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Your just trying to annoy Nocky aren't you CD..?

Who ? Me ?

Hi Paul

we have new smilies, where are the sarcastic ones
I have BSF in the freezer they loved 2 of them and like with everything else they stop eating, still thinking they maybe feeding on shrimp, will have to investigate that theory on weekend,

I reckon it's a good theory, but as with the gams, will have to ration them.

a bit hard Nigel as the shrimp are just there, forgot about them but put them in from old system, they live on the bottom and they call them Glass shrimp for a reason, will have try and get some in the net to see if they are thier

Oh - are they in the 3000L tanks ? How do you know the reddies haven't eaten 'em already ?

Have NFI, we found about 50 or so when we drained the old tank, many more would have siphoned away, they are meant to breed like blow flies and live on the bottom, original 50 went in yabbie tank but the can get into other tank, can't see them so will get my little net a trawl the bottom, if I catch some then I know they are breeding and reddies are eating them, I have to do some real gardening this weekend or I wont be allowed to play anymore so I will post my exploits at http://www.backyardfarming.com.au/phpbbb/
If no shrimp in tank then have NFI what the reddies are living on

Well how freaky is this, just got email back from MTI the NZ mob trialing Red Fin and they feed them...................

Wow ! That is weird. Interesting too, but weird

Need some sort of Twilight Zone smiley

Have been chatting with Adrian via email and he sent me all docs they have on reddies, 1 file is 4mb and the other is 500kb both PDF, if anyone wants a copy then PM me your email address and will pass on, interesting stuff, Nigel I need your email as haven't got, I know you will want the docs

Hey guys,,

I new to here and this sport..

Want to try redfin

why...
They are in the river that runs right alongside my house
They taste good out of the river, so clean tank ones would be awesome
They eat heaps. From what i have read, the diet can be only 35% protien and they love it. any higher amount is only a waste apparently.. they just poop it and dont grow bigger, polute the water. Even garden vege waste and remains of filleted fish, mince it and straight in the tank. (Closely controlled but).

Questions:
1 Can i just net like a school and grab what i want (small ones)? They will be ok in the tank direct? contamination is what i am afraid of.. you wouldnt breed perch would you for fingerling?
2 How many perch for a 4 bed system and 3kL tank? Sump tank will be 2kL with marron.
3 Do we just grab marron out of the river also.. or is this like real bad??

Stangas we netted them in a dam, we are trying small ones as an experiment, I have 12 fish but you can try as many as you like, the files sent to me from NZ have several feeding experiments and we are trialing several diets, I wouldn't take marron out of season but yes you can do that, marron are very difficult to grow in AP though as I have written many times, if you net bigger reddies then send some over,

Adrian above has told me that they can be trained to take pellets but takes time, then suggests keeps a couple of pellet eaters to teach new stock, again if anyone wants info I have received please PM me your email address and I will send, make sure you can receive 5mb of files

whoops - meant to PM

hay Nocky, i sent you a pm.

buy the way one thing about wild cort reds is they may feed better on some days rather than others, like for instance when fishing for them with lures on some days we would see them follow lures in to the bank but they wouldn't hit and we could go back two days latter and they would fight over the same lure, i think a rising beromiter seams to turn them on like many other preditory fish so your reds may take some time to feed consistantly.

i notice in my fish tanks that some days the fish hitt there feed with more enthousiasm than other days but they do generly feed well every day unless there is a big change in the weather!

has anyone tried good old pal dog food canned.

We used it out in the dams to attract the school then threw lures into the school

great fun and clean up once the school is around