Backyard Aquaponics
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Guys, brine shrimp are a type of small insect/animal that lives in saline water (i.e. salt lakes). They're not something that is packed in salted water.

Also, they're packed as a frozen food for fish.

I still have a container with brine shrimp eggs (think seamonkeys) from when I used to feed aquarium fish, dead easy to hatch them and grow them out for a bit then feed the fish.
At least that way you know how they were handled and what your feeding out

Yeah Gnash, correct. In fact I'll be doing that for a few days down the Freo hatchery in a week or so.

I had these frozen ones for a dozen or so small fish I had in an aquarium for a few weeks during winter, so didn't wantr the expense of buying a whole can of cysts.

Hi chillidude,
Sorry to hear of your recent losses. You mentioned in a recent post that you have a few catfish; how are they going?

sorry to hear about your losses

the BB seemed to of put on a fair bit

regards
Matt

Thanks everybody for the commiserations


Hi Tristrin, yeah they're good ! Some are 15-20cm long now so they growing well, form the 5cm they were when I got 'em. Hoping they make it through to be the size of yours one day

you can get glass shrimp from aquablue and we have them in dams and lakes here, the breed like flies and fish love them, will have to go back and read about losses CD, sounds bad
Time to edit since reading about losses, bugger about the BB the are slow growers, shrimp must have been off, but has to be the cause

Hey Nige hope you're safe with the fires

Yeah, stay safe CD...... Hope it;s no where near you...

Yeah, guys definitely safe - thanks.

They're far enough north of us for us to be OK. Feelin' sorry for the people that are in the path though - man thaose are damn strong, consistent easterlies

Good to hear you are ok chillidude. Not knowing the Perth area at all, I was wondering who on the forum may be in the path of the fires. Heard they were in the Perth Hills region and thought "I know someone from there" (well sort of )
Hope anyone else in the area is ok too.

Yeah those easterlies caused by highs slipping under the country are causing onshore winds and the rain dumps over here. Weird freaking weather

Bloody Hell - if it's not fires threatening us, it's a damn rain storm.

We got hit by that storm that hit the Perth hills last week. Thankfully no significant damage, but some neighbours certainly did.

However we did lose power for 30 hours, which meant the backup system (4 hours capacity) didn't really make a dent in the problem.

I got up at 11:30pm and shone the torch into the main FT and saw the BB dead on the bottom and all SPs and catfish gulping at the surface. The mind certainly wasn't operating at full capacity, but I eventuially rigged up something to try and get them through the night and the whole next day.

I had a hose tricking ( 1 litre per minute roughly) into a 500L tank which then drained into the FT, hoping this introduced enough time delay to dechlorinate sufficiently and the draining into the FT would provide some aeration. Simultaneously I rigged up the 30m garden hose to siphon water out of the FT, across the dining/lounge and out the front window and down the hill. Hopefully at about the same rate that the freshwater water was draining in.

Anyway, with that setup I went to bed hoping it would work, as I had bugger all else.

I got up at 6:00am to get ready for work and checked the fish. Success !! The SPs were again swimming around fairly happily under the water, however the catfish were still hanging around the drain inlet looking for the extra oxygen. I managed to nip home at lunchtime and by then even the catfish were happy and swimming around normally.

Picked up a mate's little genny on the way home and got that going around 6:00pm got the pump and aerators going again. Three hours after that the power came back on and everything was ticketyboo !!

The one problem was that I was not able to rig up anything for the 20 SPs in one of the sumps under the GBs. 2 small ones were still struggling, but the 18 others are shown in the photo. The one in the bottom left corner was 30cm long and weighed in at 420g.

Bloody Hell - if it's not fires threatening us, it's a damn rain storm.

We got hit by that storm that hit the Perth hills last week. Thankfully no significant damage, but some neighbours certainly did.

However we did lose power for 30 hours, which meant the backup system (4 hours capacity) didn't really make a dent in the problem.

I got up at 11:30pm and shone the torch into the main FT and saw the BB dead on the bottom and all SPs and catfish gulping at the surface. The mind certainly wasn't operating at full capacity, but I eventuially rigged up something to try and get them through the night and the whole next day.

I had a hose tricking ( 1 litre per minute roughly) into a 500L tank which then drained into the FT, hoping this introduced enough time delay to dechlorinate sufficiently and the draining into the FT would provide some aeration. Simultaneously I rigged up the 30m garden hose to siphon water out of the FT, across the dining/lounge and out the front window and down the hill. Hopefully at about the same rate that the freshwater water was draining in.

Anyway, with that setup I went to bed hoping it would work, as I had bugger all else.

I got up at 6:00am to get ready for work and checked the fish. Success !! The SPs were again swimming around fairly happily under the water, however the catfish were still hanging around the drain inlet looking for the extra oxygen. I managed to nip home at lunchtime and by then even the catfish were happy and swimming around normally.

Picked up a mate's little genny on the way home and got that going around 6:00pm got the pump and aerators going again. Three hours after that the power came back on and everything was ticketyboo !!

The one problem was that I was not able to rig up anything for the 20 SPs in one of the sumps under the GBs. 2 small ones were still struggling, but the 18 others are shown in the photo. The one in the bottom left corner was 30cm long and weighed in at 420g.

Bugger CD that sucks, but nice work keeping the catfish ans silvers alive
i bought a genny as my back up, that way i figured i can just re-fuel it as needed. only issue is if i am at work, i have about 4 hours befor fish start keeling over . .