Backyard Aquaponics
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Guys - has anybody kept Silver Perch together with Black Bream in the same FT ? Any bad outcomes ??

Duckpond's got silvers in a tank with his one reamining bream - the silvers are between half size to same size of the bream , most of the smaller ones ( like I told him snark snark ) are gone

lucky I picked up that expensive bream food for him from golden ponds

the bream doesnt seem to bother the silvers once theyre over half its size, looks like it grows slower too

maybe put small bream in with same size or slightly smaller silvers and the bream won't ever catch up in size to consider the silvers dinner

Silvers won't attack the bream, and the bream will only attack the silvers when they are big enough which will be about 3-4 years

Thanks guys - pretty much what I thought.

Yes, I know they're slow growing, but I don't care, they'll slot into my continual fish harvest concept beautifully !

That's if your net hasn't rotted away by the time they're ready...

I've kept them together without any problems before, they do fine together.

Ha ! Just found this Rupe

Could be a while - it's a silicon net !

The half life of Silicon... might still be shorter than the half growth of the Bream...

could always make whitebait fritters out of them next year

Yeah, yeah, yeah - no doubt they'll still have cameras then - I'll make sure you get plenty of photos of me consuming one of the best eating fish in Oz !!

Seriously... Joel has gron them out... and as you say, they're not a bad table fish...

Absolutely - I've caught a few in my time - good fight and good eatin' !!

we have caught the same one at king river for 9 years and still have to throw it back

try a bigger bait - you'll get a bigger fish !!

Caught a 3kg mullaway on same bait and have yet to catch an edible size bream