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Due the the current shortage of silver perch fingerlings in WA, I am looking at other options.

Has anyone tried to go through the process of importing SP from a supplier over east?? Were you successful?? and how hard was it??

Cheers
Sam

Good luck... theoretically they'll need a health certificate... and probably a translocation permit...

Silver Perch will be available in the next couple of weeks anyway...

Im after around 5000 or so

Unless you know something (or someone) that I don't, all anyone has is fry at the moment (or much bigger for ridiculous costs).

While that is not a problem per se, they are not going to get much growing in now before winter, and I would expect very little growth over winter. So I would question whether they would be able to supply enough nutrients to the system.

Plan B at the moment is to get some goldfish (or similar) for a few months until it cools down, and then get some trout fingerlings and go from there.

So you don't want new season fingerlings.. you want advanced stock??

And you want to fly them in from the east coast.....??

Have you talked to Troutman?

Yes I have (just tonight). He is down to SP fry as well.

After the floods last summer... nobody has any over-wintered stock... anywhere...

I managed to get a few hundred a month or so ago... but I only know of 50 left between my suppliers... and they're charging for them..

I want fingerlings, not fry

Define size??

From the information I have, fry are classified as anything smaller than about 25mm. Whereas fingerling are generally 25mm - 50mm.

Most suppliers wont release fingerlings until they're bigger than 25mm....

And the cool Nov/Dec temps have resulted in slow growth.... fingerlings are only just coming on to market here in NSW... whereas they're normally available early December...

Bringing in fish is a highly debated subject... If you ask fisheries they will tell you that bringing in fish from over east requires translocation permits to be applied for and approvals need to be issued before bringing any fish in..

But, I know people in the aquarium industry tent to fly under the radar quite often.

Personally, I'd go the goldfish idea, then get trout over winter. By then there will be advanced silvers available

One of my customers bought some SP's from Greenfingers a few days ago and told me they had plenty. I just rang them and they have about 600 between the two stores, ranging in size from 100mm to 175mm.

or you could just peeponics it till winter??

would adding seasol give some of the trace nutes that pee doesnt?