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I think my compost worms are breeding up a storm. I pulled out a small root ball yesterday and found a worm and 3-4 worm eggs

System is looking great. Looks very similar to the plans I had in my head of my setup. Had a look through the thread but cant find anything on your siphons, to they drain straight into the sump or do they drain into a common larger return pipe?

Reason I ask is some people say that if the siphon is too long it will have issues, have you found that?

I dont have siphons as such just regular stand pipes

Also HSM today, i killed all my SP dont know how though. Will put up pics in a bit. All silvers 5-7cm long.

Ammonia - 1
Nitrate - 5
Nitrite - 0
PH - 7.8 up from 7.4

I havent checked on the SP in the ST for maybe 3 days or so. Most were floating, seems like some died a while ago some recently.

I have added salt to 2-3pp. Trout not affected at all.

Doh

Dunno Zman. Anything else happened to the system lately??

Sorry to hear mate.

matt

Was there a large swing in weather?

SP are pretty hardy, I wouldnt expect a weather swing to harm them vlt.

Nothing else has happened recently, only big change is changing trout feed from 2mm to 7mm but that shouldnt have affected anything.

I havent done anything to the grow beds either.

The weather has been all over the place though. Was sunny one day then freezing for the next 2 but i dont know if that would kill them or not.

Sorry to hear about the fish.

The cold spell would be enough to top them. Where were your SP sourced, locally or from a different climate?

What is covering them, is it ice? Looks a bit weird...

Na its the fungus! seen it plenty of times.

I sourced them from rupert so should be good stock. Sucks that i have had them for 7 months or so and was finally be able to fatten them up

I think this time around i will get some advanced stock which i can harvest before they go idle as it were.