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Yeah, you need the bigger ones. A mate rang TAFE and he told me they said they'll have 40mm ones available in mid-december.

Unfortunately, at that size, there's a fair chance you'll have to overwinter them and eat them at the end of the 2012/13 summer.

Yep, the same would be true for doing Barra in Victoria...

At least they have a chance at getting advanced Barra, early.... from SA...

Would probably be a better option than small Jades from QLD....

Even then.. I wouldn't recommend either...

Can someone send me the name and number of who to ring at Freo tafe please

Dunno the number OBO - but Google will - ask for any one of;

Bruce Ginbey
Rob Michael
Tony Bart

Yep, got 20 a few days ago. . . . . lost one on the way home, my first death in custody since I started.
A.J

How big were they AJ?

I just picked up 50 myself from GP.
Sizes ranged between 6-9cm.
Lost 3 in the drive home, but had a couple of extra thrown in.
Apparently they are just about to put the prices up to $5 ea

They are also selling advanced Barra at roughly the 15cm mark...
And have rainbow trout available again...just in time for the heat!

Hey Joel, I was a bit picky with them, most around 100mm. . . . the biggest one died on the way home so maybe I should have gone for some smaller ones
I checked the water they came in, not a very nice color of dark purple on the nitrite scale and was a bit whiffy to boot, but they did come from the tanks in the main part of the shop so it's to be expected I spose. I was surprised to see they had Yellow Tail Kingfish swimming around in a tank, imagine how big your tanks would have to be to grow one or two out to 40kgs and how much fun it would be to catch it in your backyard

I wonder where they got the Trout from?

They would be new seasons fry and still very small.

And they are selling them? Coming into summer?

Lol

theres a bloke on gumtree selling barra. from 10 to 15 cm for 7 bux a pop

Was just down at Woodvale Fish and Lily Farm and they had three different size of Silver Perch.
Small ones at $3 I think it was
ones around 6-10cm for $6
and ones around 20cm long at $12.

Wow!
Low supply = high prices

Our SP's from Woodvale Fish & Lily Farm did not do well, I think we have a few left from 60! Also cost way too much. Our Koi from there are doing great though.

The Barra from Freo Tafe are all going strong. $1 each at end of August, they were about 4-5cm. I measured one today and it was already 12cm. Should be a good size come Autumn. I got a call from the guy at the Tafe the other day and they won't have anymore available until late Jan 2012. I hope the price & size are the same but as someone previously mentioned, they will need to be "wintered" to get them to plate size