Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

Made a short video of the Barra we have swimming in the system at work..

nice - how old are they from say 100mm? He are mine I got today (30 in total), ive called em all "Barry" since they are all male when young

Nice... only thing missing is the guy in scuba gear giving food to the fishes...

this can be arranged

Did I tell you about the video monitoring we have set up......?

No....

Also how do you keep the water from going green with out a lid on the FT?

None of our systems have lids and none go green, at least not when they are mature. New systems do but not these older ones.

can you mix barra and murray river cod of the same size?

for starting out, is Barra any more difficult /sensitive than perch ?

What sort of temp range can they handle??
Cheers JD

Sorry guys can someone answer my question whether you can mix barra and cod?

Both Barra and Cod... are ambush feeders... and both have big mouths...

If either has a mouth bigger than the other... then they'll probably eat the other...

Overall it's probably best not to mix species, especially not aggressive ones... This doesn't mean you can't, but you can have more issues when you mix them.

What about my question

I found my first batch of SP to be extremely hardy. They travelled 700km by road and have been moved from FT to FT about 6 times in the last year, they have had petrol poured in their FT, they fight through our freezing winters and blistering summers, they had to co-habitate with trout for a number of months and finally survived the great power outagage of 2011. 7 hours without aeration. Dam these boys are tough.

Not sure about Barra sorry.