Backyard Aquaponics
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Went and picked up the fish tonight. Silvers 100% survival rate so far. Everyone please touch wood
One dead cattie. There was no O2 in the catty bag, so I am surprised there weren't more deaths. Overall, very happy indeed with that result.

Steve I see now why you said get TT's. They are soooo cool. As soon as I put them in with the goldies, they got to work on the gravel and gunge on the plants and headed for the rocks (see pic). Their whiskers are brilliant too.

The silvers are very active. There is a huge range of sizes from 30 to 45 or so mm. They started doing laps of the tank as soon as they were put in. They also ate some barra pellets before I put them in the tank.

My BIL took some pics. Here they are.

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cool, huh? gandalf the fish

yep, my silvers and catties were all super active too, no sluggish "where the hell am i and what time is it?" ones

I'm in love with these new fish. I put a cube of blood worms in witht the catties and they went spare!. Also, the silvers took about 3 seconds to get the knack of 1mm barra pellets.

Now I know that silvers food generally has 35% protein and the barra has 45%. Is there any negative effects of feedsing higher protein food?

Didn't someone want know how to count their fish - Monya you're brilliant, just take a snap shot of them and count them easily (cause they are now still )

yep, got BUIL to take a number of shots, have the best one not resized and am in the process of trying to count from the piuc. still hard, but certainly the easiest way

those cats are beautiful! Nearly as good as my PERCH!

Nice one monya, good to see some catfish pics at last. Its going to be interesting seeing how they go over time compared to other species.
I wouldnt think feeding your Perch higher protein pellets would have any adverse effects, infact it may even improve their growth rates. I actually feed my trout on Perch pelletts (with the lower than recommended proteinand cheaper price) and they seem to be doing fine. I do however supplement their diet with Tadpoles so maybe they get some extra protein from them.

I am pretty sure the main reason that silvers are fed lower protien food, is that the protien/fishmeal is one of the most expensive ingredients, and silver perch being omnivirous dont need as high protien lvls as say barra (Just means the silvers might not take in all the protien, meaning more ammonia produced than the lower protien feeds)


The fish look great by the way! Especially the TTs

Higher phosphate wastes from higher than recommended protein nutrient intake of the fish.

So, get some phosphate sucking plants and enjoy.

It will alter your bio-films make up slightly to accomodate the change. Algae will get a foothold easier so careful with light levels. You probably won't even notice except your toms will go ballistic, might even fill out your corn!

Your leafy veg might slow down, most interested to find out that theory.

Fantastic (again) I'm getting even more excited! Great pics.
Unfortunatly my tank has been delayed AGAIN, its going to be at least Thursday before I can pick it up.

no worries. The catties are in the inside aquarium for now, outside, we would never catch them. Just let me know when you want to pick them up.

My BIL (another one) just came and got 25 silvers. It was a 2 man job catching them LOL, one person down one end scaring them down to the person with the net. All is well that ends well.

LOL, and i used to feed my perch trout pellets

Mon, I have made a divider to fit across the tank that is movable, frame is of 20mm conduit and covered with gutter guard (please note the intricate weave used in holding it all together )

I just put it in one end of the tank and move it down herding the fish until the area is just large enough to get the fish net in easily

smarty now make me one to fit in the monster, please