Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

i burned mine

What your veggies or chainsaw

the wipper snipper, but i didn't really

"Wipper Snipper" = "Weed Wacker" = "String Cutter" ???

Don't you dare hurt those lovely plants!!!

Whats wrong with using the Chainsaw
Isn't that a standard Item for the AP Tool kit.

Last night we had our first good rain went to look at fish this morning they seem to be in holiday mode swiming slowly some around the top [not gasping] put in food not interested at present adding a feww litres [500 ] water any ideas. Water tests ph 6.4 al the others 0

Did you get much rain F&F. I was at Blackwood yesterday and it bucketed down, gutter over flow etc, and it was heading your way. I thought my tank would fill on its own, got home later to find it went around our house...

The fish looks happy enough (maybe it 'knows' it on the menu?), is it around 20-25cm? yummy (licks lips)

further to my earlier post went back 1/2 hr later and could see one strugling so got net and got 60 yes 60 dead ones 10 live ones and put them in hostital tank with air stone with 6 gold fish went and had coffee to steady nerves went back 10 more dead and 2 goldies dont know what happpend 2 sonarios the rain washed over the treated pine but its been hosed dozens of times and its covered with tin second one water washed threw glass house and splashed into tank the fish seem to have lost there grey colour they look blotchyHELP

oh no! I don't know, but sorry for your losses

damn, F&F, I know when my ph gets to that range, the fish stop eating, so that may be the first cause of them not eating. Otherwise, how much rain would have got in the tanks? They aren't covered are they? Any more info about what may be different today than yesterday?

what is in the glass house that could have upset the water?

How much did the pH change from the rain?

Are you close to the fires or did the weather come from where the fires are?

Feel for you man, that's an awful thing to happen.

monya the only difference was rain the tanks are covered with tin so i dont think it was splashing from the treated pine water flowed threw the glass house the last 3 years i used tomato dust and caulieflower dust in there the water flowed threw and then a bit may have seeped into the return to the fish tank
aquaddict the fires are 2 1/2 hrs away yes the rain did come from there

wish I could help you, seems the answer is somewhere in your posts. Did you have any survivors?

Sounds like only the goldies survived.
Can you post some pics of the demised? That might help, but from the sounds of it, they all bit it pretty quickly. That, and the not eating, would seem to be a poison of some sort.

I'm very sorry.
Try to think of the opening credits of The Six Million Dollar Man, and keep-up the good fight me brudda.