Backyard Aquaponics
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Get some babies to overwinter in an aquarium. I plan to if I can (another frigging aquarium shish)

ahh your missus should be fine with a 5000L Tank in the lounge man

Bought some barra fillets tonight!!!

i wana move north so i can do barra!

Getting trace readings of ammonia so hooked up my pressure filter to a small 1000L/hr pump to help out. It should filter out fines that I sometimes see floating around in the tank as well.


And the UV is not plugged in

lookin great mantis . . i wish we could do jades over here . . . .

what is they grow out timeframe on them?? 12months or so?

I have read 7 - 8 months but I reckon these will be small plate/smoking size in 5 the way they are growing. The eat more lettuce leaves than my chooks

Been feeding the Jades heaps of food and obviously too much. They fed like crazy this morning and again at lunchtime but I went out just before and they were sulking on the bottom and not coming up to look at me as usual. So I took and ammonia reading and it was 2
Much taking off of water from tank sump outlet and adding buckets of clear aqueous ammonia diluter and its back to 1, and I will not feed till it zeros.
I guess its easy to overfeed Jades

It can be easy to do when they are feeding like crazy... Hows your pH?

Checked that too and it was 6 so shell grit went in under the gb inlets and some buried in the cf beds. But I guess if the ph is low then ammonia is less of a problem. Will keep monitoring and see what happens.

When I first found Aquaponics Forums about 2 years ago...
rule #1 - DO NOT OVER FEED THE FISH
Hope you can rectify the situation Mantis.

Regards - ColinW

(I think I have been over cautious feeding my Silvers)

Yeah , when the fish just keep on eating its hard to say no

My jades are hungary little buggers

Ammonia back to trace amount this morning and ph 6.4 so fed them like one 6mm pellet each

Ammonia back to zero tonight and the jades are very happy to be fed




And after the feed



This is exactly 4 months since I got them as 40-50mm fingerlings.

Night time temps for next week 5 5 7 6 10 13. Put two layers of bubble wrap around the fish tank and a towel around the canister filter which I will leave on tonight but will turn the water pump off to the grow beds. Hope the 300W aquarium heater can keep the temp up.

Hope it all works mate!!!

they are looking great!!!! feed like mad i wish i had fish that fed like that!!!! i miss my trout.