Backyard Aquaponics
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I saw on tv a few years ago where you could buy kits to build them. It came with all the bricks shaped to make a dome one and the chicken wire etc for the render and was heaps cheeper than buying a prebuilt one.

Mmm!

And this my friend is a Bush n Turf!

Garlic and salt marrinated yabbie tail fried in butter on a nice slab of steak with AP condiments, except potato.


Yuuuummmeeeeee

Frankly beautiful and interesting subject reveals a love of nature wishes to you good health and happiness ... Best regards

awesome charlie, i've been wanting to do that for ages just hav'nt been able to get a good enough haul for a while.

Yea I highly recommend it mate. Absolutely beautiful, we just garlic salted the tails and rolled them around in a hot butter/pepper in the pan and poured over the top of the steak...to die for.

Another fantastic one is to peel the tails uncooked....marrinate overnight in garlic salt and chilli flakes....then the next day roll them in flour....dunk in a beer batter then straight in the deep fryer till golden.........unbeatable!!!

Thought about creating a Yabbie cookbook Charlie, these recipes sound excellent.

hmmmm...you got me thinking Lyndon....


I have so many different ways I cook them I probably could make a book you know. Maybe I could give them away with my YabbieBallTM sales.

I made my son a necklace out of yabbie claws once - he loved it, thought he was some kind of yabbie dundee or something......but the missus....not so impressed

Hey Charlie As you are the yabbie expert..

How many Yabbie can I have in a 1000lt IBC that is 3/4 tofull[Water] and has no way for them to escape from..

I'm thinking I can have them in My Settlement tank.. Water in Water out..

Juergen..

Psst a Great idea on a Yabbie Recipe book..

Hey Snow,

I will try and word this carefully....I keep getting myself in trouble lately , there is two ways you can go about stock density with crustaceans......

ok - providing the yabbies are just a simple addition to your already working and cycled system and in your case, using up an available sump tank - which is perfect - I always suggest around 7-10 per square meter floor space with adequate hides. Once again FT volume and filtration is not an issue for you as you have that so my answer is quite simply related to floor area alone.

-but-

If you look at EDU's....well...you can stock a whole lot more....probably in the vacinity of 250-300 yabbies/m2 which is a 1000L IBC...with the right filtration.
Yabbies are hardy creatures; they proliferate in what we would consider murky conditions and are generally good, self maintaining breeders. They can however, be affected by stress. Combined problems of overcrowding, limited feed and bad habitats can cause stress levels to be at a point where they die.
The members that know me - know that I am dead against EDU farming as it is battery farming in its most sickening form. Ive eaten these yabbies and they are far from the value I can catch from a regular dam where natural habitat provailes.

The choice is easy champ.


some pics of EDU

Ok For get about EDU..

So If I get say 10-15 yabbies and Provide a whole heap of cut sections of pipe of various sizes thru and Blind's the yabbie should be fine.. If I get what you are saying is Correct..

Personally I do like the fresh caught ones myself..

and thanks for the information..

Juergen

can you shrink the pics just a little for me? i can almost make out what they actually are

but i agree, battery cages are just wrong.

do you know much/anything on marron stocking levels? im keen to try some but no idea what stocking level per m2

From what I heard... EDU was a failure anyway...

hardly surprising, ive never understood how you can even feed them in those crappy little cages where they cant even move, let alone turn around.

yea that will be fine snow


sorry bout that Dan, the best I could do






Ok I have tiedied everything up for the jounalist today - here is some pics