and 2 jumpers. All good over the last couple of days though. Ammonia jumped up quite high - 4 ppm last two days so have slowed down the feeding and done a 20% water change the last two afternoons. Nitrite is at 0.5 ppm and Nitrate at 5 ppm which tells me the filter is working. Would expect to see the Nitrates go up over the next week or so and ammonia come down.

I'll post a thread on my progress along with some photos when I get organised.

Cheers...